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Indonesia administers vaccines to almost 2,000 foreign refugees

The Indonesian Government has administered COVID-19 vaccine doses to almost two thousand foreign refugees in a bid to ...

Indonesia receives over 240,000 AstraZeneca doses from UK

Indonesia has received 243,440 AstraZeneca vaccine doses from the United Kingdom government as an expression of its ...

Jakarta Governor lauds collaboration for vaccinating asylum seekers

Governor of Jakarta Anies Baswedan has attributed inter-party collaboration as one reason for the successful ...

ASEAN+3 region projected to clock 6.1-percent growth in 2021

The ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) estimates that the ASEAN+3 region will grow by 6.1 percent this year ...

Regions with extreme poverty to receive two additional benefits: VP

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin confirmed that two additional social benefits will be allocated to regions with cases of ...

Baswedan affirms vaccinating asylum seekers is humanitarian task

Governor of Jakarta Anies Baswedan emphasized that vaccination for foreign refugees or asylum seekers stranded in ...

300 foreigners receive first COVID-19 dose at Jakarta City Hall

Three hundred foreign nationals received their first COVID-19 vaccine dose at Jakarta City Hall as part of a program ...

Ovarian cysts pose risk to women of all ages: Expert

Dr. Syamel M SpOG K.Onk, Obstetrics and Gynecology Specialist and Consultant Oncology at Semen Padang Hospital, ...

Sharia economy progressing well, growing promisingly: VP Amin

Indonesia's sharia economy has progressed well and holds promise, with the country moving up in the rankings of the ...

Over 8.5 million Jakarta residents get first COVID-19 vaccine jabs

Over 8.5 million residents of Jakarta received their first shots of the COVID-19 vaccine as of Monday, thereby ...

Asylum seekers in Jakarta get vaccinated for humanitarian reason: govt

The Jakarta administration cited humanitarian reasons for proposing that foreign refugees and asylum seekers in the ...

Inter-agency meetings organized to discuss foreign refugee handling

The Indonesian Ministry of Law and Human Rights as well as the Foreign Affairs Ministry held inter-agency coordination ...

Medan refugees demonstrate for speedy resettlement in third countries

Several asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Iraq held a peaceful rally in front of the United ...

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Wenda's political gambit backfires in Papua

On December 1, 2020, Papuan separatist leader Benny Wenda declared an “interim government” in West Papua ...

MPR supports Indonesian government to act sternly against Benny Wenda

People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) speaker Bambang Soesatyo appealed to the Indonesian government to act sternly ...