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Administration to launch Medan's Kesawan City Walk revitalization

The Medan administration will launch the revitalization of Kesawan City Walk as the city’s iconic culinary and ...

ANTARA's Choice

Top 5 culinary hotspots to look for in Jakarta's Chinatown

Glodok is famously known as Indonesian capital Jakarta’s Chinatown, with a history dating back 300 centuries to ...

ANTARA photo exhibit turns spotlight to Indonesia's 'founding mother'

Indonesia’s state-owned ANTARA news agency launched a virtual photography exhibition here on Monday  for the ...

Bogor, Cibodas Botanical Gardens reopen to public from July 7

The Bogor and Cibodas Botanical Gardens in Bogor, West Java, will reopen to the public from Tuesday (July 7) after ...

Riau's tourism authority closes 117 destinations to control COVID-19

The Riau provincial administration has temporarily closed 117 tourist destinations throughout the province to stop ...

Dutch King apologizes for past excessive violence

Dutch King Willem Alexander has apologized for excessive violence used during the Netherlands' colonial past in ...

King Willem Alexander returns Prince Diponegoro's "keris" to Jokowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) received a keris that once belonged to Prince Diponegoro from the King and Queen of the ...

ANTARA's Choice

Enthralling cultural experiences in vibrant Jakarta that never sleeps

Life in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital city, never really seems to cease, with the wheels of the economy always ...

Jakarta to organize Batavia China Town Show 2019

The capital city Jakarta will organize the Batavia China Town Show 2019 to showcase the inimitable collaboration ...

Jokowi honors Indonesia's fallen heroes at Kalibata Memorial Park

President Joko Widodo acted as an inspector in the ceremony to commemorate National Heroes Day at the Kalibata ...

Weekend Stories

Reviving the legacy of Sabeni, the Betawi fighter

Sabeni can solely be identified through a black-and-white portrait painting, bearing Sabeni bin Channam 1860-1945, ...

Weekend Stories

Meet "Si Pitung": Betawi's revered bandit, loathed by the rich

In the mid-19th Century, bordering Batavia, Jakarta’s old city under Dutch colonial government, the powerless, ...

Jokowi confers National Hero titles on first UGM rector, five figures

Six figures were bestowed the honor of national hero by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) prior to the commemoration of ...

Semarang city government plans to build autonomous rail transit: mayor

The Semarang city administration plans to build an Autonomous Rail Transit (ART) system to offer its residents with ...

Discovering Jakarta

Kali Besar, an ocular feast in the old town of Jakarta

One afternoon in a park around Kali Besar in Kota Tua, West Jakarta, a group of youngsters was engrossed in preparing ...