Indonesia launched an international aid agency on Friday to strengthen its regional diplomatic relations, some of which have been strained by Jakarta’s approach to the restive Papua region.
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Nadiem Makarim, co-founder of Indonesia’s first startup unicorn Gojek, resigned from his company and said he will take up a cabinet post.
Movements have been fragmented and divided into thematic silos that make it hard to get across a coherent message with little crossover and cooperation.
Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo has been sworn in for another term, six months after his resounding election victory. The 58-year-old president has pledged to make Indonesia one of the world’s top economies within 25 years.
KPU of Indonesia visited ITB to initiate a cooperation in development of electronic-based vote counting system for Simultaneous Regional Elections 2020.
Attacks on senior officials in Indonesia are very rare, though terrorist attacks on police are common. Protection proved to be disturbingly lax – the stabber got right up to the door of Wiranto’s car. The weapon was a knife, not a bomb or a gun.
“Don’t let democracy be in the hands of elites,” said Jokowi. “Democracy must be held by the people.”
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo remarked that the speed of service is the key to bureaucratic reform as one of the national priorities agenda for his next term during his speech in the Indonesia Vision event last July in Bogor, West Java.
Wang Jen-shu, the first ambassador to Indonesia of the People’s Republic of China, spent a troubled couple of years as Beijing’s man in Jakarta in the early 1950s.
“I ask that all Indonesians pray that he gets well soon. I ask for everyone’s help in fighting radicalism and terrorism because we can only do it together.”
Australia is fortunate to have a neighbour to its north that is largely unified. Predictable, if unspectacular, growth has “helped Indonesia consolidate democracy”.
The recent protests have signified the largest student movement since the fall of Soeharto’s regime in 1998. But today, there is no single, clearly defined enemy.
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Sukarno’s granddaughter and the daughter of former President Megawati Sukarnoputri, was unanimously elected as House speaker.
Hundreds of high school and university students gathered near the national Parliament in Jakarta on Monday. Police used tear gas to disperse the protesters after sundown.
Analysts expressed concern that the recent developments could hamper Indonesia’s efforts to combat corruption, or worse still, shake the foundations of democracy in the country.
