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Jakarta governor seeks government support to expand COVID-19 testing

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has sought the central government’s support to increase COVID-19 testing, ...

Flash flood wrecks hundreds of houses in Bandar Lampung

A flash flood claimed one life and destroyed hundreds of houses in the Lampung provincial capital of ...

Air carrier industry requires government incentive amid COVID-19

Indonesia's air carrier industry is in dire need of the government's incentive after the number of passengers ...

News Feature

Life in the time of coronavirus

From Milan, Italy, to New York, the US, and Manila, Filipina, people avoid streets, as countries have closed down ...

Working visit budgets channeled to assist Indonesians in need

A top Indonesian minister spoke of the working visit budget encompassing domestic and overseas trips being diverted to ...

Indonesia has huge research funds but few researchers

Indonesia's research funding has reached Rp27 trillion which is much higher than those of the Philippines and ...

News Focus

Salvaging Papuan children's future from threats of alcohol addiction

Mimika Chapter Ros Namsa Kabes has urged the Mimika district government and local police to enforce legal sanctions ...

Jayapura port's police seize 157 bottles of liquor from MV Labobar

Mimika Chapter Ros Namsa Kabes has urged the Mimika district government and local police to enforce legal sanctions ...

Minister stresses on Indonesia bolstering economic structure

The Indonesian government must strengthen the economic structure to realize more stable growth in the face of global ...

Police detain 19 people over clash in West Java's Karawang

The Police in West Java's Karawang District took 19 people into detention over their involvement in a clash that ...

Weekend Stories

When it is raining: Create a weekend book club

“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.” Vladimir Nabokov, a ...

Industrial area immune to impacts of flooding: HKI

Indonesia's Association of Industrial Estates (HKI) Chairperson Sanny Iskandar confirmed that industrial estates ...

Command post confirms 31,232 Jakarta residents fled inundated homes

A total of 31,232 residents of Jakarta were compelled to flee their flooded homes as of Wednesday night, according to ...

Emergency alert status announced in Riau following flash floods

The Riau provincial administration declared an emergency alert status over the ongoing threats of flood and landslide ...

Riau's flash floods, landslide claim six lives

Six people died as flash floods and a landslide hit certain areas in Riau Province, Riau Disaster Mitigation ...