Only a little over 5% of the 10.8 million people with disabilities entering the workforce in Indonesia have experienced college education.
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Despite laws that prohibit discrimination against persons with disabilities, very few universities in Indonesia have dedicated units that provide special needs services.
The United Nations (UN) has called for the empowerment of persons with disabilities so they are not only involved but also can lead in disaster management. Their leadership is vital to ensure that every disaster response also meets the need of persons with disabilities.
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Encouraging people with disabilities to lead in the emergency response is vital if we want to prevent more people becoming disabled, or dying, as a result of disaster.
A man with a disability is seen in Jakarta. It is important to provide disability activists with skills, confidence and networks to continue campaigning for the full implementation of the law.
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Our 2018 research on the implementation of the new disability law shows that policymakers are still reluctant to implement the law.
Aside from an externalised expression of their faith, the niqab is but a precarious shield from a misogynistic rape culture.
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If we acquiesce to the ban of the niqab, what makes the banning of other types of women’s clothing any different?
Forest fires break out in Indonesia every year from land clearing using fires.
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Villagers of Sumatra and Kalimantan relunctant to participate in peatland restoration, contributing to the recent forest fires in Indonesia.
Ironically, many consider the Information Law sabotages the hard-earned freedom of expression ushered in by the 1998 reforms.
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The increasing number of cases involving the abuse of the Information Law has contributed to the decline of freedom indices from Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s to Joko Widodo’s time.
A knobbed hornbill in tropical forest, Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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Instead of boycotting palm oil, source it from pastureland and not recently logged forests.
Around 25% of Indonesian students as high as in the fifth grade still struggled to understand short paragraphs, research suggests.
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Indonesian researchers developed an Indian-inspired toolkit to assess literacy and numeracy among elementary-level students. The results were worrying.
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President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo announced the ambition on becoming a global maritime fulcrum in his first term. Not much progress has been made.
Around 90% of research papers published in journals contain results that prove the hypotheses. This bias has driven scientists to commit unethical practices just to get published easier.
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Indonesia’s unhealthy obsession with research output is driving scientists to commit unethical acts to produce research that are more publishable. What can the research community do to stop this?
Indonesia announced ‘war against marine plastic debris’ in 2016 as a recent study dubbed the country as the second largest waste producer in the world.
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Indonesia is struggling to keep its waste from the oceans. The government has announced ambitious plan to curb plastic waste. However, lack of research to support the policy.
Thousands of students staged protests across the country against proposed changes to the criminal code and a new law that weakened the country’s anti-corruption commission.
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Indonesia passes a regressive anti-democratic law – with more to come – just as BJ Habibie dies, the president who championed the dramatic reform process that transformed Indonesia after 1998.
Five new things in the 2020 state budget that will impact Indonesian citizens and taxpayers.
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Indonesia’s state budget (APBN) for 2020 was signed into law without any meaningful resistance. It allocates US$180 billion for the next fiscal year.
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Electrifying transport needs bigger changes than another high-end electric car.
Pressure on academic freedom in the Reform Era has evolved compared to the more centralised style of the New Order.
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Without clearance from authorities, scientists can face penalties for conducting ‘dangerous’ research’.
An Indonesian island was home to H. Floresiensis – but how did the dwarfed human species evolve?
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New research models how the Homo floresiensis species could have evolved its small size remarkably quickly while living on an isolated island.
Indonesia, the world’s second-largest cigarette market, has not done anything to control vaping.
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Here are some immediate actions need to be made to avoid the unprecedented youth vaping epidemic in Indonesia.
Refugees are staging peaceful protests outside the UNHCR building, demanding they speed up resettlement.
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Some refugees have been waiting to be resettled for almost a decade, and their broken trust is visceral.
A mass prayer for rain to combat the haze in Riau province, Indonesia, September 2019.
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Research shows previous fires increased child mortality and reduced growth rates.
People have fought against repression in Papua through many avenues.
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New research investigates how music helps healing from trauma and dealing with violence and repression in Papua and West Papua.