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May 10, 2022

Agence France-Presse - May 10, 2022

Jayapura (Indonesia) – Indonesian police used water cannon against protesters in the province of Papua on Tuesday, after thousands came out to…

TAPOL Statement - May 10, 2022

TAPOL urges the Indonesian Government to release Jefry Wenda, the spokesperson of the Papuan People's Petition (Petisi Rakyat Papua, PRP) and…

Mongabay - May 10, 2022

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The office of the Indonesian ombudsman says it has found indications of maladministration in the government's…

CNN Indonesia - May 10, 2022

Jakarta – Police arrested at least seven people in relation to a protest action in Jayapura on Tuesday May 10 against the creation of new…

CNN Indonesia - May 10, 2022

Jakarta – Papua Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) Director Emanuel Gobay says that a participant of a demonstration in Jayapura opposing the creation of…

Al Jazeera - May 10, 2022

Aisyah Llewellyn, Medan, Indonesia – Indonesian influencers Indra Kesuma and Doni Salmanan lived the kind of lives most people can only dream of…

May 9, 2022

Jakarta Globe - May 9, 2022

Herman, Jakarta – Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang on Sunday recorded the biggest number of passengers in both arrival and…

Antara News - May 9, 2022

Desi Purnamawati, Resinta S, Jakarta – The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reminded the public to be aware of hot…

Al Jazeera - May 9, 2022

Aisyah Llewellyn, Medan, Indonesia – Indonesia is coming under growing international pressure over its ban on palm oil exports amid soaring food…

ABC News - May 9, 2022

Stephanie Sinclair, Daniel Fitzgerald and Amy Phillips – The Australian government has offered Indonesia financial support to secure a vaccine to…

Bloomberg News - May 9, 2022

Claire Jiao and Grace Sihombing – The Indonesian economy grew steadily in the first quarter as stronger exports helped offset the omicron-induced…

Global Voicecs - May 9, 2022

For nearly 60 years, West Papua, a region in the easternmost stretches of the Indonesian archipelago, has been engaged in one of the longest-…

Jakarta Globe - May 9, 2022

Yudha Baskoro, Jakarta – Dust and coal ash are polluting the low-cost apartment complex of Rusunawa Marunda in Cilincing, North Jakarta.

The…

Jakarta Globe - May 9, 2022

Antara, Jakarta – Civil servants are allowed to work from home this whole week to help ease traffic congestion as millions of people are returning…

Tempo - May 9, 2022

M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – A spokesman for the COVID-19 Task Force, Wiku Adisasmito, confirmed that the enforcement of the public activity…

Tempo - May 9, 2022

Zacharias Wuragil, Jakarta – Two regions in Indonesia in the first seven days of May recorded the highest air temperatures that…

Tempo - May 9, 2022

M Faiz Zaki, Jakarta – The Indonesian Farmers Union (SPI) on Sunday afternoon announced that palm oil farmers had racked up losses amounting to…

CNN Indonesia - May 9, 2022

Jakarta – The Humanitarian Coalition for Papua is urging the authorities to immediately and fully investigate an attack on the Papua Legal Aid…

Phnom Penh Post - May 9, 2022

The Ukraine military offensive and the economic sanctions against Russia are putting Indonesian manufacturers in a tight spot, as increasing…

Tempo - May 9, 2022

Mutia Yuantisya, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) highlighted the procurement of curtains for the official residences of…

Coconuts Jakarta - May 9, 2022

A popular Joe Rogan-esque podcast in Indonesia is facing backlash and calls for boycott from the country's conservatives over a recent episode…

Tempo - May 9, 2022

Antara, Jakarta – Statistics Indonesia recorded a 5.01 percent growth in Indonesia's first-quarter economy (YoY) which is said to be attributed to…

Jakarta Globe - May 9, 2022

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Indonesia recently announced that it so far had detected 15 cases of acute hepatitis.

"There are 15 cases [of…

May 8, 2022

Jakarta Globe - May 8, 2022

Jakarta – Bank Rakyat Indonesia, or BRI, the country's second-largest lender by asset, said its loan disbursement to the small and medium business…

Jakarta Globe - May 8, 2022

Vento Saudale & Heru Andriyanto, Bogor – Police have confiscated an ambulance used to transport a dozen people to the Puncak resort area in…

May 7, 2022

Suara Papua - May 7, 2022

Yance Agapa, Paniai – Amnesty International Indonesia Executive Director Usman Hamid is asking the government to halt the planned gold mine at…

Jakarta Globe - May 7, 2022

Beritasatu, Jakarta – At least 476 people were killed in traffic accidents during the last week of Ramadan and the following three days when…

Jakarta Post Editorial - May 7, 2022

Jakarta – The next governors of Jakarta and the city's residents bear the responsibility to preserve and maximize the use of the newly built…

Jakarta Post - May 7, 2022

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – Bali Governor I Wayan Koster has reiterated that the province will not tolerate any foreign nationals who do not…

UCA News - May 7, 2022

Katharina Reny Lestari – More than 1,600 Indonesia Catholics from 70 countries will participate in the first virtual Easter celebration to be…

UCA News - May 7, 2022

Konradus Epa – Police in West Java province of Indonesia have charged a man with blasphemy for trampling on a Quran and hurting the religious…

UCA News - May 7, 2022

Ryan Dagur – Timor-Leste's government has launched a national program to combat endemic malnutrition that afflicts nearly half of children under…

May 6, 2022

Tabloid JUBI - May 6, 2022

Jayapura, Jubi – Indonesian President Joko Widodo or Jokowi is urged to immediately follow up on the recommendations of the National Commission on…

Al Jazeera - May 6, 2022

Aisyah Llewellyn, Medan, Indonesia – Lampang has been a miner at a community gold mine in Indonesia's East Kalimantan for more than 30 years. Even…

Sydney Morning Herald - May 6, 2022

Mike Foley – An outbreak of the highly infectious foot and mouth disease has been reported in Indonesia's East Java, posing a potential…

Jakarta Post Editorial - May 6, 2022

Jakarta – Accompanied by his only son, fashion designer Didit Hediprasetyo, Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, who also chairs the country's third…

Tempo - May 6, 2022

Mutia Yuantisya, Jakarta – President of the Labour Party Said Iqbal, said that around 100 thousand laborers will hold a rally in front of the…

Kompas.com - May 6, 2022

Ardito Ramadhan, Jakarta – Paramadina University political observer Ahmad Khoirul Umam says that the Greater Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra)…

Jakarta Globe - May 6, 2022

Muhammad Aulia, Jakarta – Four members of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's cabinet will likely run in the 2024 election as either presidential…

May 5, 2022

Reuters - May 5, 2022

Bengaluru – Indonesia's annual economic growth likely remained steady in the first quarter as commodities exports partly offset weak consumer…

Straits Times - May 5, 2022

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – A few more suspected cases of acute hepatitis among children have been reported in Indonesia after the deaths of three…

Channel News Asia - May 5, 2022

Neo Chai Chin, Natuna, Indonesia – The risks are "very high" whenever Natuna fisherman Indra goes to sea. Waves can reach up to eight metres…

Jakarta Post - May 5, 2022

Dina Septiani (360info), Surabaya – A social media cyber war raged throughout Indonesia's past two presidential elections. The effects are still…

Jakarta Post - May 5, 2022

Kornelius Purba – Indonesian policymakers, from the highest to the lowest rung ladder, need to read and discuss with open minds an article that…

UCA News - May 5, 2022

Ryan Dagur – Timor-Leste's president-elect Jose Ramos-Horta held meetings with Catholic leaders, including the Vatican envoy, to discuss…

Mongabay - May 5, 2022

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – An independent initiative in Indonesia has mapped Indigenous lands covering an area half the size of Germany since…

Jakarta Globe - May 5, 2022

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan is one of few names the National Democratic Party, or Nasdem, considers nominating for…

May 4, 2022

Mongabay - May 4, 2022

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Lawmakers in Indonesia are pressing the government to uncover the true scale of illegal oil palm plantations in the…

Mongabay - May 4, 2022

Aimee Gabay – "When I was a kid, it was easy to find and catch fish and to see hatchlings of turtles walking around the beach on my way to school…

East Asia Forum - May 4, 2022

Fitri Bintang Timur and Jovita Komala – In February 2022, Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto signed agreements with France to purchase…