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Hearing aid supply fails to meet global needs: Health Ministry

The current number of hearing aids could not meet the needs of all deaf patients worldwide, according to the Health ...

Legislator backs gov't's proposal to convert BSI into state-owned bank

House of Representatives' (DPR RI's) Commission VI legislator, Achmad Badrowi, supports the government's ...

Military, police officers must not meddle in democracy: President

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) on Tuesday asked Indonesian military and police officers to refrain from meddling in ...

No country suspends elections for securing economic growth stability

No single country in the world postpones general elections on the pretext of maintaining economic growth stability, ...

Proposal to suspend elections lacks firm legal basis: Politician

Secretary General of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) Hasto Kristiyanto has brushed aside a proposal ...

Just solution for Myanmar people cannot be delayed: President Jokowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has called for an immediate and just solution for the Myanmar people, saying they have a ...

Not all expressions of dislike classified as hate speech: commission

The National Commission on Human Rights has emphasized that not all expressions of dislike should be interpreted as ...

Women in parliament should pioneer cultural advancement: Legislator

Women in the parliament should continue to be pioneers in the advancement of Indonesian culture that includes batik, ...

Gov't respects efforts to lodge judicial review on old-age insurance

The government respects efforts from public members to lodge a judicial review to the ministry's regulation on ...

Presidential threshold within the presidential system

Presidential threshold, the number of votes a political party must garner to put forward a presidential candidate, has ...

Women's political representation and gender-friendly policies

Women's political representation is not only meaningful in terms of fulfilling the quota of 30 percent within the ...

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Responding to challenges of press in the age of digitalization

The development of information technology has created disruption in various fields, one of which is the print media ...

Press should continue playing its role in building Indonesia: Minister

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD has encouraged the press to continue to play ...

Publisher right paramount to handling digital feudalism: Press Council

The Indonesian press requires a regulation on publisher rights to address the phenomenon of digital feudalism wherein ...

National Press Day momentum to assert press as democratic pillar

Indonesian Journalists Association (PWI) Chairperson Atal S. Depari opined that the 2022 National Press Day ...