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Govt asks public markets to encourage 'shopping without packaging'

The Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), as part of Earth Day commemorations, urged public markets to help ...

GLIDE launches inaugural awards for disease elimination

The Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE), a new Abu Dhabi-based global health Institute focused on ...

Moeldoko reveals plan of action on corruption

Chief of Presidential Staff, Moeldoko, has explained 12 points of action that will be carried out by the National ...

Role of civil society organizations paramount to steering development

The National Development Planning Ministry/National Development Planning (KPPN/Bappenas) highlighted that the existence ...

Finance Ministry, BPKP move to strengthen state budget oversight

The Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu) and the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) have signed a memorandum ...

MUI showers praise on President for reversing liquor regulation

The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) lauded President Joko Widodo for revoking a regulation allowing investments in the ...

Indonesia should work jointly through cooperation for better future

- and the Korean Embassy in Jakarta in cooperation with the Bappenas, Embassy of Denmark, and P4G Global Hub. The ...

Indonesia, Germany agree to support clean energy transition

The governments of Indonesia and Germany have agreed to support efforts towards clean energy transition under the ...

Fostering Green Recovery Towards More Inclusive Economies in Asia

How to rebuild and transform economies post COVID-19 while confronting the climate crisis? The pandemic reminded us of ...

Opinion

Science has delivered, will the WTO deliver?

A proposal by India, South Africa and eight other countries calls on the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to exempt ...

ANTARA's Choice

Book review -Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

At a time when differences can spark an armed conflict, or even war, one only needs to leaf through the iconic 2006 ...

News Focus

Komnas HAM accomplishes mission to uncover FPI shooting case

The National Commission on Human Rights' (Komnas HAM's) team of investigators concluded a probe into the fatal ...

Alliance presses for police accountability in deaths of FPI members

Some 10 human rights watchdogs grouped in a civil society alliance highlighted the need for the Indonesian police to ...

Rights body ropes in weapons maker's experts for ballistic testing

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) team of investigators on Wednesday handed over several substantial ...

Year Ender 2020

ASEAN's concrete actions paramount to ending Rohingya's misery

Some 399 Rohingya boat people, including women and children, were stranded in Aceh, Indonesia's westernmost ...