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Around 663,000 schoolchildren screened this year in the government’s free health check program were found to have high blood pressure, raising concern over underlying conditions such as kidney damage linked to unhealthy lifestyles and increasing consumption of ultra-processed foods.
3 hours agoThe closure of steelmaker PT Krakatau Osaka Steel (KOS) has sparked fears that Indonesia’s steel industry crisis is deepening, undermining the government’s self-sufficiency push in the strategic sector. ...
4 hours agoThe government believes that climbing commodity prices have created windfall profits for mining companies, requiring an adjustment to the state's revenue share. ...
8 hours agoVisitors from the Middle East, Europe and the US typically spend more and stay longer in Indonesia compared with tourists from other regions, Tourism Minister said.
8 hours agoIndonesia has held two tax amnesties, in 2016 and 2022, the first of which was initiated on the fallout from the Panama Papers leak that revealed data on individuals holding assets offshore, many in tax haven countries.
9 hours agoThe passengers -- four Australian citizens, one permanent resident in Australia and a New Zealander -- are to be kept at Western Australia's 500-bed Bullsbrook center, originally built for the Covid-19 pandemic.
10 hours agoToday’s emissions choices will determine how many more may face dangerous heatwaves this century.
12 hours agoIn Barma Baru village, Meyado district, Teluk Bintuni regency, West Papua, change is evident. TK Negeri Barma Baru, a kindergarten that for years had to endure a cramped, plywood-partitioned space, now stands in a more suitable building with much more adequate facilities.
13 hours agoCooperation between Southeast Asia and Latin America matters, as both regions face similar pressures related to sustainable development, biodiversity protection and green industrialization.
13 hours agoThe dollar climbed in Asia on Monday on signs that talks between the United States and Iran were deadlocked, leaving the vital Strait of Hormuz all but shut and sending oil prices higher.
13 hours agoIndonesia has built a sophisticated carbon market on paper, but without a tighter cap and a real price floor, it remains a system for recording emissions rather than reducing them.
14 hours agoPT Pertamina (Persero) reaffirms its alignment with Halliburton following a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed in February between the two parties focusing on priority areas of cooperation and the development of a more concrete implementation pathway.
13 hours agoWhile Indonesia’s macroeconomic indicators signal stability, a deepening governance asymmetry risks turning a temporary K-shaped recovery into a permanent structural divide.
16 hours agoThe Jakarta administration, under the leadership of Governor Pramono, is aiming to upgrade all low-income neighborhoods and build adequate public facilities and supporting infrastructures by 2027.
17 hours agoIndonesia is emerging as a new operational hub for transnational online gambling and cyber scam syndicates, said the National Police, following recent raids on cybercrime dens across the country that allegedly involved hundreds of foreign nationals.
17 hours agoWe offer a paradigm shift: from managing conflict to preventing conflict through shared prosperity models.
17 hours agoMost of the foreigners detained are Chinese and Vietnamese nationals and entered Indonesia using the visa-free visit program (BVK) and visa-on-arrival (VoA).
17 hours agoPresident Prabowo Subianto’s push to slash ride-hailing platform commissions has sparked growing concerns over the sustainability of Indonesia’s digital economy, with critics warning that the policy could weaken the very ecosystem it aims to protect.
17 hours agoThe public’s enthusiasm was high despite there being road construction activity along Jl. HR Rasuna Said, leading the city administration to open CFD and several other activities in the area.
17 hours agoIndonesia has detected 23 cases of hantavirus infections since 2024, with recent cases in Jakarta and Yogyakarta were assumed to have no connections with the outbreak on board of a European cruise ship.
17 hours agoThe riot started after host Perspira Jayapura lost 1-0 to guest PS Adhyaksa Banten in a Liga 2 Indonesia soccer playoff match on Friday.
17 hours agoIn an exclusive interview with The Jakarta Post, Deputy Creative Economy Minister Irene Umar highlights a new focus on pushing underdeveloped roles, such as community management and QC testing, to grow the local gaming industry for global appeal.
18 hours agoThe government will issue a presidential instruction on rescuing the population and habitats of Sumatran and Kalimantan elephants.
18 hours agoDisunity has held back ASEAN from making progress on many fronts, particularly resolving the persistent issues in its backyard, and the same could also apply to the Prabowo administration's foreign policy stance as regards the bloc: Perhaps it is simply not the time for Indonesia to take up the regional mantle.
18 hours agoPresident Prabowo Subianto has called on ASEAN countries to prioritize dialogue and peaceful resolutions in addressing regional conflicts, as Southeast Asian leaders addressed developments in Myanmar and border tensions during the recent summit in Cebu, the Philippines.
1 day agoWhen one looks at Chinese household consumption per capita alongside comparable countries in terms of their postwar growth “take-off time,” the picture changes.
1 day agoPresident Prabowo Subianto has called on ASEAN member states to accelerate the development of renewable energy and make progress on the long-proposed Trans-Borneo Power Grid, warning that energy security is an “urgent” necessity amid instability in the Middle East.
1 day agoSouth Korea's total fertility rate -- the number of children each woman will have on average -- increased last year from 0.75 to 0.8, still well below the threshold of 2.1 needed to maintain the population.
1 day agoRelative calm prevailed around the Strait of Hormuz early on Sunday after days of sporadic flare-ups, as the United States waited for Iran's response to its latest proposals to end more than two months of fighting and begin peace talks.
1 day agoIsrael deported two activists, Saif Abu Keshek, a Spanish national, and Brazilian Thiago Avila, on Sunday after arresting them aboard a Gaza-bound flotilla in international waters, the foreign ministry said.
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