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View all search resultsThe Communications and Digital Ministry’s newly implemented content rating system for video games has come in for criticism for its arbitrary age classification, prompting concerns among players and developers about the availability of games in Indonesia.
4 hours agoAn environmental watchdog has found that over 430,000 hectares of forest areas were cut down last year, primarily for realizing President Prabowo Subianto’s food and energy self-sufficiency agenda. ...
1 day agoThe government’s temporary restriction on platforms operated by nonprofit organization Wikimedia Foundation has raised concerns among digital rights advocates, who warn that arbitrary controls risk undermining citizens’ access to free knowledge and freedom of expression. ...
3 days agoThe Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has vowed that early warning information for tsunamis and other related disasters will be disseminated within three minutes of an earthquake’s detection.
1 year agoFollowing the deaths of several students allegedly resulting from assaults by teachers, experts have called on the government to pay closer attention to educators’ mental health, noting that many are enduring heavy workloads and low wages.
1 year agoThe House of Representatives’ special committee to inquire into the government’s management and organization of this year’s haj has concluded its month-long investigation and come up with several recommendations, including that the next government find a better religious affairs minister.
1 year agoOne of PTDI's newest aircraft is undergoing development into an amphibious version, with the plane maker aiming for certification by 2026.
1 year agoThe Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) in West Java has come under fire over a recent policy that requires students receiving tuition fee reductions to work part time on campus, with education experts criticizing the requirement as inconsistent with prevailing regulations and showcasing power relations between the university and its students.
1 year agoThe export of sea sand may threaten islands across the archipelago, as well as the livelihoods of people living on them, as sand dredging has caused dozens of islands to disappear in the past, environmentalists have warned.
1 year agoIn a world that often races by, slow travel allows us to pause, savor, and form genuine connections with the places we visit.
1 year agoA noncontract teacher of an elementary school in Banyuwangi has been detained for allegedly hacking the civil service database and selling the stolen data for US$8,000.
1 year agoA number of police watchdogs have urged the law enforcement authorities to be transparent in probing the discovery of the bodies of seven male teenagers in the Bekasi River, West Java, who are thought to have been chased by the police for initiating a brawl via social media.
1 year agoThe government must carry out agrarian reform by redistributing plots of land to farmers to improve their welfare, farmers said during a rally commemorating National Farmers' Day on Tuesday.
1 year agoThe plan to import 1.5 million dairy cows to support president-elect Prabowo Subianto's trademark free meal program may exacerbate the climate crisis through greenhouse gas emissions created by the cattle as well as deforestation from land clearing for the dairy farms, observers have warned.
1 year agoEducation observers say poor character education at schools is responsible for rampant bullying in the country and have urged institutions to implement intensive anti-bullying training and interfaith dialogue to foster a sense of respect among people of different backgrounds.
1 year agoThe Netherlands has signed a new deal with Indonesia to return nearly 300 cultural objects this month, including several statues, with the newly repatriated artifacts slated for an exhibition to mark the National Museum's reopening in October, according to a museum official.
1 year agoFor years, a July complaint alleges, the company's employees were obliged to work extended hours while enduring abusive treatment, such as being slapped and choked. They were also reportedly denied rightful overtime pay.
1 year agoBINUS private school has been embroiled in controversy once again after another alleged bullying incident at one of its high schools drew widespread attention, including from lawmakers at the House of Representatives.
1 year agoThe Health Ministry has collected and made publicly available genomic data from 9,000 Indonesians, a development expected to help doctors make more accurate diagnoses and provide better treatment.
1 year agoNutritional experts have raised concerns over a proposal to use "fish milk" for the free nutritious free meals program of incoming President Prabowo Subianto amid insufficient domestic production of cow milk.
1 year agoUnder the new regulation, the Environment and Forestry Ministry can provide legal aid and protection for environmental defenders who are under threat of any retaliatory actions for their activism.
1 year agoThe state-owned Health Care and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) is planning to use a facial recognition technology to identify millions of its policyholders and to prevent fraud in the National Health Insurance (JKN) system.
1 year agoFollowing Pope Francis's messages urging interfaith dialogue, upholding tolerance and protecting diversity during his Indonesia visit, rights advocates have called on the government to take up the mantle by revoking discriminatory policies, such as the controversial 2006 decree deemed to restrict the constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of minority religions in the country.
1 year agoThe suspects were arrested in cities around the capital Jakarta, and the provinces of West Sumatra and Bangka Belitung Islands.
1 year agoThe Finance Minister has proposed a new state budget mechanism for meeting the mandatory 20 percent allocation for education, which has raised fears among experts that schools, teachers and students will all be left shortchanged.
1 year agoHaving vast areas of mangrove and peatland, Indonesia is being recognized a hotspot for global biodiversity and has significant potential to lead climate change action.
1 year agoPope Francis wraps up the first leg of his 12-day Asia-Pacific in Jakarta on Friday, departing for the next phase of his tour in Papua New Guinea, before proceeding to Timor-Leste and Singapore.
1 year agoIn a four-point joint statement named the Istiqlal Declaration, Pope Francis and leaders of Indonesian religious groups called for interfaith cooperation to solve the world's humanitarian and environmental crises.
1 year agoThe event was the high point of the 87-year-old pope's four days in Jakarta on the first stop of a 12-day tour of Southeast Asia and Oceania, with visits to Timor Leste, Singapore and Papua New Guinea.
1 year agoPope Francis praised Indonesia on Thursday for fostering a sense of friendship among different religious groups as he visited Jakarta's Istiqlal Mosque, located just across the street from the Jakarta Cathedral, in one of the final set pieces of the pontiff’s three-day visit to the country.
1 year agoMedical students of the Diponegoro University in Semarang, Central Java, have urged authorities to resolve bullying allegations against Aulia Risma Lestari, a medical resident at the university who committed suicide last month.
1 year agoFaisal, who was well known for his vocal opposition of the government's recent economic policies from nickel downstreaming to deindustrialization, died at 3:50 a.m. on Thursday at Mayapada Hospital and was laid to rest at the Menteng Pulo Cemetery in South Jakarta.
1 year agoPope Francis continued his Indonesian itinerary by visiting the Istiqlal Mosque in Central Jakarta on Thursday morning as an effort to foster interfaith harmony and push for joint efforts to tackle climate change.
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