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Indonesia's Aceh Holds First Transvestite Contest
Feb 14th, 2010 - CBS News
jakarta, indonesia (ap) - the first beauty pageant for transvestites has drawn dozens of contestants in aceh, a semiautonomous indonesian province that follows strict islamic law. the antara news agency reported sunday that 19-year-old zifana
Ex-Corruption Chief in Indonesia Sentenced in Murder Plot
Feb 11th, 2010 - New York Times
jakarta, indonesia - an indonesian court on thursday found the country's former anticorruption czar and three other men guilty of orchestrating the murder of a prominent business executive, although the court backed off from demands by prosecutors
Suspect on trial in Indonesia hotel bombings
Feb 10th, 2010 - Yahoo! News
jakarta, indonesia – an alleged islamist militant being tried on charges of harboring terrorists behind deadly twin hotel bombings in the indonesian capital claimed wednesday that he had helped craft a plot to assassinate the president.
amirLiquor laced with methanol kills 8 on Indonesia's main island of Java
Feb 9th, 2010 - WashingtonExaminer
jakarta, indonesia - indonesian police say eight people have died after drinking liquor laced with methanol on the country's main island of java. police maj. syaiful anwar said tuesday the victims bought the drink from the same stall friday. no one
Indonesia says understands Obama trip delay
Mar 19th, 2010 - Reuters
jakarta (reuters) - indonesia understands the reason for president barack obama's last-minute cancellation of his visit to jakarta and bali, officials in the southeast asian nation said on friday. but ordinary indonesians expressed disappointment
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2:17Indonesia quake devastation - 1 Oct 09
As rescue teams pull mangled bodies and injured people from debris, the scale of death, destruction and injury caused by a major earthquake in the Indonesian coastal city of Padang is beginning to emerge. Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen ...
Indonesia from WikiPedia:
The Republic of Indonesia (pronounced /??ndo??ni?zi?/ or /??nd??ni???/) (Indonesian: Republik Indonesia) is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia comprises 17,508 islands. With a population of around 230 million people, it is the world's fourth most populous country, and has the world's largest population of Muslims. Indonesia is a republic, with an elected legislature and president. The nation's capital city is Jakarta. The country shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia. Other neighboring countries include Singapore, Philippines, Australia, and the Indian territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
The Indonesian archipelago has been an important trade region since at least the seventh century, when Srivijaya and then later Majapahit traded with China and India.
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