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Conservation efforts put Curiak Island on the map --- literally

Caption: A group of tourists at Curiak Island, which is home to proboscis monkeys (nasalis larvatus), known locally as ...

Despite restrictions, Lunar new year traditions remain strong

Friday marks the beginning of the 15-day Lunar New Year festival, when lanterns normally brighten Chinatowns across the ...

Rp27.58 trillion allocated for infrastructure financing through SBSN

A total of Rp27.58 trillion has been allocated for financing infrastructure projects through State Sharia Securities ...

TNI commander visits Timika before heading for Makassar

Indonesian Military (TNI) Commander Air Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto planned a meeting with several Papuan community ...

Bali's Sanglah Public Hospital cremates 30 abandoned corpses

The Sanglah Public Hospital collaborated with Bali Province's Social Affairs Office to cremate 30 corpses abandoned ...

MessageBird raises $200M Series C, at $3B valuation, as global demand for leading Omnichannel Platform-as-a-Service (OPaaS) surges during lockdown

MessageBird, the world’s leading omnichannel cloud communications platform, has today announced the closing of a new ...

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Five Mountains Festival: Solemn prayer for safety during pandemic

With the sun beaming brightly, wind blowing gently, and birds chirping merrily, nothing seemed out-of-the-ordinary that ...

Weekend Stories

Places of worship adapt to new normal, strive for safety

  On July 4 this year, as the Hindu congregation in Jakarta celebrated Saraswati Day, Dewa Wiguna visited the ...

Weekend Stories

Fasting during the COVID-19 outbreak

Each year, Muslims around the world fast during the holy month of Ramadhan, as part of traditional rituals of ...

Jakarta police operate 24-hour PSBB checkpoints to contain COVID-19

The Jakarta Metropolitan Police has announced that large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) checkpoints will be ...

Provincial govt bans celebration activities during PSBB in Jakarta

The provincial government of Jakarta has banned people from engaging in celebration activities drawing congregations ...

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Hindus chant mantras, burn incense at home amid pandemic

In the time of pandemic, a visit to a religious place could potentially be a matter of life-and-death as it would ...

News Focus

Confucians, Buddhists urged to remain home due to coronavirus

Today is supposed to be another significant day for Confucians when they would have performed religious prayer over ...

News Focus

Prayers at home to fight COVID-19 spread

Death toll from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Indonesia has reached 181, as 11 others died in the past 24 ...