The U . S . Embassy in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, is being closed because of " credible information " about a threat to the compound, State Department spokesman Philip Reeker said Tuesday.
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Wearing black masks and armed with daggers and homemade bombs, unidentified assailants stormed a Christian neighborhood in the religiously divided capital of Indonesia's Maluku province Sunday stabbing and burning to death 14 people, police said.
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In Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, as many as 6, 000 demonstrators rallied outside the heavily guarded U . S . and British embassies to protest the U . S .-British military attacks on Afghanistan.
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A mob stabbed and burned to death at least 12 Christians in the religiously divided capital of Indonesia's Maluku province Sunday, witnesses said, in the worst violence since a fragile peace was forged earlier this year.
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Garuda's last major crash was on April 4, 1987, when a DC-9 jetliner crashed after being struck by lightning while trying to land in Medan, the capital of Indonesia's North Sumatra province.
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Meanwhile, the U . S . Embassy in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, is being closed because of " credible information " regarding a threat to the compound, State Department spokesman Philip Reeker said Tuesday.
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Ethnic violence that has killed at least 270 people on Borneo island spread Monday to the capital of Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province, where armed gangs of indigenous men burned the homes of settlers from another part of the country.
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Among those driven from Akoan, a remote hamlet in the district of Waropko, were two local public works workers, Antara said, quoting Gumalkin, a public works officer in Jayapura, capital of Indonesia's Irian Jaya province.
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Police said R . S . was a resident of Jakarta but was born in Ambon, the capital of Indonesia's Maluku islands, where a three year conflict between Christians and Muslims has left nearly 10, 000 people dead.
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In 1974, Based on the " Act No . 5 of 1974 " relating to the Fundamentals of Regional Government, Jakarta was confirmed as the capital of Indonesia and one of Indonesia's ( then ) 26 provinces.
