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View all search resultsAGO spokesperson Anang Supriatna told The Jakarta Post on Thursday that the office had coordinated with the Immigration Directorate General to issue the six-month travel ban, which has been in effect since Nov. 14.
1 week agoAccording to the latest budget figures presented by Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa, the state budget deficit remains well below the full-year ceiling with just two months left in the calendar year, which the minister attributes to fiscal discipline. ...
1 week agoMost cases flagged through the ministry’s new labor complaints platform, Lapor Menaker, are tied to industrial relations and wages, followed by cases involving social security and working hours. ...
1 week agoThe government plans to enter an agreement with Malaysia and Singapore to develop a cross-border data center that will also serve as a buyer of clean power from Indonesia, according to Coordinating Economy Minister Airlangga Hartanto.
1 week agoContrary to what adults might expect, young people want adults to know and care about their online lives.
1 week agoSome 21 people remain missing after landslides triggered by torrential rain struck the city of Cilacap last week and the Banjarnegara region over the weekend, the agency said.
1 week agoAt just 14, author Hillary Aimee Srijaya is showing girls what it’s like to reach for your dreams, both on and off the page.
1 week agoUltimately, the coercive power of the state could not withstand the power of the people.
1 week agoAround 3.7 million hectares of plantations have been seized by the government's forestry task force, with nearly half transferred to the nascent state-run firm Agrinas Palma Nusantara, transforming it into the world's largest palm oil company by land size.
1 week agoAsian shares extended a global rout on Friday as the much-anticipated US jobs data failed to provide clarity on the near-term path for interest rates, with investors returning to dumping risk assets even after Nvidia's earnings dazzled.
1 week agoWhen democracy can’t protect the people most affected, it stops being democracy.
1 week agoQuestions on whether the comet could actually be an alien spacecraft are coming from sources as varied as the reality TV star, a member of US Congress and a Harvard researcher, as well as from prominent conspiracy theorists.
1 week agoIndonesia, with its potential to generate up to 13.4 billion tonnes of tradable carbon credits by 2050, is not yet the center of the carbon trade.
1 week agoMount Semeru in Lumajang, East Java erupted on Wednesday afternoon, throwing ash and gas more than 13 kilometres (eight miles) away and forcing officials to raise the alert status to its highest level.
1 week agoA centuries-old mosque becomes a bridge for peace in post-conflict Maluku, uniting communities through heritage preservation.
1 week agoBegal (street robbers) are getting bolder recently by harming their victims using sharp weapons in northern Medan area near the Belawan Port.
1 week agoJapan’s Lost Decade offers a sobering lesson. The country suffered not from a lack of money, but from a collapse in growth expectations.
1 week agoJust as the climate crisis slowly pushes shorelines inland, a towering pile of green mussel shells now buries the already shrinking coastline in Cilincing, North Jakarta.
1 week agoThe National Police’s National Criminal Information Center recorded 50 abductions involving victims under 20 years of age between January and November this year, most of whom were targeted through illegal adoption pages on social media.
1 week agoAhead of the G20 presidency's impending handover to the United States, followed by other Global North economies over the next three years, the Johannesburg summit marks a turning point in sustaining the multilateral order.
1 week agoFormer president Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is struggling to maintain his political clout in Indonesia. The prolonged controversy surrounding his academic certificate has eroded his credibility, while his clan, once expected to carry on his political legacy, has sought every path to establish meaningful influence. Instead, many of Jokowi's close allies have become entangled in legal troubles, and his sway within President Prabowo Subianto's administration is steadily fading.
1 week agoCivil groups and students plan to challenge the new Criminal Law Procedures Code (KUHAP) Law at the Constitutional Court, citing alleged “manipulation” of public input during the deliberation by lawmakers.
1 week agoThe government plans to impose exit duties on gold next year in a bid to increase state revenue and keep more of the precious metal inside the country for saving or further processing.
1 week agoB discovered Dwinanda body's naked, lying face-down on the floor, on Tuesday morning inside a boarding hotel on Jl. Telaga Bodas Raya in Gajahmungkur, Semarang, and immediately reported the discovery to authorities.
1 week agoThe amended Criminal Law Procedures Code (KUHAP) should be challenged at the Constitutional Court as it expands the police’s authority regarding preliminary investigations, detention, search and seizure, and wiretapping, which is prone to abuse.
1 week agoThe Communications and Digital Ministry has warned US-based internet services provider Cloudflare that its services in Indonesia could be blocked over legal compliance issues and allegations that it facilitates gambling websites.
1 week agoThe 3,676-meter-high volcano spewed ash clouds reaching up to 2 kilometers above its peak, sending lava and rocks as far as 13 kilometers down its slopes, according to officials.
1 week agoThe digital economy, including the development of artificial intelligence and cooperation to bolster the fight against transnational crimes surrounding online scams, is among the sectors to be prioritized in the expansion of cooperation between South Korea and Southeast Asian nations.
1 week agoMalaysia’s leadership during its Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) chairmanship has elevated the bloc’s global standing and reinforced its centrality through strong diplomacy, coordinated policy moves and high-level engagement, say analysts.
1 week agoSummers announced he was resigning from the board of OpenAI, developer of the ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool, and a spokesman later said he would discontinue teaching roles at Harvard and go on leave as a director of a business and government school while Harvard conducts a review of people named in the Epstein files.
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