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Malaysian Prime Minister to visit Indonesia to forge bilateral ties

Malaysian Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s planned visit to Indonesia will forge bilateral relations and ...

Government pledges to environmental preservation in Job Creation Law

Coordinating Economic Affairs Minister Airlangga Hartarto echoed the government’s commitment to protecting the ...

OIC CFM to organize 47th session in Niamey, Niger

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) General Secretariat will hold the 47th Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) ...

Minister Prabowo strives for tourism revival in Nias Pesisir

Marine Affairs and Fisheries Minister Edhy Prabowo is firmly resolved to breathe new life into the tourism sector in ...

News Feature

Awaiting Indonesia's COVID-19 vaccine in a careful and cautious way

Indonesia has been adopting cautious and prudent approaches in its endeavors to ably fight the novel coronavirus ...

News Feature

Outrage grows over Macron remarks

French President Emmanuel Macron's “anti-Islam" remarks while arguing for "freedom of ...

Muhammadiyah denounces French president's 'anti-Islam' remarks

The central executive board of Muhammadiyah, Indonesia’s second largest Islamic organization after the Nahdlatul ...

News Focus

Papuans split over status quo on autonomy

Over the past few months, several sections of communities in the Indonesian province of Papua have been deliberating ...

LIPI launches three books on native Papuans

The Center for Demographic Research under the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) has launched three books on the ...

Opinion

Network of Epistemic Community: New hope for the future

Gita L. Murti is Deputy Director of Socio-cultural Cooperation of Ministry of Foreign Affairs The current ...

News Feature

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 ...

North Sumatra readies Rp500-billion for 2nd-phase handling of COVID-19

The North Sumatra provincial government readied allocation of Rp500 billion for second phase of handling the impacts of ...

Hundreds of Indonesian crews of Germany's AIDA Cruises return home

As many as 239 Indonesian crew members  of AIDAstella and AIDAnova cruise ships have returned home aboard a ...

ASEAN-US ties should boost COVID-19 handling efforts: Minister

Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi, at a ministerial-level videoconference meeting between ASEAN and the ...

Opinion

Stranded far from home: the protection of Indonesian migrant workers

*Hana Naufanita is a research intern at the Jakarta-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies ...