| top news | No Reshuffle for Democrats, But a Pledge to Improve Sentul, West Java. The Democratic Party wound up its national coordination meeting here on Sunday leaving its leadership unchanged in the wake of recent troubles and embarrassments, but did pledge to abide by a chastening 10-point charter to be clean and disciplined in the future. Markus Junianto Sihaloho | 12:56 AM July 25, 2011  Democratic Party Chairman Anas Urbaningrum looks on as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, head of the party's advisory board, arrives to address the party's national coordination meeting in Sentul. Party leaders were asked to pledge a 10-point charter for improvement after recent scandal. (Reuters Photo/Supri) |
 | 'He Walked Around the Island as if He Had Absolute Power' It has been a rite of passage for Norway's liberal elite for decades: a summer camp set on a verdant Nordic isle called Utoya, where this week hundreds of young people gathered to meet government ministers, dive into election strategy sessions and maybe find a little summer romance. | 11:23 PM July 24, 2011 A Muddy Misery for Merah Putih in Turkmenistan Indonesian football fans are used to poor pitches, but even by modest standards Merah Putih's first match under its new coach, a 1-1 draw away to Turkmenistan, was more mud than magic. Sandy Pramuji | 1:51 AM July 25, 2011 In Today's Newspaper In Aceh, Elections Approach Under Cloud of Political Violence While the deadly tsunami of 2004 may have ushered in a long-delayed peace between the Indonesian military and the separatist Free Aceh Movement, a recent wave of violence is threatening to swamp the uneasy cease-fire between rival factions of supposedly retired revolutionaries and the government. With regional elections planned for November, Aceh has seen a distressing spike in the type of political assaults and assassinations that were supposed to be a thing of the past. Find out why the violence persists in the print edition of the Globe today, or subscribe to receive the paper every day.
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| | business | Clinton Gives Pep Talk to Indonesia's Entrepreneurs Nusa Dua. Recounting childhood years when she helped her father run a fabric print shop, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged an audience of Indonesian entrepreneurs here to think big and chase their dreams. S.K. Zainuddin | 7:33 PM July 24, 2011  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke about the importance of entrepreneurs in Bali on Saturday. (EPA Photo/Adi Weda) |
 | Carmakers to Hit 2 Million Mark by 2018: Gaikindo Annual car production in Indonesia, Southeast Asia's second-biggest automobile market, is forecast to reach two million units in 2018 on increasing demand and rising household income, according to industry representatives. Shirley Christie & Antara | 9:56 PM July 24, 2011 Local Miners Anticipate Heated Global Coal Market Next Year Global coal prices may rise more than 5 percent next year as surging demand from China and India benefits mining companies like Berau Coal and Indo Tambangraya Megah, an industry group said on Friday. Ririn Radiawati Kusuma | 9:03 PM July 24, 2011 Motorcycle Taxi Start-Up Go-Jek Steers a Course to Success Go-Jek Indonesia, a start-up that manages a transportation and delivery service by motorcycle taxi, has drawn several local and foreign investors after it won a $10,000 award from the Global Entrepreneurship Program — Indonesia. Shirley Christie | 7:29 PM July 24, 2011 |  |
| | sports | Rio Haryanto's Tire Gamble Pays Off in Wet GP3 Race After struggling in the past four legs of the GP3 Series, Rio Haryanto returned to the spotlight over the weekend, braving the rain to take out Race 1 of the German event at Nurburgring. Wimbo Satwiko | 9:40 PM July 24, 2011  German GP3 winner Rio Haryanto was the only driver who stuck with slick tires on a wet Sunday. |
 | Football: Indonesia Gets Edge With Vital Away Goal Indonesia overcame its off-field issues to hold Turkmenistan to a 1-1 away draw on Saturday night and grab the advantage in their 2014 World Cup qualifier. Sandy Pramuji & Wimbo Satwiko | 9:13 PM July 24, 2011 Park Wins Duel in the Pool, China Seals Diving Sweep Shanghai. Olympic champion Park Tae-hwan won his 400-meter freestyle duel with China's Sun Yang in resounding fashion on Sunday as the world championship hosts clinched a historic sweep of all 10 diving titles. | 10:05 PM July 24, 2011 Bin Hammam, Who Strived to Be FIFA King, Vows to Fight Ban Zurich. Banned from football for life for attempting to bribe officials to vote for him in the FIFA presidential election, Mohamed bin Hammam paid a heavy price for wanting to usurp his former ally Sepp Blatter. | 4:59 PM July 24, 2011 |  |
| | life & times | The NII Inside Out: A Sociologist Goes Undercover Dewi Triana found herself sitting cross-legged in a small room listening to sermons denouncing Indonesia and exhorting her to help make the country an Islamic state. Lisa Siregar | 6:08 PM July 24, 2011  The Al-Zaytun Islamic Boarding School in Indramayu, West Java has been alleged to be the center of the outlawed Indonesian Islamic State movement (NII). (JG Photo/Nivell Rayda) |
 | Jakarta Journo: Questions Must Go Beyond Bread Jingle The recent televised interviews with rogue former Democratic Party treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin were intriguing for a number of reasons, from the allegations he made about big-name politicians to the mysterious bread jingle heard in the background. Armando Siahaan | 7:00 PM July 24, 2011 Batik Gets the Denim Treatment For someone just two years out of college, Ivan Kurniawan has big ambitions. Chief among them is a plan to reinvent batik, Indonesia's most famous textile. Lauren Zumbach | 7:01 PM July 24, 2011 |  |
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