No details were disclosed. The renegotiation attempt is part of a larger government effort to redraw natural resource contracts across several sectors. Many contracts were forged during the Suharto era, and the government is seeking more favorable terms.

Yesterday I discussed the issue I have about receiving from Financial Times ten emails over six and a half hours with precisely the same headline and story about the Greek sovereign debt resolution attempts being dubious thereby leading to a weak Euro. ...

Favored dictators are supported as long as they can maintain control (as in the major oil states). When that is no longer possible, then discard them and try to restore the old regime as fully as possible (as in Tunisia and Egypt). The general pattern...

After steep rises in commodity prices over the last decade, Indonesian politicians have for years wanted to improve deals with mining companies, many of which were made in the era of former autocratic leader Suharto, but this is the first renegotiation...

The FPI began in 1998 as a disparate mix of militia and gangs mobilized by the military and the police to counter the student-led reform movement that helped bring down long-running dictator Suharto, who resigned that year amid widespread protests. The...

Sadat in Egypt) who moved to seek accommodation with their neighbors, embraced the United States, and opened their economies to flows of international finance, investment, and trade. Both countries experienced three decades of authoritarian rule under a...

Favored dictators are supported as long as they can maintain control (as in the major oil states). When that is no longer possible, then discard them and try to restore the old regime as fully as possible (as in Tunisia and Egypt). The general pattern...

Favored dictators are supported as long as they can maintain control (as in the major oil states). When that is no longer possible, then discard them and try to restore the old regime as fully as possible (as in Tunisia and Egypt). The general pattern...

Favored dictators are supported as long as they can maintain control (as in the major oil states). When that is no longer possible, then discard them and try to restore the old regime as fully as possible (as in Tunisia and Egypt). The general pattern...

Favored dictators are supported as long as they can maintain control (as in the major oil states). When that is no longer possible, then discard them and try to restore the old regime as fully as possible (as in Tunisia and Egypt). The general pattern...

Back in May 2007, I stumbled across online sketches at the website of a Kansas architectural firm hired to build a monster U.S. embassy-cum-citadel-cum-Greater-Middle-Eastern command center on 104 acres in the middle of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. They...

MANDALAY, Myanmar- When officials first turned up demanding Chen Ching-feng remove the Chinese sign above her clothing shop in Myanmar's biggest northern city, she ignored them. "When they came back a few days later and asked why the Chinese was still...

Middle classes in Singapore and Malaysia complained little about the strictures imposed by their governments. The conservative nationalism of China’s middle-class beneficiaries of post-Mao economic growth is well-documented. Until the Asian financial...

The resulting turmoil in Indonesia resulted in the overthrow of the notorious dictator President Suharto, who had borrowed heavily from the international community – including the World Bank – to fund his regime. The strict conditions placed on a...

At the time of Suharto’s death, Yudhoyono spoke of the former dictator as a national hero, asking delegates at an international conference on corruption to acknowledge his passing with a minute of silence. The ironic act indicates that perhaps the...

Humpuss Sea Transport (HST) on Jan 20, appointing liquidators for any proceeds from asset sales to be paid to Liberia-based Linsen International Limited, the statement said. Humpuss, which transports oil, gas, coal and chemicals, is controlled by Mr...

Humpuss Sea Transport (HST) on January 20, appointing liquidators for any proceeds from asset sales to be paid to Liberia-based Linsen International Limited, the statement said. Humpuss, which transports oil, gas, coal and chemicals, is controlled by...

Police are investigating an incident involving Pandji Adhikumoro Trihatmodjo, the grandson of the late President Suharto, after he reportedly assaulted a man with a drinking glass at a South Jakarta bar. South Jakarta Police chief Sr. Comr. Imam...

Nurcholish Madjid (d. 2005) was an Indonesian Muslim modernist whose career as a scholar and activist started with his role in HMI — the Islamic Association of University Students in Indonesia. As a young Muslim activist during the authoritarian rules...