The price of gold has soared, fuelling a boom in illegal panning in rivers near US company Freeport’s Grasberg mine and other places in Indonesia.

“When economic crisis happens in urban areas, villages are supposed to be the buffer zones as ruralization occurs,” Jokowi said.

Jokowi urged member states to forge stronger ties to alleviate the pandemic’s both health and socio-economic impact.

An AIC research program looks into the challenges that face rural young people in South Sulawesi forced to return home due to COVID-19.

Aquaculture provides fallback for people of the Penida Archipelago as they wait for tourists’ return.

The climate in South East Asian countries makes it impossible to simply replicate packaging used in Europe, and more research is now underway.

Indonesian women carry the burden of unpaid work, including care-giving, due to persistent gender inequality in Indonesian society and segregation in the labour market.

The ‘Smart Village’, run by ITS students and faculty members, provides access to books, both paper and digital, along with free internet access, internet skills training, and more.

Indonesia’s development has been supported over several decades by one of the largest sustained multilateral aid efforts since WWII, from which Australia has also benefited.

Indonesia relies heavily on imported tobacco products (including Virginia tobacco leaves from China, Brazil and the US), at the expense of local producers.

Tobacco addiction risk does not significantly correlate with age, occupation, education level, marital status, or the number of people living in the home.

During these times of heightened xenophobia, perhaps it is all the more important to remember the importance of people-to-people relationships.