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Indonesian women remain marginalized: Academician

When viewed from the health and educational aspects, Indonesian women remain in a marginal position, or continue to be ...

Agency to restore over 800 thousand hectares of peatland areas

Two months after its establishment, the Indonesia Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) has claimed that it is now ...

Counterterrorism Actions Must Uphold Human Rights

The Indonesian government has been working to strengthen its Special Detachment (Densus) 88 counterterrorism squad by ...

Jokowi congratulates new Myanmar president Htin Kyaw

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has congratulated Htin Kyaw on being elected the new president of Myanmar. "On ...

Establishment of Indonesia`s Peatland Restoration Agency lauded

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) installed Nazir Foead, former conservation director at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), ...

RI must protect its citizens overeseas from ISIS` influence

Indonesia, which has millions of migrant workers overseas, particularly in the Middle East, should protect them from ...

Two Indonesian ISIS suspects repatriated by S Korea

Two of the three Indonesian migrant workers who were suspected to have links with the ISIS radical group have returned ...

Indonesia considering exclusive prison for terrorists, pre-emptive detention powers

The Indonesian government is preparing to effect a revision in Law No. 15 Year 2003 on counter-terrorism, following a ...

Greenpeace hails establishment of Peatland Restoration Agency

Greenpeace has hailed the governments decision to establish a Peatland Restoration Agency and the appointment of ...

Three Indonesians detained in South Korea for links to ISIS

The Indonesian Migrant Workers Agency has claimed that at least three migrant workers were detained in South Korea for ...

Boycott needed to force Israel to end occupation in Palestine

Supporters of Palestine around the world are promoting a BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) movement to force ...

Indonesia faces international sanctions if labor strike handled violently: Activist

Indonesia will face international sanctions if the state apparatus were to take repressive and violent measures ...

Government must protect small-scale food producers: Activist

The government needs to protect small-scale food producers in various parts of the country as part of its efforts to ...

Emirati rights activist wins Nobel prize for human rights

An Emirati human rights activist barred from leaving his home country was on Tuesday named the 2015 winner of an award ...

Recording Artist SIR IVAN Kicks off Transgender Awareness Campaign With Special Screening of a New Documentary titled "SIR IVAN: I Am Peaceman"

- Pop-dance recording artist SIR IVAN aka "Peaceman" announced today he is kicking off a campaign to raise awareness of ...