#social affairs

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Social affairs ministry launches new child services line

Indonesias Minister for Social Affairs Khofifah Indar Parawansa has launched a new hotline number to report abuse ...

Post-Lebaran urbanization is normal phenomenon: Minister

Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa said the migration of village residents to urban areas ...

385.5 tons of beef illegally imported to Indonesia in 2016

Indonesias Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro said the surge in beef smuggling or illegal beef imports in 2016 have ...

Social affairs minister oversees evacuees in Purworejo

Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa visited and reviewed the state of the evacuees in Purworejo District, ...

Rescue workers retrieve four more bodies of landslide victims

Workers of a joint rescue team on Tuesday found four more bodies of landslide victims in Purworejo District, Central ...

President instructs parties to coordinate to help landslide, flood victims

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has instructed his ministers and related officials to coordinate to assist the victims ...

Handling vagrants, beggars is a long-term program: Minister Khofifah

Handling vagrants and beggars, locally known as "gepeng," is a long-term program to be implemented by setting up ...

Government to withdraw 16,500 child laborers in 2016

The government is targeting to withdraw 16,500 child laborers in 2016 to support the "Keluarga Harapan" Program in 138 ...

Indonesian ambassadors appointed to key committees of UN

Three Indonesian diplomats were chosen by acclamation as head of a number of main committees of the United Nations ...

President Jokowi holds closed-door meeting with national commission for women

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) held a closed-door meeting with commissioners of the National Commission for ...

President Jokowi supports discussion on sexual violence bill

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) supported the discussion on the bill on Elimination of Sexual Violence initiated by the ...

Politicians, activists laud new govt regulation on child protection

Politicians and child protection activists have lauded the issuance of Government Regulation No. 1 of 2016, which is ...

Rapists-cum-murderers deserve harsh punishment

More and more horrific and brutal rape-cum-murders have been reported across the country lately even as the public and ...

Pornography claimed to be strongest causal factor in sexual assaults

Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa has identified pornography as the most dominant causal factor in ...

Flash flood in Subang displaces hundreds of villagers

Hundreds of residents of Sukakerti Village in Cisalak Sub-district, Subang District, West Java, were displaced due to ...