Indonesian police held firebrand Muslim leader Rizieq Shihab for questioning on suspicion of breaching coronavirus restrictions by staging several mass gatherings.
Helen Brown
The government will prioritise Java and Bali islands for the first round of vaccination programs due to their high number of COVID-19 cases.
Universities are making a serious mistake in closing down Indonesian-language programs just when Australia needs to strengthen it relationships and trade with Asian neighbours, the head of a leading languages organisation says.
Tesla, the U.S. automaker, will send delegations to Indonesia next month to discuss potential investment in a supply chain for its electric vehicles, the government said in a statement.
Dr Lily Yulianti Farid is an alumna of the University of Melbourne, an Indonesian writer, research, educator and cultural activist with more than a decade connecting Australia – Indonesia through research, arts, culture and literature through cultural bridge that she has built in both countries.
With its first shipment of China’s experimental CoronaVac vaccine arriving this week, Indonesia still faces a mammoth task to combat the continuing surge in infections from the coronavirus.
Indonesia is the second largest plastic polluter on the planet after China, releasing hundreds of thousands of tonnes of plastic every year into its rivers and marine environment. Can it meet its ambitious plan to tackle the problem?
The demise of tourism due to the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a dramatic downturn in Bali’s economy. The artists of the island’s cultural epicenter, Ubud, have been especially hit hard.
The Australia Indonesia Centre is pleased to welcome two industry fellows to deepen its knowledge base and increase the network of connections between the two countries.
Indonesia’s new Omnibus Law has attracted a great deal of commentary. One feature that has largely escaped notice is its likely impact on regional autonomy and consequently corruption and political dynasties in the regions.
“Now, when our economy and workers are hurting so much, the companies making the most from Indonesia’s natural resource wealth should pay their fair share of tax and support our country,” TII’s Danang said in a press release.”
Indonesia has long been known as one of the most active Facebook and Twitter nations, but recently Instagram has become the social media of choice for many young Indonesians. Some of the platform’s most prolific users are female Islamic activists who are keen to use social media as a novel tool for proselytisation (or da’wa).
UGM epidemiologist, Bayu Satria Wiratama, revealed that the decision to start face-to-face learning needs to involve a number of parties, including the Education Office, the Health Office, and also epidemiologists.
The Australia-Indonesia Centre (AIC) is pleased to announce a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Provincial Government of South Sulawesi.
Indonesia’s Environment and Forestry Ministry and the World Bank signed a deal on Friday on the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), which provides an additional opportunity for the government to receive payments in exchange for reducing carbon emissions.
One night, not long after I arrived in Sydney in 2007, my mum told me her friend had given us some lontong for dinner. I jumped at the chance of eating something familiar from home: a compressed roll of rice wrapped in banana leaves, boiled, and cut up into small compact cakes.
