Passengers Injured After Man Claimed There’s a Bomb on BoardIndonesia ExpatMay 29, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMay 29, 20180At least 10 passengers on a flight preparing to take off from Borneo island were injured, most of them with...
Wednesday Rate Hike Possible, Says Bank IndonesiaIndonesia ExpatMay 28, 2018May 28, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMay 28, 2018May 28, 20180Bank Indonesia Governor Perry Warjiyo indicated on Monday that the central bank could raise its benchmark seven-day reverse repo rate...
Passenger Removed After Bomb Joke, Causes Almost 3-Hour DelayIndonesia ExpatMay 28, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMay 28, 20180Private carrier Lion Air removed a passenger identified as YS, 25, on Sunday from a flight departing from Soekarno-Hatta International...
Bogor Residents Struck by Food PoisoningIndonesia ExpatMay 27, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMay 27, 20180Dozens of residents in Bogor, West Java, have reportedly been struck by food poisoning. More than 50 residents of Tanah...
Indonesia Passes Tougher Anti-Terrorism LawIndonesia ExpatMay 25, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMay 25, 20180Less than two weeks after a wave of attacks including three separate bombings at churches in Indonesia’s second largest city...
Go-Jek To Expand To Four Southeast Asian CountriesIndonesia ExpatMay 24, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMay 24, 20180Motorcycle-taxi service PT Go-Jek Indonesia will invest $500 million to expand its operations in Southeast Asia, revving up competition in...
New Regulation Limits Foreign Ownership of Insurance Companies to 80 PercentIndonesia ExpatMay 23, 2018March 25, 2019 by Indonesia ExpatMay 23, 2018March 25, 20190The government has issued Government Regulation No. 14/2018 on foreign ownership of insurance companies, setting a maximum foreign ownership of...
Jakarta: MRT Trial Run Scheduled for DecemberIndonesia ExpatMay 23, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMay 23, 20180The development of Jakarta’s MRT is on track and it is set to enter a trial run in December before...
Alert Raised on Mount Merapi After Another EruptionIndonesia ExpatMay 22, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMay 22, 20180Mount Merapi, located in the border of Central Java and Yogyakarta Provinces, erupted on Tuesday at 1.47am local time. The...
Impatient Child Torches Family HomeIndonesia ExpatMay 21, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMay 21, 20180A 16-year-old boy in Jambon, Ponorogo, East Java, burned down his family house after his parents told him he would...
Mount Merapi Erupts AgainIndonesia ExpatMay 21, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMay 21, 20180Another phreatic eruption occurred at Mount Merapi in Magelang, Central Java, at 1.25am on Monday, May 21. The eruption, which...
Three Intersections Closed in Jakarta To Help Ease TrafficIndonesia ExpatMay 19, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMay 19, 20180The Jakarta Transportation Agency is conducting a trial run of the closure of three intersections on Jl. Mampang Prapatan Raya,...
Death Penalty Demanded For Cleric Accused of Ordering Multiple Terror AttacksIndonesia ExpatMay 18, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMay 18, 20180Indonesian prosecutors on Friday demanded death for radical Islamic cleric Aman Abdurrahman who is accused of ordering attacks including a...
Countries Issue Travel Advisories to its Citizens in Indonesia Following Terror AttacksIndonesia ExpatMay 18, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMay 18, 20180Twelve countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia, have reportedly issued travel advisories for their citizens...
Riau Police Headquarters Attacked by Sword-Wielding MenIndonesia ExpatMay 16, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMay 16, 20180Indonesian police on Wednesday shot dead four sword-wielding men who attacked Riau’s police headquarters in Sumatra, killing one officer, the...
Four Children Orphaned After Surabaya and Sidoarjo BombingsIndonesia ExpatMay 15, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMay 15, 20180At least four children belonging to two of the three families behind the string of bombings in Surabaya and Sidoarjo,...
Another Family of Five Bomb Surabaya Police HeadquartersIndonesia ExpatMay 14, 2018May 14, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMay 14, 2018May 14, 20180A family of five riding on two motorbikes carried out a suicide bombing at Surabaya Police headquarters on Monday morning,...
Jokowi Demands House to Finish Revising Terrorism LawIndonesia ExpatMay 14, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMay 14, 20180President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has demanded that the House of Representatives conclude the revision of the Terrorism Law immediately, or...
Surabaya: 11 Dead, Dozens Injured After Suicide Bombers Attack Three ChurchesIndonesia ExpatMay 13, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMay 13, 20180Suicide bombers suspected to be from an Islamic State-inspired group killed at least 11 people and wounded 40 in attacks...
Mount Merapi in Central Java Erupts, Residents Within 5km Radius Asked to EvacuateIndonesia ExpatMay 11, 2018May 11, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMay 11, 2018May 11, 20180Mount Merapi in Central Java experienced what officials call a phreatic eruption, which is a phenomenon caused by the heating...
Multiple Cases of Dead Drivers Reported in JakartaIndonesia ExpatMay 10, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMay 10, 20180The Jakarta Police, through the force’s Instagram account @tmcpoldametro, announced on Tuesday that they had found a Blue Bird taxi...