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Empowering older adults to live life to the fullest

Getting old is inevitable; it is a natural phase of human life that should be celebrated with a positive outlook. To ...

Education facilities must prioritize child protection: Minister

Minister of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) Arifah Fauzi emphasized that the development of ...

Presidential regulation to define roles in free meal program

The National Nutrition Agency (BGN) announced that the Presidential Regulation on the Governance of the Free Nutritious ...

Task force to probe into cloves contaminated by Cs-137

The Cesium-137 Task Force will launch an investigation into reports of radioactive contamination in cloves, while also ...

Deputy Agriculture Minister collects data on clove Cs-137 report

Deputy Agriculture Minister Sudaryono responded to a report by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

Myriad facilities await students at Sekolah Rakyat

Social Affairs Minister Saifullah Yusuf pointed out the various facilities provided to students at Sekolah Rakyat, a ...

160 tuition-free Sekolah Rakyat schools operational as of September

The Ministry of Social Affairs stated that as of September 2025, 160 tuition-free schools under the government's ...

Maluku performs first heart bypass, a milestone for eastern Indonesia

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin announced that Maluku Province has successfully performed its first-ever heart ...

West Papua raises MBG task force to prevent food poisoning

The West Papua provincial government has established a task force to oversee the implementation of the Free Nutritious ...

Police turns to DNA testing to identify school collapse victims

The Indonesian Police have announced that DNA testing will be used to identify victims of the Al Khoziny Islamic ...

Nitrite confirmed as cause of mass food poisoning in West Bandung: BGN

The Independent Investigation Team of the National Nutrition Agency (BGN) has identified nitrite as the cause of mass ...

Minister urges public hospitals to support specialist doctor training

Home Affairs Minister Tito Karnavian has called for stronger involvement of regional public hospitals (RSUDs) in ...

Gov't aims to ensure fair competition in tobacco market

Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa reaffirmed the government’s commitment to curb the production and ...

Indonesia intensifies Cs-137 cleanup in Cikande Industrial Zone

The government is undertaking extensive efforts to decontaminate Cesium-137 (Cs-137) in the Cikande Industrial Area, ...

Indonesia treats Cesium-137 exposure cases, no symptoms reported

Indonesia’s Health Ministry confirmed that nine people who tested positive during a whole-body counter (WBC) ...