Indonesia is set to grant visa-free visits to 20 countries by October, according to the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy. The proposal is now in its final stages.
David Sexton
Rescue team deployed to remote region on Sulawesi island to search for the missing.
Jakarta is a fabulous city. To many, this statement might sound odd. The city conjures up images of endless traffic jams, immense shopping malls that all sell pretty much the same thing and, of course, floods.
Indonesia sent Monday humanitarian assistance worth a total of Rp 35.5 billion (around $2 million) to the landslide-struck Papua New Guinea as well as Afghanistan which got hit by an earthquake and flash floods.
More than 150 Sumatran tigers are estimated to inhabit Indonesia’s Kerinci Seblat National Park, an official said Sunday, according to Indonesian news agency Antara.
Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the terrorist group accused of carrying out the 2002 Bali bombings, has been dissolved after a decision by its leadership to shift towards “creating a new education-focused entity”.
The plan of the Minister of Health (Menkes) to bring in foreign doctors has invited a polemic. This issue got hotter after news emerged that the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga (Unair) was dismissed from his position in connection with this.
UAE-based retail major Lulu Group marked its first retail push in the Far East by opening its first hypermarket in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.
Addition to Manado Adventist Hospital focuses on improving services for patients.
Indonesian conservationist Nyoman Sugiarto has been working for 16 years to preserve coral on the reefs of Bali, but the frequency of mass coral bleachings he says is now devastating.
Factory closures and mass layoffs signal troubled times for Indonesia’s once-booming textile sector.
The hackers behind a major cyber attack on the Indonesian government have issued a surprise apology and offered to release the “keys” to the stolen data.
A team of scientists co-led by researchers from Australia’s Griffith University, the Indonesian National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) and Southern Cross University has discovered and dated a cave painting on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi that may be the oldest known evidence of storytelling in art, with the findings published in the journal Nature.
On 3rd July, rumours emerged suggesting that Indonesia might ease its strict bauxite export ban due to slower-than-expected progress in constructing alumina refineries. Following the news, SHFE alumina futures prices fell 1.7% to RMB 3,824/mt in response.
Brightly coloured dancers from the diffable community stole the show during celebrations for the first anniversary of Pusat Disabilitas Unhas, the centre aimed at empowering students with disability.
On 6–7 June 2024 the World Health Organization (WHO) and national and international partners conducted a stakeholder meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia on strengthening preparedness and resilience for emerging health threats (PRET), with a focus on emerging infectious diseases (EIDs).
