#new year celebrations

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New Year eve celebrations banned across Indonesia

New Year eve celebrations have been banned across Indonesia to prevent crowding and curb potential transmission of the ...

Temperature checks conducted at Jakarta Cathedral

The devout congregating at the Jakarta Cathedral Church to attend the Christmas 2020 Mass face-to-face underwent ...

Jakarta Police, Kodam Jaya deploy 300 personnel to secure festivities

The Jakarta Police, the Jayakarta Military Command (Kodam Jaya), and the provincial government of DKI Jakarta have ...

MPR applauds police thwarting crystal meth smuggling to fund terrorism

People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Chairman Bambang Soesatyo praised the police for foiling an attempt to smuggle ...

TNI's Hercules plane to transport residents to Wamena for Christmas

The Indonesian military (TNI) has readied a Hercules plane to transport Jayapura residents keen on returning home to ...

Cathedral Church limits number of worshippers for Christmas worship

The Jakarta Cathedral Church has limited the number of worshipers allowed to attend the 2020 Christmas worship to 20 ...

PGI urges churches to make Christmas, New Year celebrations virtual

General secretary of the Indonesian Communion of Churches (PGI), Jacky Manuputty, on Monday appealed to churches across ...

House Speaker seeks government's guarantee on COVID-19 vaccine safety

Speaker of the House of Representatives Puan Maharani called on the government to make assurance of the safety and ...

West Java's COVID-19 cases increase a fortnight after long holidays

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in West Java rose two weeks after the long holidays in late October, though the ...

Weekend Stories

Celebrating unity in diversity as Chinese New Year arrives

The town has been painted red, quite literally, symbolizing good fortune, luck, abundance, and joy to enliven the 2571 ...

A sea of lanterns bedazzle Singkawang's Chinese New Year celebrations

Singkawang City in West Kalimantan has been bedecked with some 10 thousand festive red lanterns, emblematic of the ...

Year Ender 2019

2019: Heartfelt thank-you and adieu

With 2019 drawing to a close so quickly, regardless of whether one is ready, it is almost time to bid adieu. New ...

200 Satpol PP personnel to provide security on Thamrin-Sudirman strip

Some 200 Central Jakarta Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) personnel will be stationed along Jenderal Sudirman-MH Thamrin ...

No MUI fatwa issued on conveying Christmas greetings to Christians

The Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI) Vice Chairman Zainut Tauhid Saadi tendered a clarification that the council had ...

Papuan Christians prepare to attend Christmas Eve services

Christians in Biak Numfor District, Papua Province, prepared to visit churches on Tuesday to partake in Christmas Eve ...