Indonesia: Train ‘Surfer’ Crackdown By Authorities Begins Again
People ride on top of a crowded commuter train in Jakarta, Indonesia Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try to stop commuters from illegally riding the roofs of trains – hosing down the scofflaws with red paint, threatening them with dogs and appealing for help from religious leaders. Now the authorities have an intimidating and possibly More...
School brawls take lives
Fight club: In this file photo, students of a junior high school arm themselves with stones they took from a damaged sidewalk. They brawled with students from another school in Jelambar, West Jakarta. The exchange More...
Ex-patients continue to fight stigma
New skills: A former leprosy sufferer is retrained in carpentry. JP/Tarko Sudiarno Housewife Sriyatmo has spent most of her life struggling for respect and dignity. Since first being diagnosed with leprosy at the More...
PKS mulls Tifatul as one of its presidential candidates
Tifatul Sembiring The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) is considering party member Tifatul Sembiring as one of its presidential candidates. The party has decided to announce several names of presidential candidates More...
Police to charge Apriyani with murder
Apriyani was under the influence of alcohol and drugs at the time of the crash The Jakarta Police will charge the driver of a Daihatsu Xenia who ran into 12 pedestrians on Jan. 15, killing nine and critically injuring More...