Indonesia had passed the peak of the latest Covid-19 wave driven by Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, with a relatively lower number of daily cases and deaths compared to other countries or the previous waves, Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin said this week.
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A new report has found there is an urgent need to address the barriers that women from refugee backgrounds face in accessing paid work.
In December 2018 three Yolngu artists from north-east Arnhem Land arrived in Makassar, South Sulawesi, to retrace the sea-faring trade relationships of their ancestors.
Garuda Indonesia (GIAA.JK) has halved its debt and achieved comparable cuts to aircraft leasing costs in negotiations that have set the airline up for profitability, the Indonesian government said on Tuesday.
Foot-and-mouth disease, a contagious viral disease for cattle, sheep, goats and pigs, resurfaced in Indonesia in May after the country had been declared free of it for over 30 years.
Indonesian artists have rejected claims of anti-Semitism levelled at them following the opening of an exhibition in Germany.
Fellow villagers have praised an Indonesian man for capturing a crocodile measuring 4.3 meters (14.1 feet) on the island of Sulawesi using just a rope.
Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR RI) Puan Maharani has urged the people to always implement health protocols.
Bureaucratic rivalry and overlapping mandates have prevented the country from pushing ahead with a planned data protection bill.
During this week’s press briefing on Monday 27th June, Minister Uno shared the news that the much anticipated Indonesian Digital Nomad Visa is entering the final stages of preparation and will soon be open for applications.
Analysts in Indonesia, like Dandy Rafitrandi, an economics researcher at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), said that “participating would still benefit Indonesia, even if it remains unclear what real commitments the US will offer.
Several countries have asked Indonesia for rice, hoping the world’s third-largest producer of the grain can help them overcome shortages at home, but experts and farmers see little chance of Indonesia becoming a major exporter in the foreseeable future.
Former President Megawati Soekarnoputri, the long-serving chair of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), has been widely criticised for comments she made at her party’s 2022 National Meeting on 21 June.
Indonesian lawmakers will discuss a plan to legalise marijuana for medicinal purposes, after a mother’s plea for the treatment for her child spread widely online.
Indonesia is one of the nations that has the most important bilateral relationship with Australia, with education being one of these important aspects.
Buy now, pay later services take off in Southeast Asian country where most people don’t have a bank account.
