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Campaigners, experts to host conference on local wisdom to protect environment

Groups of campaigners and experts will host an international conference on Indonesias diverse local wisdom to protect, ...

W Sumatra donates over Rp2 billion for Rohingya

The people and provincial government of West Sumatra have donated more than Rp2 billion for Rohingya refugees, ...

Saudi king decrees women be allowed to drive

Saudi King Salman on Tuesday ordered that women be allowed to drive cars, ending a conservative tradition seen by ...

Maritime sector can overcome impact of drought: Activist

Various maritime resources can be utilized to help overcome the impact of drought in various regions, an activist ...

Baswedan`s wife calls on president to form joint fact-finding team

Rina Emilda, wife of Novel Baswedan, senior investigator of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), has called on ...

Ministry to renew data on Indonesian nationals overseas

The ministries of Foreign Affairs, Home Affairs, Immigration Office, as well as Indonesian Migrant Workers Placement ...

Chinese Nobel rights activist Liu Xiaobo released on medical parole

Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winning rights activist Liu Xiaobo has been released from prison on medical parole and is ...

87 houses damaged in Poso quake

The 6.6-magnitude earthquake which hit Poso district, Central Sulawesi province, on May 29 has lightly and seriously ...

NGO calls for firm action against illegal logging in Mt Leuser area

Indonesian Environmental Forum (Walhi) has urged legal enforcers to take firm action against illegal logging ...

Sympathetic rally 55 to not exert pressure on court: GNPF-MUI

The May 5 (55) rally is not being held to apply pressure on the court that tends to indict Jakarta Governor Basuki ...

President Jokowi meets social activists to discuss education

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) met several activists engaged in promoting the reading culture across Indonesia, ...

Malala to become youngest UN Messenger of Peace

Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is to become the youngest United Nations Messenger of ...

A tale of S Kalimantan`s enviromental movement

Greening is a movement in the hands of Forum Komunitas Hijaus (Green Community Forum/FKH) founders. They have ...

Indian Nobel laureate relieved after peace medal replica found

Indias 2014 Nobel Peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi has expressed his relief and gratitude to police for recovering a ...

Gere faults Trump for blurring meaning of "refugee & terrorist"

Actor and activist Richard Gere said that U.S. President Donald Trump has managed to merge the meaning of the words ...