Category: Indonesia
Decapitated Sumatran elephant found dead in Indonesia
A Sumatran elephant was found decapitated with its tusks ripped off in an apparent poaching of the critically endangered subspecies, an Indonesian conservation official said. [...]
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Indonesia begins restructuring of 430,000 civil servant jobs
The government has begun an assessment of middle and lower job positions at state institutions in the first nationwide move to streamline the bureaucracy in the country that [...]
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WB points to learning poverty afflicting one-third Indonesian children
Over one-third of the children in Indonesia experience learning poverty, or are incapable of reading and comprehending simple text by the age of 10, according to the World [...]
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Govt to help fishermen by granting seized fishing vessels
Marine Affairs and Fisheries minister Edhy Prabowo echoed the government’s intent to grant seized fishing vessels, for which final court rulings were already passed, to [...]
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Luxury lizards: Governor proposes $1,000 annual membership to enter Komodo National Park
East Nusa Tenggara governor Viktor Bungtilu Laiskodat has proposed an annual membership fee to access Komodo National Park on Komodo Island as the administration seeks to [...]
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Indonesia sees no bailout for troubled life insurer, eyes fraud
Indonesia does not intend to bail out a state-owned life insurer that needs an injection of more than $2 billion, the finance ministry said on Wednesday, after reports that [...]
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Indonesia rejects US statement on illegal Israeli settlement
Indonesia has emphasized its position on the Palestine-Israel conflict by rejecting the United States (US) statement on Monday, November 18, which backs Israel to establish [...]
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Indonesia arrests 43 people following suicide attack
Indonesian police said Monday that they have arrested 43 suspected militants believed to have links to last week’s suicide attack at a busy police station in the [...]
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Indonesia to build frontier military base near South China Sea
Indonesia is planning to fortify its borders by setting up three new Indonesian Military (TNI) bases around its northern and eastern fronts, including one in Riau Islands [...]
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Indonesia’s competition watchdog looks into nickel sector after cartel complaint
Indonesia’s anti-monopoly agency has begun a preliminary study of the country’s nickel smelting sector, an agency official said on Monday, after a miners’ [...]
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Indonesia, Burma keen to keep bilateral trade growing
More than 30 Myanmar business people attended the Indonesia-Myanmar Business Gathering at a hotel in Yangon last week. The gathering organised by the Indonesian Embassy in [...]
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Beautiful bay, not a colonial palace: Jokowi asks for iconic new capital
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo wants the new Indonesian capital city to become the most iconic in the world by making use of Balikpapan Bay in East Kalimantan to [...]
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Jokowi’s curious plan for Indonesia’s capital
After winning a second and final term, Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced, “I have no burden now. I’m not thinking about next elections… so I will [...]
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Medco E&P to begin production at Temelat gas block in South Sumatra next month
The government expects the Temelat gas field in South Sumatra to begin production in early December, one month behind schedule. The Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Task Force [...]
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Indonesia’s fading democracy dream
When Indonesian President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo triggered mass protests in September over his support for regressive amendments to the Criminal Code and the [...]
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