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PLN completes 27 electricity infrastructure projects in 2021

State-owned electricity company PT PLN said it has completed 27 electricity infrastructure projects valued at Rp3.3 ...

Higher Internet use has upped gender-based violence risk: minister

The increase in Internet use amid the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the risk of online gender-based violence (GBV), ...

Commission to help address issues of people with disabilities

Social Affairs Minister Tri Rismaharini has lauded the newly-established National Commission for Disabilities, saying ...

E Java govt must function accordingly to handle unemployment: Senator

Regional Representative Council (DPD) Chief A. A. La Nyalla Mahmud Mattalitti urged the East Java provincial government ...

Death penalty highest form of violence against women: Komnas Perempuan

The death penalty is the highest form of gender-based torture, discrimination, and violence against women, Chief of the ...

Indonesia poised to become seventh-largest economy globally by 2030

Indonesia can become the world's seventh-largest economy by 2030 in the event of swift and apposite growth in ...

BANDAI NAMCO Group's co-creation program, "GUNDAM x Future Technology," to face social issues; "GUNDAM OPEN INNOVATION" application period extended

- Special Content from Directors behind Yokohama's "moving GUNDAM" Available through Official Website; New ...

Legislator urges Surabaya government to increase number of bottle ATMs

Legislator from Surabaya's Regional Legislative Council (DPRD) from Commission C, William Wirakusuma, requested the ...

How Surabaya students raised over Rp1 billion for COVID handling

A sense of empathy among students affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in Surabaya, East Java has given birth to a social ...

House Speaker: Annual session to strengthen state institutions

Speaker of the House of Representatives Puan Maharani said she expected Monday's sessions at the Parliamentary ...

Indonesian Red Cross praises public initiatives to tackle pandemic

Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) Secretary General Sudirman Said lauded people's initiative to assist ...

Sectoral digital transformation spurred by pandemic: IATI

The COVID-19 pandemic has driven digital transformation across nearly all strategic sectors of Indonesia, including ...

Indonesia joins push for sustainable health through GHSP

At the Global Health Summit earlier this year, President Joko Widodo had exhorted G20 countries to "take part to ...

Pegasus Tech Ventures launches US $50 million fund with Japanet Holdings

Pegasus Tech Ventures (“Pegasus”), a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, announced a partnership ...

Young generation key to advanced Indonesia: LIPI

Head of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) Laksana Tri Handoko believes that the emergence of a prime young ...