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Kali Besar, an ocular feast in the old town of Jakarta

One afternoon in a park around Kali Besar in Kota Tua, West Jakarta, a group of youngsters was engrossed in preparing ...

MRT plans to power trains with renewable energy

City-owned MRT Jakarta plans to power its trains with renewable energy to reduce the carbon emission that leads to ...

Jakarta Police arrest int'l drug syndicate members from Malaysia

The West Jakarta Police took into arrest some members of an international drug smuggling syndicate after 30 kilograms ...

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Refugees stare at bleak future after Kalideres Camp closure

An Afghan family-of-six sat on a red-and-blue plastic mat near their tent outdoors at Kalideres refugee camp, West ...

UNHCR affirms resettlement never been an all-encompassing solution

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesperson reiterated, Monday, that resettlement is not a ...

Cannot have more refugee camps like Kalideres: UNHCR

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is unwilling to see more shelters like the one in Kalideres, ...

Kalideres refugees may be 'homeless' after Aug 31

Thousands of refugees sheltered at a temporary camp in Kalideres, West Jakarta, might have no place to go when the ...

News Focus

Refugees stranded for years in Indonesia, feel neglected

Haydee Alnoori, 40, his wife, and five children, one Jakarta-born, demonstrated with Iraqi refugees, brandishing ...

Baswedan puts refugee care onus back on UNHCR, central government

Governor of Jakarta Anies Baswedan has put the onus of refugee care back on the United Nations High Commissioner for ...

Jakarta to cease humanitarian assistance for refugees by August-end

Speaker of the Jakarta provincial parliament Prasetio Edi Marsudi confirmed that the Jakarta administration will put a ...

Unidentified people hurl two Molotov cocktails at Golkar Office

The office of the Golkar Party Central Executive Board in West Jakarta, on Wednesday morning, bore witness to an attack ...

Refugees participate in games to mark Independence Day

Refugees temporarily accommodated at a former building of the West Jakarta military command (Kodim) in Kalideres took ...

Foreign refugees miss celebrating Eid Al-Adha at homes

Several Muslim refugees from Afghanistan and Sudan expressed their yearnings of celebrating Eid Al-Adha (the Islamic ...

Indonesia encourages UNHCR to solve refugee issue

Indonesia is encouraging the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and countries ratifying the 1951 ...

Fire in North Jakarta claims four lives

Four people lost their lives in a fire that engulfed two houses in North Jakarta on Sunday night. "The cause of ...