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Indonesian workers at Freeport-McMoRan's largest gold and copper mine ended a three-month strike Wednesday after the company agreed to a 37 percent wage hike and improved benefits.
Villagers living on the Indonesian side of Borneo killed at least 750 endangered orangutans in a year, some to protect crops from being raided and others for their meat, a new survey shows.
Thousands of striking workers blockaded roads leading to Freeport-McMoRan Cooper & Gold Inc.'s mine in easternmost Indonesia on Tuesday, preventing food, medicine and other supplies from reaching holed-up staffers and their families.
A helicopter chartered by an Australian mining company slammed into a mountain in eastern Indonesia, killing all 10 passengers and crew, the head of the search and rescue team said Thursday.
A helicopter carrying 10 people, including four Australians, lost contact with authorities minutes after takeoff Wednesday in eastern Indonesia, police and airport officials said.
Indonesia is preparing to greenlight the construction of several highways through a park that has one of the world's few viable populations of wild tigers, conservationists warned Thursday.
She arrived in Saudi Arabia a high-spirited 23-year-old, eager to start work as a maid to help support her family back home. Four months later, Sumiati was Indonesia's poster child for migrant abuse, alone and staring vacantly from a hospital bed, her face sliced and battered.
Indonesia's president has a solution for the country's overcrowded, gridlocked and flood-prone capital: Move it.
The discovery of three dead Javan rhinos has intensified efforts to save one of the world's most endangered mammals from extinction, with an electric fence being built Monday around a new sanctuary and breeding ground.
An Indonesian court Tuesday sentenced an in-law of the man once reputed to be Southeast Asia's most-wanted terror suspect to eight years in jail for helping his relative elude authorities until his death in a shootout last year.
Torrential rains triggered a series of landslides on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 residents and burying many more, a local official said Monday.
Plans to open branches of a Malaysian "Polygamy Club" in Indonesia have upset women's groups and religious leaders in the world's most populous Muslim nation, who say the search for multiple wives should be handled privately — not by a matchmaking service.
An Indonesian court sentenced a Singaporean man to 18 years in prison on terrorism charges Tuesday. Mohammad Hasan bin Saynudin, who claims to have met Osama bin Laden on many occasions, was convicted of plotting to kill a teacher and planning a deadly attack on a bar frequented by Western tourists.
A Singaporean who was a courier for Osama bin Laden before the Sept. 11 attacks went on trial in Indonesia on Tuesday with nine other suspected Islamic militants.
Barack Obama's election as America's first black president unleashed a renewed love for the United States after years of dwindling goodwill, and many said Wednesday that U.S. voters had blazed a trail that minorities elsewhere could follow.
Anti-terrorism police seized bomb-making materials and a large cache of weapons and ammunition during a raid Tuesday on a house in the Indonesian capital, police and a local television station reported.
Rescuers recovered all 18 bodies Saturday from the wreckage of an Indonesian military plane that crashed into a jungle-clad mountain, a military official said.
Indonesian police arrested a former top intelligence official Thursday for suspected involvement in the 2004 killing of a human rights activist poisoned on an airline flight.
Indonesia's Supreme Court overturned the conviction of a notorious militia leader accused in attacks that left about 1,000 people dead following East Timor's 1999 independence vote.
Indonesia, the nation hardest hit by bird flu, has recorded its 100th human death as the virus picks up speed across Asia.
Pakistani security forces arrested hundreds of Islamic hard-liners, virtually sealed off the capital and used gunfire and tear gas Sunday to quell protests against caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
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