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Preservation efforts intensified for Enggano Island's green turtles

The habits of people of Enggano Island, a 400-square-kilometer island in Enggano District, Bengkulu Province, have ...

MUI protests cremation of Muslim COVID victims in Sri Lanka

The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has lodged a protest with the Sri Lankan government over its decision to cremate all ...

Minister lauds agreement on 2021 priority legislative program list

Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly opined that agreement on the 33 bills listed in the 2021 Priority National ...

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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 ...

President appoints minister, deputy minister of health

President Joko Widodo appointed Budi Gunadi Sadikin as Minister of Health and Dante Saksono Harbuwono as his deputy ...

Drug hauls point to burgeoning drug problem in Aceh: police

Aceh police seized a huge cache of drugs this year in numerous raids, which shows drug-trafficking remains a serious ...

Habib Rizieq Shihab writes from prison cell, urges patience

Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) leader Habib Rizieq Shihab has written a letter from his cell at the Jakarta Metropolitan ...

MUI demands fair law enforcement for public sense of justice

The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) pressed for applying fair law enforcement in the case of Islam Defenders Front (FPI) ...

Jakarta police to act firmly against those harming diversity

Chief of the Jakarta Metropolitan Police Inspector General Fadil Imran has vowed to take firm action against mass ...

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Wenda's political gambit backfires in Papua

On December 1, 2020, Papuan separatist leader Benny Wenda declared an “interim government” in West Papua ...

Govt, military, police urged to maintain state authority in Papua

Responding to the recent developments in Papua and West Papua, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives (DPR), ...

Bawaslu urges pilkada participants to apply health protocols

The Election Supervisory Board (Bawaslu) warned participants of the 2020 simultaneous regional head elections (pilkada) ...

OIC urges measures to protect women from violence

Secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr. Yousef A. Al-Othaimeen, has urged OIC member ...

President upbeat economic policies will benefit businesses

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said he is optimistic that the economic policies rolled out by the government amid the ...