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U.S. Embassy Jakarta Official website Site IndexAmerican Citizen ServicesVisa InformationU.S. Policy: Asia PacificInformation Resource CenterBahasa Indonesia --- Monday, April 21, 2008 U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Meets with Top Officials in Indonesia. Jakarta, April 14 -- U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Mike Leavitt met with President Suslio Bambang Yudhoyono and other senior Indonesian Government officials today to review efforts supported by the U.S. Government in Indonesia to battle malaria, polio, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS; joint U.S.-Indonesia research initiatives; and Indonesia’s progress to prepare for a pandemic influenza. (complete text)Indonesia’s Journey in Democracy by Ambassador Cameron R. Hume From The Jakarta Post, Saturday, April 12, 2008 Indonesia is one of the world’s remarkable success stories for freedom and democracy. This month Indonesians will hold the latest in a series of local elections conducted since the onset of democracy. The second set of democratic national elections will follow in 2009. Indonesian media and civil society exercise their watchdog role, battling corruption and crying out against inequities. When one looks at the speed of progress that Indonesia has made over its first decade of democracy, in many ways it exceeds the United States’ initial transition into a national democracy over 200 years ago. (complete text) In Memoriam: Ambassador David Newsom 1918 - 2008 April 6, 2008 -- David D. Newsom, a career diplomat who was Ambassador to Indonesia died on Sunday in Charlottesville, Va., where he had lived in recent years. He was 90. He served as ambassador to Libya from 1965 to 1969 and assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 1969 to 1973. He was ambassador to Indonesia from 1973 to 1979 and held several other overseas posts. U.S. EMBASSY PRESS RELEASES...