According to the Indonesian Communications Minister, the intention of the website was “to bring together and improve the performance of our civil servants, as well as to foster higher levels of nationalism.”
Aimee Harman
If Indonesia hopes to advance as a nation, and avoid political and economic disaster, its leaders must resist the temptation of reverting to old forms of governance.
Police said on Friday they had arrested the head of the Amelia palm oil company on suspicion of having paid several men about $3,000 to kill the two activists.
Reini Wirahadikusumah has made history as the first-ever female Rector of ITB, at a meeting attended by the Minister of Education and Culture, Nadiem Makarim.
Agricultural and biosystem engineering students have developed cloud-based technology to monitor water levels. The technology is currently used for irrigation, but the students hope to potentially develop it into an early warning system for floods.
Though psychiatric treatment in the country is improving, a limited understanding of mental health issues, and entrenched social stigma make it a challenge for the country’s mentally ill to seek help or even sympathy.
To improve education his policies should not only use advanced technology and innovation, but also make these reforms more open and accessible for all, more importantly for disadvantaged students and teachers.
By the end of the century, much of the coastal land we live on could be uninhabitable.
Jakarta is one of the fastest sinking megacities in the world due to excessive groundwater extraction for drinking and other everyday purposes by the city’s 10 million inhabitants.
Indonesia is dangling the world’s largest trove of nickel to lure the auto industry into spending billions of dollars to transform the islands into a hub for the technology.
In Indonesia, a young democracy still recovering from three decades of military rule, companies usually succeed in their efforts to annex indigenous lands.
Despite the diametric opposition between their supporters, in reality the political difference between the two leaders is shrinking, if not disappearing altogether.
Ivan from the Bandung-based band Kontrasosial spread the message that ‘people who use drugs should not be put in prison. That is not a solution. It makes much more sense for money to go toward the health of society’.
McKinsey & Company has been appointed to conduct a feasibility study on moving the capital from the crowded, flood-prone city of Jakarta on Java island to the forested island of Borneo.
Jakarta is still sinking by 12 centimetres (4.7 inches) per year in northern parts of the city, despite an improvement in groundwater levels blamed for causing land subsidence.
In West Sumatra, residents of village Pakan Rabaa have put in place a treetop surveillance system that uses recycled cellphones and artificial intelligence software to listen for rogue loggers and catch them in the act.