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Indonesia's malaria battle: How a woman helps protect Papua's villages

As a new day unfolded, a woman with years of dedication navigated narrow alleys, arriving at a plank house in her ...

A harsher dry season tests Indonesia's fire strategy

Indonesia is moving early to reinforce its defenses against forest and land fires as signs of a prolonged dry season ...

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Red and White Village Co-ops: Big ambition, bigger execution challenge

The direction of Red and White Village Cooperatives is becoming clearer as an initiative to push village economic ...

Rural Indonesia as the new growth frontier amid global uncertainty

In many developing countries, economic transformation often begins in cities and then gradually spreads to the ...

Safeguarding industrial resilience amid plastic supply disruptions

The Middle East conflict has recently disrupted global supplies of raw materials and plastics, which play a key role in ...

Daycare abuse; Momentum to improve child services and protection

The recent revelations of alleged abuse against dozens of children at a daycare in Yogyakarta have outraged the ...

Innovative ready-to-eat meal, practical solution for Hajj logistics

Food, typically an ordinary necessity, can become scarce and highly valued during the Hajj season in Saudi ...

Inside the Baduy’s 200 km sacred journey through the night

Around 3:00 in the morning, while most people were still asleep, dozens of Inner Baduy people walked together through ...

Indonesia rejects Malacca Strait tolls amid global tensions

For days, a question rippled across global shipping lanes and diplomatic circles: would Indonesia follow Iran’s ...

Surabaya's service-based city transformation put to the test

Surabaya, the capital of East Java, remains a hive of activity across its thoroughfares, ports, and shopping centers, ...

"Kartini without medal": Kartika's story of teaching diaspora children

Just call me Dewi Kartika. That sentence came to mind when meeting Dewi Kartikaningrat, a teacher at the Kuala Lumpur ...

Jakarta's janitor fish dilemma: When livelihoods meet cleanup drive

As the Ciliwung River winds through Kalibata in South Jakarta, stories unfold of people striving to see another day by ...

Bandung Conference at 71: Indonesia must not let its spirit die out

The Bandung Conference or the Asian-African Conference, which gave birth to the “Bandung Principles” or ...

Biofuels: Indonesia's strategic shield against energy volatility

Indonesia is navigating renewed turbulence in global energy markets as oil prices fluctuate amid ...

Dasasila Bandung: A moral compass amid polarization

More than seven decades ago, Bandung City in West Java witnessed the birth of a grand vision: a world free from ...