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Govt involved public in job creation bill deliberations: minister

Minister of Manpower, Ida Fauziyah, has said that the process of drafting the omnibus bill on job creation involved ...

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Implementing health protocols in wet markets remains challenging

  With Indonesia implementing the new normal, now being referred to as “adapting to new habits”, ...

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Indonesian Government insists lockdown not an option yet

The question of imposing a nationwide lockdown in Indonesia is continuing to spark debate even as the authorities are ...

Government to verify citizenship status of ex-ISIS combatants

The government plans to verify the citizenship status of former ISIS combatants from Indonesia in response to the ...

Indonesia yet undecided on repatriating ex-foreign ISIS fighters

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) hinted at uncertainty over repatriation of some 600 ex-members of the legion of foreign ...

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Sympathy and lessons learnt from Indonesia's emergency evacuation

The novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan has posed a grave challenge to Mainland China, with the death toll burgeoning ...

Govt, Parliament in loggerheads during KPK bill deliberation: Jokowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) pointed to the friction between the government and House of Representatives (DPR) while ...

Syamsuddin rejects KPK Law revision plan over debilitating impact

Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) Advisory Board Chairman Din Syamsuddin rejected a plan to revise the Law on KPK ...

House to approve new KPK leaders at Monday's plenary session

The Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) is scheduled to approve five commissioner candidates of the Corruption ...

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Relocating Indonesia's capital to Kalimantan, 'the world's lungs'

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) on August 16, 2019, officially announced his plan to move Indonesia’s capital city ...

Rais exhorts government to delay capital city relocation

National Mandate Party (PAN) patron Amien Rais has appealed to the central government to delay its plan to move ...

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Awaiting people's participation in new capital city-related decision

The Indonesian Government's decision to relocate the country's capital city from Jakarta to East Kalimantan ...

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Jokowi-Prabowo: Crossing the bridge from rivalry to synergy

"From rivalry to synergy!" are wise words that best describe the process of reconciliation between the camps ...

Sea-level rise poses threat to Jakarta, Semarang, Demak coastal areas

Rising sea levels and decreasing land surface, driven by global climate change, pose an existential crisis to coastal ...

Prabowo Subianto meets with Megawati Soekarnoputri

Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party Chairman Prabowo Subianto met Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) ...