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News feature - Art as a means of survival By Aria Cindyara

Amid the lack of recognition and stigma towards mental health issues, Hana Alfikih has somehow found her way to make ...

Media Alert: Monash University experts

-Media Alert Monash University has several experts available for comment on a range of topics relating to the festive ...

Finance ministry to launch portal for auction

The Ministry of Finance will launch a website named lelang.go.id to facilitate people to participate in the auction ...

Health office encourages people to not create stigma around HIV/AIDS

The Health Office has encouraged citizens to not create a stigma around HIV/AIDS and to not discriminate against ...

Domestic workers are often invisible: ILO

Domestic workers are invisible in many ways due to the working conditions that they are often put under, Director of ...

Twenty-seven mayors sign HIV/AIDS declaration in West Java

Twenty-seven mayors in West Java Province, Indonesia, signed an HIV/AIDS Declaration to demonstrate their leadership ...

Welcoming Lebaran Day

The Eid al-Fitr or Lebaran Day, which is celebrated next Sunday in Indonesia, is the culmination of the month-long ...

Mental health issues should be prioritized

The World Health Organization (WHO) at the end of February declared depression as the single leading cause of ...

Stigma attached to leprosy hampers efforts to control disease: Ministry

Public stigma attached to leprosy is hampering efforts to eradicate the disease in some regions as people afflicted ...

Bin Laden`s son denied entry to Egypt

Osama bin Ladens son Omar was refused entry to Egypt on Saturday (Dec. 17), airport sources said, giving no reason why ...

Health minister promotes voluntary HIV test on World AIDS Day

Indonesias Health Minister Nila F Moeloek has promoted the voluntary HIV test for public during the commemoration of ...

President asks for more integrated efforts to fight terrorism

President Joko Widodo has asked for a more integrated effort to fight terrorism to ensure better results. "The ...

Leprosy still prevalent in some areas

Leprosy is still prevalent in some areas of Indonesia even though the infectious disease is no longer a mystery and ...

Disabled Indonesian delegates attend UN meeting

A total of 18 people with hearing disabilities are in the Indonesian delegation attending the UN meeting on the Rights ...

Ban on communism still in force: Pramono

The Indonesian government has reminded the people that the ban on communism and the decision on dissolution of the ...