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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 ...

Gold-standard currency can be alternative monetary system

Gold-based money can be an alternative monetary system in the future as it has some excellences over banknotes and ...

Police investigating alleged ISIS-linked flows of funds

The Indonesian National Police (Polri) is investigating the alleged fund transfers made by ISIS activist Bahrun Naim ...

Pidie Jaya earthquake brings back memories of 2004 tsunami

While many people were asleep, a strong shallow earthquake rocked Pidie Jaya and neighboring districts in Aceh ...

Indonesia police arrest another activist over treason

Indonesian police have arrested another activist here early on Friday morning in connection with alleged treason. ...

Evacuation of Aceh earthquake victims continues

The evacuation of victims of the 6.5-magnitude earthquake that rocked Aceh Province on Wednesday (Dec 7) continued on ...