Located at Queen Victoria Market Melbourne, the “Taste of Indonesia” event celebrating Indonesia’s 80th independence anniversary was held on 30 and 31 August. This annual culinary festival showcased a variety of Indonesian specialities, including traditional snacks and desserts.
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Located on Batam Island, which is an hour by ferry to Singapore, Mayapada and its partner Apollo Hospitals—owned by Indian billionaire Prathap Reddy—is investing more than 1 trillion rupiah ($65 million) to build a 250-bed hospital in a special economic zone being promoted by the Indonesian government for tourism and healthcare.
The government calls the colossal wall one of its “most vital” initiatives to help coastal communities in Java, which houses more than half of Indonesia’s 280 million citizens, as well as fast-sinking capital Jakarta.
The ambition to develop a career pathway for Indonesian nurses wishing to further their skills in Australia has taken another step following a meeting of industry leaders from both countries.
Embassies in Jakarta, including those of the US, Japan, Australia and Singapore, issued warnings for their citizens in Indonesia to avoid crowds and protest areas.
(Paywalled) – Indonesia and Australia’s joint efforts at sea would target “a full range of maritime threats”, including “those against sovereignty”, human and drug trafficking and environmental crimes, both countries’ ministers said after the 2+2 meeting in Canberra.
To date, domestic workers, often referred to as PRT in Indonesia, still do not receive their rights as workers. This is because they work in the domestic sphere.
More than 2,000 children were infected in East Java province over the past eight months, according to officials who said 16 of the 17 deaths occurred in Sumenep district. Sixteen patients were not immunized and one did not complete the vaccines, according to data from Sumenep District Health Agency.
“Prince Raka and I kept in touch by writing letters. It’s funny to think about now, but this was the 1970s, and there wasn’t a telephone in Ubud. Not even in the palace! I always looked forward to the arrival of an envelope from Bali.”
The Indonesian leader unveiled on Monday the so-called Java North Coast Authority Body, dedicated to overseeing the region locally known as “Pantura Jawa”. This is a term that Indonesians use to refer to the northern coastline of its most populous island, Java.
Indonesia is seeking to attract Australian drugmakers with promises of cheaper clinical trials and faster approvals for new medicines as it pitches itself as an alternative to Donald Trump’s America where regulatory upheaval and a tariff war are putting off foreign firms.
I let the Indonesian tourists watch me, maybe jealous, as I float on my back in the otherworldly waters of Pulau Bair, a remote, uninhabited islet on the northernmost fringe of Kei Kecil, the smallest of the two main Kei Islands — an archipelago of about 250 islets, some of East Indonesia’s lesser-known gems.
People tend to make decisions based on habit, convenience or incentives, rather than purely rational cost-benefit analysis. In Indonesia’s case, instant rewards like e-wallet cashback or the speed of BI-FAST make digital options feel easier and smarter, even if users do not always consider long-term trade-offs.
The IBP investigative team traveled to Chaoshan, an industrial hub in Guangdong Province, China. The area, home to 30–40 factories producing food trays for global markets, also supplies trays for a number of importers involved in Indonesia’s “Makan Bergizi Gratis” (MBG) or Free Nutritious Meal program for school children.
The 100 new battalions have been established to assist in agriculture, animal husbandry and food security, and will not receive combat training. A spokesperson for the Indonesian defence ministry said he could not release information about the size of the new battalions.
Major brands including Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever have launched the Aceh Sustainable Palm Oil Working Group to align with a new road map for deforestation-free palm oil in the Indonesian province.
