Indonesia is hosting the inaugural the Indonesian Lion Dance Sports Federation (FOBI) World Championship 2024 for lion dance, a prestigious event scheduled for May 17-19 at the Britama Arena in Mahaka Square, North Jakarta.
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The government has announced 27 national holidays for this year alone, mostly related to religious events. By comparison, Vietnam has only 13 national holidays, said Eko Listiyanto from the Jakarta-based Institute for Development of Economics and Finance.
As diplomatic showdowns go, this summit had few parallels. In a grand pavilion in the magnificent grounds of the royal palace of Singasari in eastern Java, an envoy from Kublai Khan, the most powerful man in the world, sat down to pass on a blunt message to King Kertanegera, probably the most powerful ruler in Southeast Asia. The year was 1290.
Indonesia’s most prolific film director is juggling multiple projects as his latest film proves box office gold.
In this episode Dr Marina Welker talks about her new book and deep dive on how multinational tobacco corporations impact the lives of ordinary Indonesians.
Heavy metal music is controversial in some conservative societies but quite popular in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country.
The ambitious plan to progressively develop a million hectares of rice fields in Central Kalimantan province with Beijing providing its rice technology in support emerged from high-level bilateral talks last month.
Prosecutors in New York City have announced that they returned to Cambodia and Indonesia 30 antiquities that were looted, sold or illegally transferred by networks of American antiquities dealers and traffickers.
P T Sepatu Bata, the oldest footwear manufacturer in the country, had ceased production at its only factory in the West Java regency of Purwakarta due to a drop in demand.
UNESCO famously protects crucial architecture, nature, and artforms around the world, but lesser known is that it also recognizes historic health practices.
The all-girl rock band Voice of Baceprot (VoB) is set to make history as the first Indonesian band to perform at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, UK, scheduled for next month.
Microsoft’s investments will create initiatives and AI skilling opportunities for over 840,000 people, supporting the nation’s rapidly growing developer community–which is the third-largest developer community on GitHub in the Asia-Pacific region and is projected to be one of the top five developer communities by 2026.
There are many things that drive migration to other countries, and one of them is romantic relationships and marriages. But Asian women who are developing relationships with men from Western countries, like Australia, be it through snail mails, online sites or other means, often have to face the stereotype of the ‘subservient woman’.
I love being Indonesian, but when I ask myself the question if it was worth hiding my queer identity to be accepted, I still grapple over the many intricacies of what it means to be Indonesian.
Mooryati Soedibyo, the founder of the cosmetics company Mustika Ratu and the Puteri Indonesia Foundation, as well as a prominent figure in traditional herbal medicine (jamu), passed away at the age of 96 on Wednesday at 01.00 a.m. Jakarta time.
