Awareness about the importance of tackling child labour issues in the palm oil industry has been growing, with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) increasing its role in the movement.
Human Rights
An Indonesian court has sentenced former Social Affairs Minister Juliari Peter Batubara to 12 years in prison for embezzling more than US$2 million in Covid-19 relief program funds.
While the COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost all parts of society, it has deeply impacted people with disabilities, many of whom have been dragged closer to the poverty line as the ongoing crisis severely reduces their income.
More than 14,000 Afghans have settled in the Indian capital of New Delhi and 8,000 are estimated to be in Indonesia. Here are some of their stories.
Jakarta leads the nation in introducing various policies to persuade people to get vaccinated and help bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control.
After catching the coronavirus, Jenny Mikha was faced with a choice: go out on the streets to find food, and infect more people, or starve.
Sports can be an important vehicle for the disabled to tackle social inclusion. Indra, a youth with disabilities from Indonesia, has been fighting to make sport more accessible for the disabled.
Human rights organisations have welcomed the Indonesian army’s apparent decision to end the “abusive” and long-criticised “virginity testing” of female recruitments.
Carmel, who passed away in London on July 10 at 96, is among the very few people whose work in the region has been recognized in both conservative Muslim areas, like Aceh, and predominantly Christian areas, like East Timor and West Papua.
Some residents of an Indonesian island where a world-class luxury resort and motor-racing circuit is being constructed with China-linked money say they have been threatened in connection with the project or have not received fair compensation for their land.
Indonesia’s government apologized after security forces were filmed pinning a deaf man to the ground and putting a knee on his head, in a video that went viral and prompted comparisons to police brutality in the United States.
Maskulinitas laki-laki bukan tanggung jawab perempuan, karena setiap manusia memiliki otoritas untuk menentukan siapa dirinya sendiri.
As Indonesia becomes the epicentre of the pandemic, a growing number of volunteer groups have assembled to fill in gaps in the government response.
The results of research published sheds light on why women are minimally represented in official Covid-19 taskforce structures while having overwhelming majority representation in the frontlines of emergency and pandemic responses.
Indonesia’s rapidly escalating COVID-19 outbreak is infecting and killing children at an unprecedented rate, as Save the Children Indonesia issues an urgent plea to the international community for more vaccines.
Just a few days before he was fatally shot in the thigh, Indonesian journalist Mara Salem Harahap, who was known as Marsal, took his wife and two children on a family outing to the city of Medan in North Sumatra, about two hours away from their home. During the trip, they took a family photograph together and Marsal shared the picture on social media.
