Forty-five years after the Netherlands promised its return, a gold-inlaid dagger surrendered by a “rebel prince” after his failed 1830 uprising against Dutch rule in Indonesia has been handed back to Jakarta.
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This year we celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March, the 25th anniversary of the UN Beijing Platform for Action, and the 20th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325.
Some Betawi dishes made it to the mainstream but the snacks and treats are disappearing due to domestic and international competition.
The volcano, located near the cities of Yogyakarta and Solo, has rumbled and generated dark hot clouds since last year.
The mushrooming of exclusively Muslim housing complexes is the result of growing conservatism, capitalism, and the lack of inclusive city planning.
An Australian boy with dwarfism whose distress from bullying became a viral video will donate hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to charity rather than go to Disneyland.
“They arrested him near the waterfall, just on the other side of the valley over there,” said Pak Johan, referring to the arrest of Chris Soumokil by the Indonesian Police in 1963.
Indonesia’s upgraded F-16 aircraft underwent its maiden flight in the Southeast Asian state. The development spotlighted one aspect of the country’s ongoing efforts to develop its air force capabilities.
Politicians from four Indonesian parties are backing a so-called “Family Resilience” Bill that would outlaw surrogacy and require LGBT people to seek treatment at rehabilitation centres, prompting criticism from activists.
Indonesia will hold the 2021 FIBA Asia Cup qualification this week despite a concern over the threat of COVID-19, the disease resulting from the novel coronavirus.
Indonesia President Joko Widodo’s declaration on the floor of the House of Representatives on Monday that “Australia is Indonesia’s closest friend” has given us pause for thought.
An Indonesian crowdsourcing app is tapping into the competitive spirit of its users by creating Pokemon Go-type games to help map land across the sprawling archipelago.
Musician I Gede ‘Jerinx’ Ari Astina was still a student at the University of National Education in Denpasar, the provincial capital of Bali, when he first got involved in activism.
Likupang, in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi, is one of five new economic zones the Indonesian Government is developing alongside its plan to create 10 “new Balis”.
According to the Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights, revulsion over the Sinaga case has sparked a widespread homophobic backlash in his Muslim-majority Southeast Asian homeland.