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Learning to light our own fires was one of the great turning points in human history, offering our ancestors warmth, a place to socialise and a way to cook food -- which helped us evolve our unusually big brains.
9 minutes agoThe winners and snubs at this year’s Indonesian “Oscars” are revealing in what they show about the nation’s movie industry today. ...
18 minutes agoRussia has moved significantly closer to China, sometimes uncomfortably so, while the United States has tried to consolidate Europe under a NATO-centered response to Moscow. ...
47 minutes agoAs Indonesia’s education landscape rapidly embraces digital learning and transformation, educators and researchers are increasingly seeking deeper, culturally grounded insights into what truly motivates students. For Indonesian-born scholar Associate Professor Gregory Arief D. Liem, these questions have shaped a lifelong research mission that contributes to global conversations on student motivation.
47 minutes agoGreer declined to discuss the state of the trade talks with Indonesia, saying they were subject to a confidentiality agreement, but underscoring Washington's interest in finalizing the trade deal.
1 hour agoThe national security strategies document speaks of reducing America’s trade imbalances, increasing commerce, securing supply chains and reindustrializing the country.
1 hour agoCountries with high disaster risk do not leave disaster protection to voluntary market behavior
2 hours agoWhen handling the nationwide anti-government protests in August, the police used a variant of tear gas grenade that contains explosive charges, which is banned in police crowd control in several countries.
3 hours agoCompeting claims over who holds legitimate authority in the country’s most influential Islamic organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), have thrown the organization into turmoil after its supreme council appointed an acting chairman, a move that was opposed by current chairman Yahya Cholil Staquf.
3 hours agoMany people today are burning the furniture to keep the house warm, and when the wood runs out, they are buying firewood on high-interest credit.
3 hours agoAuthorities are struggling to restore power in northern Sumatra, particularly in Aceh, after widespread floods and landslides last month, triggered by a rare cyclone and exacerbated by environmental destruction, with felled trees sweeping away villages, causing massive damage and hampering recovery.
4 hours agoIndonesia’s banking industry is cautiously optimistic about 2026 loan growth after sluggish demand this year.
4 hours agoIt was the second time the pair have met this year in Russia, as Putin courts Prabowo, the leader of the world's fourth most populous country, to build stronger ties with the Global South while his economy remains under Western sanctions because of the war in Ukraine.
4 hours agoBuilding more infrastructure and opening real economic opportunities in the outer cities and beyond will help relieve Jakarta’s heavy burden.
4 hours agoNews reports suggest that talks aimed at reaching a final bilateral trade agreement were in danger of collapsing over growing frustration in Washington.
13 hours agoAccording to preliminary data from Bank Indonesia (BI) published on Wednesday, the retail sales index (RSI) was projected to have climbed to 222.1 in November, marking a solid 5.9 percent year-on-year (yoy) increase from 209.7 in November 2024.
14 hours agoPresident Prabowo Subianto became the second Indonesian to receive Pakistan's highest civilian honor Nishan-e-Pakistan after former president and his former father-in-law Soeharto, who received the award in 1982.
15 hours agoThe government assessed that there were relations between activities of the three companies with natural disasters affecting several regions in North Sumatra.
15 hours agoAccording to preliminary police information, the fire is suspected to have been triggered by a drone battery that exploded on the ground floor, although investigators from the National Police’s Forensic Laboratory (Puslabfor Bareskrim) are still working to determine the definitive cause.
16 hours agoSupply disruptions of various types of chilies and vegetables have increased the prices in Batam following the flooding in the northern part of Sumatra.
16 hours agoEstimates indicate 600 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of gas initially in place, with a potential of beyond 1 trillion cubic feet (Tcf).
20 hours agoVenezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who lives in hiding, is due to receive her Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Wednesday, but hours before the ceremony it was still unclear whether she would attend.
21 hours agoThailand's foreign minister said in an interview on Tuesday that he saw no potential for negotiations in the border conflict, adding the situation was not conducive to third-party mediation, while a top adviser to Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet told Reuters his country was "ready to talk at any time".
21 hours agoCambodia withdrew on Wednesday from the Southeast Asian Games, a Games official said, as a border conflict with hosts Thailand escalated and forced a mass exodus of civilians from both sides of the disputed frontier.
22 hours agoAbandoning Taiwan would undermine US interests, alienate allies, embolden China and unravel the Indo-Pacific balance.
22 hours agoThe strategy, called Libra Hybrid, is targeting $500 million in total commitments and drew capital from global institutions including sovereign wealth funds and Granite Asia's partners, Granite Asia said in a statement.
22 hours agoDeep in the Abu Dhabi desert, a vast AI campus a quarter the size of Paris is starting to emerge, the oil-rich UAE's boldest bet yet on technology it hopes will help transform its economy.
23 hours agoThe region's flagship index has jumped more than 25 percent this year as a wave of governance reforms and fresh domestic money has started to chip away at a decade-long valuation gap with the United States.
23 hours agoFor social media businesses, the implementation marks a new era of structural stagnation as user numbers flatline and time spent on platforms shrinks, studies show.
1 day agoA parenting book gave unexpected lessons in healing, empathy and how to show up better for the children around me and the parents doing their best.
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