VOI News 20:00 WIB, GMT+7, 16.02.2012

 

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has stressed the need for ASEAN member countries to harmonize their legal systems and laws as part of the process to form an ASEAN community.

 

The Islam Defenders Front or FPI, a hardliner group that has been under the spotlight recently as its violent image has begun to receive pushback from other community groups, has committed to changing its ways.

 

A Indonesian presidential staff member is trying to convince three ministries to support a team of scientists who want to look into rumors of pyramids lying beneath West Java's Mount Sadahurip and Mount Padang.

 

Illegal logging in the protected Bukit Daun forest, Bengkulu, threatens the habitat of the world's largest flower, the Raflesia Arnoldi, a botanical researcher said.