JAKARTA - INDONESIA'S president said on Saturday said he would overturn changes to voting regulations so that voters can pick both the candidate and the political party on the ballot papers in next year's general elections.
MANILA - FIVE air traffic controllers who were late or absent from work a day after Christmas were suspended after two flights were forced to circle a southern airport because no one was manning the control tower, Philippine civil aviation officials said on Saturday.
JAKARTA - MARTA Karouw was one of about 2,000 Indonesians who gathered in the city of Manado, on the northern tip of Indonesia's Sulawesi island, on Saturday morning to practice and prepare for the unthinkable - a huge tsunami.
The drill comes one day after the fourth anniversary of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami that smashed coastal villages in parts of Asia on Dec 26, 2004, killing about 230,000 people.
JAKARTA - INDONESIAN police committed human rights violations during a deadly crackdown on protesters in a land dispute this month that killed at least one child, the country's rights watchdog said on Saturday.
