A backhoe loads tons of coal to a heavy-duty truck at Adaro Energy's site in Kalimantan. The company is planning to expand into green-energy business starting this year through its subsidiary Adaro Power.

Hyundai ends Indonesia aluminium deal after climate campaign by K-pop fans

At the time of the signing, Hyundai said it expected to procure aluminium from Adaro that meets the automaker's carbon neutralization policy amid growing demand for aluminium among global automakers.

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What If Lab: Public space made possible at Kampung Susun Kunir

An urban exhibition showcases the perseverance of Kampung Kunir residents in defending their neighborhood. Turning the demolition of their homes into a low-cost apartment complex. ...

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Lessons (not) learned: A critical reflection on the COVID-19 pandemic

The "lucky” ones – or the more privileged among us – may look back into the first two years of the pandemic through our social media feeds with a sense of bittersweet nostalgia. How can we forget the first days of remote working and studying from home, or that moment when we could only wave at our relatives during religious holidays? ...

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Hoping for a reopening: A sign and flowers flowers are seen on March 5, 2024, in front of the Jakarta Planetarium at Taman Ismail Marzuki compound in Cikini, Central Jakarta. The flowers were sent by astronomy enthusiasts who hope for the reopening of the planetarium.

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Jakartans hope for reopening of Jakarta Planetarium

The Jakarta Planetarium and Observatory is still closed despite the September 2022 reopening after renovation of Taman Ismail Marzuki, where the planetarium is located.

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Meta shuts monitoring tool CrowdTangle in election year

The tech giant says CrowdTangle will be unavailable after August 14, less than three months before the US election. The Palo Alto company plans to replace it with a new tool that researchers say lacks the same functionality, and which news organizations will largely not have access to.

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A clock tower in Beirut’s Jdeideh district indicates the time on March 26, 2023 after Lebanon’s government announced a decision to delay daylight savings. The caretaker government announced on March 23, 2023 its decision to delay rolling clocks forward until April 20, instead of the last week of March as is usually the case in Lebanon and much of the northern hemisphere.

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Climate change is messing with how we measure time: study

In a strange twist, global warming could even help out timekeepers by delaying the need for history's first "negative leap second" by three years, a study published on Wednesday suggested.

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Travis Scott performing live music show concert on night club stage in Moscow, Russia on Dec. 6, 2014.

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Song lyrics are getting simpler, more repetitive: study

Lyrics have also become angrier and more self-obsessed over the last 40 years, the study found, reinforcing the opinions of cranky ageing music fans everywhere.

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A handout picture released by the European Space Agency (ESA) on July 11, 2019 shows an artist’s impression of the peculiar thin disc of material circling a supermassive black hole at the heart of the spiral galaxy NGC 3147, located 130 million light-years away. Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed an unexpected thin disc of material encircling a supermassive black hole at the heart of the spiral galaxy NGC 3147, located 130 million light-years away. The presence of the black hole disc in such a low-luminosity active galaxy has astronomers surprised. Black holes in certain types of galaxies such as NGC 3147 are considered to be starving as there is insufficient gravitationally captured material to feed them regularly

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Milky Way's black hole surrounded by strong magnetic fields

A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) for the first time showed in polarised light a ring of magnetic fields surrounding the Sagittarius A* black hole.

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Cultural preservation: United States Embassy Cultural Attaché Emily Yasmin Norris (right) shakes hands with Putu Eka Gunayasa from BasaIbu Wiki on March 7, 2024, prior to the launch of two digital dictionaries at @america in Jakarta. The US Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation funded the Basasulsel Wiki and Basa Kalimantan Wiki digital dictionary projects.

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Groups preserve regional languages through digital dictionaries

Digital dictionaries for two Indonesian regional languages have recently been launched in an effort to stem regional language loss, especially among young people.

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US artist Richard Serra stands on April 08, 2014 in front of his new permanent art installation consisting of four steel plates that are about 15 metres (49 feet) tall that were unveiled in Qatar.

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US sculptor Richard Serra, known for towering minimalism, dies at 85

His strikingly large pieces are installed all over the world, from Paris museums to the Qatari desert, and have sometimes sparked controversy over their imposing nature.

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A musician walks with his guitar on Broadway in Downtown Nashville on March 13, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee in the United States. Megastar Beyonce's highly anticipated country album, out on March 29, 2024, has cast a spotlight on efforts by Black performers – a vital part of the genre's history – to create a more inclusive Nashville.

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Beyonce album highlights the Black women changing country music

Megastar Beyonce's highly anticipated country album, out on March 29, 2024, has cast a spotlight on efforts by Black performers to create a more inclusive Nashville, the heartland of American country music.

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Glass jars containing various kinds of coffee beans are lined up in the display room of Dharma Boutique Roastery in Semarang, Central Java, on November 28, 2023.

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Dharma Boutique Roastery: A coffee commitment that survives the test of time

Third-wave coffee, which has revolutionized the nation's palate of its joe, has given another lease of life to a family roasting business in Semarang, Central Java.

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Culture

Must different political choices lead to heartbreak?

Political discussions can turn personal, antagonizing loved ones.

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Midnight release: Taylor Swift performs onstage during the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) 2022 Nashville Songwriter Awards at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sept. 20, when she won NSAI Songwriter-Artist of the Decade. Swift’s latest album Midnight was released on Friday and crashed Spotify in the process.

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Global music business sees 10.2% growth in 2023: industry

The biggest artist in the world was -- no surprise -- Taylor Swift, according to the annual report by International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which represents global record companies.

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Sydney Sweeney attends Sydney Sweeney In Conversation With Josh Horowitz at 92NY on March 20, 2024 in New York City.

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Sydney Sweeney takes on double duty for horror 'Immaculate'

The "Euphoria" and "The White Lotus" actress plays young American nun, Sister Cecilia, who enrols in a convent in rural Italy. While she struggles to understand what seems off about the establishment, she suddenly finds herself pregnant.

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Frontman of Jakarta-based indie rock band Sore, Firza Achmar Paloh, also known as Ade Paloh, died on March 19, 2024.

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Fellow musicians mark passing of Sore's Ade Paloh

The vocalist and left-handed guitarist was best known for writing and arranging some of the most memorable baroque pop compositions from the early 2000s recorded for the band's critically acclaimed albums Centralismo and Ports of Lima.

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Singer, songwriter and lyricist Firza Achmar Paloh, also known as Ade Paloh, died on March 19, 2024, of an unspecified illness.

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Ade Paloh, early aughts indie rock icon, dies at 48

Sore Band confirmed the death on Tuesday in an Instagram post.

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A taxi driver walks past a taxi parked in central Sydney on March 18, 2024. Australian taxi drivers impacted by the rise of ridesharing giant Uber have won US$178 million in compensation, lawyers said on March 18 after settling a gruelling legal battle.

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Australian taxi drivers win $178 million payout from Uber

More than 8,000 taxi drivers and hire car owners banded together to launch legal action in 2019, arguing they lost substantial income when Uber entered Australia in 2012.

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“Banda“ painted by QMR ver Huell and Jobard in 1824, shows the Dutch Fort Belgica-Eiland on Banda Neira Island in present day Maluku province.

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New book offers new perspective on Banda massacre

A recently published book captures not only VOC governor-general Jan Pieterszoon Coen's cruelty in his attempt to monopolize the nutmeg trade in Banda, but also emphasizes the side of the story from the Bandanese diaspora who fled prior to the horrific Banda massacre in 1621.

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The tail of a Humpback whale is seen at the Gerlache Strait, which separates the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula, in Antarctica on January 19, 2024. A team of scientists have been working since 2014 on the elaboration of a catalog based on the visual analysis of cetacean tails, both in the confines of the continent and in the Colombian Pacific.

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Whale of a tail: Scientists track unique humpback 'fingerprint'

Photograph inventory allows scientists to track the movement of specific whales, which is crucial for conservation initiatives.

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Entertainment

Streaming giant Spotify adds music videos

"The beta version of music videos on Spotify begins rolling out today...," the company said in a statement.

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Young guns: Sinemaku Pictures is set to premiere three films in 2024. From left to right: Temurun, Bolehkah Sekali Saja Kumenangis and Perayaan Mati Rasa.

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How Sinemaku Pictures has signaled a new era for Indonesian cinema

A new dawn is upon the Indonesian film industry, and studio founders and filmmakers Prilly Latuconsina and Umay Shahab are ready to embrace it.

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Archeologists found the Datu Ronggur inscription in Toba regency, North Sumatra in 2021. The inscription was carved on a cave wall and contains advice for its people to pray, which would be granted by 'opung' (ancestors in the Batak language).

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Discovery of ancient inscriptions adds new story to beginning of Batak script

Three ancient inscriptions found in North Sumatra show the possible transition from the ancient Sumatran script to the currently known Batak script.

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Environment

In Southeast Asia, protecting the environment is its own hazard

In 2022, at least 16 environmentalists were killed in Asia, including 11 in the Philippines and three in Indonesia.

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Spot the dog: Gugug peeks out of a vase in ‘Hiding with Care’, an acrylic painting by its creator Muhammad “Emte” Taufiq that was displayed along with other artworks featuring the titular character of the serial comic strip in Gugug! The Impawsible Exhibition, which ran from Jan. 27 to Feb. 25 at Slab by Rachel Gallery in Menteng, Central Jakarta.

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Gugug: A free-spirited, silent observer of everyday life

An exhibition to celebrate 25 years of comic strip ‘Gugug!’ embodies the canine character’s free and adventurous spirit.

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(L-R) British director Christopher Nolan and British producer Emma Thomas hold their Oscars for Best Picture “Oppenheimer“ at the 96th Annual Academy Awards Governors Ball at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 10, 2024.

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Christopher Nolan stamps unique mark on Hollywood

The British-American filmmaker -- an obsessively punctual, tea-swilling perfectionist, who is known for combining inventive, intellectual playfulness with an emphasis on realism -- was named best director at the Academy Awards on Sunday.

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(L-R) Jack Quaid, Florence Pugh, Ellen Mirojnick, Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Ludwig Göransson, Charles Roven, Robert Downey Jr., Luisa Abel, Emma Thomas, Hoyte van Hoytema, Ruth De Jong, Christopher Nolan, Josh Hartnett, Ashley Everett and Claire Kaufman accept the Best Picture award for “Oppenheimer“ onstage during the 96th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 10, 2024 in Hollywood, California.

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'Oppenheimer' crowned best picture at the Oscars

Director Christopher Nolan's film starred Irish actor Cillian Murphy as theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the US effort in the 1940s to create a weapon devastating enough to end World War Two.

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Arts Practitioners Hope Cultural Endowment Fund to be Maintained

The government's innovation through the disbursement of the Indonesian Fund has received positive responses from cultural figures and artists. They hope that the Indonesian Fund, sourced from the Cultural Endowment Fund, will be maintained. Especially by the upcoming government.

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This illustration picture shows artificial Intelligence (AI) smartphone app ChatGPT surrounded by other AI apps in Vaasa, Finland, on June 6, 2023.

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AI tools generate sexist content, warns UN

The biggest players in the multibillion-dollar AI field train their algorithms on vast amounts of data largely pulled from the internet, which enables their tools to write in the style of Oscar Wilde or create Salvador Dali-inspired images.

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