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.
Human Rights
Rescue team deployed to remote region on Sulawesi island to search for the missing.
Factory closures and mass layoffs signal troubled times for Indonesia’s once-booming textile sector.
Minors who were locked up in adult prisons for people smuggling say they could not understand proceedings and thought they were going home.
When Doreen Biehle’s husband died, her living situation became precarious.
Indonesia’s national data center has been compromised by a hacking group asking for a $8 million ransom that the government says it won’t pay.
Morwan Mohammad walks down an old hotel corridor on Batam Island in northwestern Indonesia before entering a 6-square-meter (64-square-foot) room that has been home to him and his growing family for eight years.
Critical minerals producers are lauded by the government for creating jobs and generating revenue, and they market themselves as socially responsible. But they are neglecting the safety of their workers under a cover of weak regulations and government protection.
When policies supporting LGBT staff clash with local realities, some companies back down, while others find a way to bridge the divide.
A familiar approach was floated by Indonesia when news broke about social platform X’s decision to officially allow pornographic content: Ban and block it.
Thousands of workers in Indonesia have rallied in front of the Presidential Palace in Jakarta to protest a new plan to take from their salaries to support a national housing scheme.
The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) revealed that almost 10 million of Indonesia’s Generation Z residents aged 15-24 are unemployed or without activities (not in employment, education, and training/NEET).
Dandhy Dwi Laksono has made documentaries and won human rights awards, but he says his highest achievement might be yet to come — violating Indonesia’s proposed new Broadcasting Law.
Campaigners are taking legal action to stop four palm oil companies from clearing vast tracts of forest for plantations.
What’s the connection between your smartphone and crocodile attacks? It’s quite straightforward.
Despite several issues with the noken system, chief among them the lack of representation of Papuan women, the Constitutional Court of Indonesia has upheld its use in Papua as a form of indigenous deliberative democracy.
