As Western and Indonesian academics continue to engage in co-operation, we should find common ways of counteracting discrimination, including discriminatory practices against the LGBT community.
Over decades of gathering, Indonesian waters have been stripped of the highest-priced, best-quality sea cucumbers, while the reefs of northern Australia offer an abundance of these creatures.
A student with a disability is guided by a volunteer during a campus orientation at Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta in September 2021.
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More than 100 world leaders have pledged to end the destruction of forests by 2030 as a way to slow climate change. That will require changing how the world produces four widely used commodities.
Two foreign workers in a mining project in Konawe, Southeast Sulawesi.
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Southeast Asia’s largest economy applies different standards when it comes to upholding work rights for migrant workers from Indonesia and other countries.
An elderly citizen receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia, in May 2021.
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By scrapping the requirement, the Indonesian government can improve equality of access to basic services and protections that are sorely needed now and in the post-pandemic future.
Prospective buyers consult with a housing agent at a housing project launch in Jakarta.
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The affordability of housing prices is important for the nation’s economic growth.
A group of female journalists in Semarang, Central Java, stage a protest demanding that media organisations be women-friendly.
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The research has challenged the conventional notion that female journalists are powerless in a male-dominated world.
Indonesia runs the world’s largest network of madrasas (Islamic schools). They have contributed significantly to girls’ enrolment, and can serve as a model for the Taliban government.
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Indonesia can serve as an important model for the Taliban of how Muslim nations and faith-based organisations can play a big role in expanding girls’ education.
ASEAN leaders attend a high-level meeting at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta earlier this year.
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Papua, one of Indonesia’s most rural provinces, struggled with online learning during the COVID-19 crisis. Interestingly, it may just be the right moment to invest in Papua’s education technology.
Two female residents of Tambak Lorok village in Central Java visit their damaged house after it was hit by high tidal flooding.
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Results from our preliminary study strongly challenge the assumption that Indonesian parents are barriers to the delivery of school-based sexual health education.
Big Food companies producing ulta-processed foods are using a range of key market and political practices to increase their reach, particularly in developing countries.
A man inspects a road destroyed by a flood in Dili, East Timor, April 6 2021.
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Overlooking people with disability in disaster preparations and responses makes them even more vulnerable. A new partnership has shown they can play meaningful and active roles.
Bali’s tourism industry is one of the hardest hit by COVID-19 travel restrictions.
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Ya-Yen Sun, The University of Queensland; Futu Faturay, Badan Kebijakan Fiskal, Kementerian Keuangan RI; Ilmiawan Auwalin, Universitas Airlangga; Jie Wang, The University of Queensland e Lintje Sie, The University of Queensland
The COVID-19 pandemic has decimated many opportunities for those who were already financially disadvantaged.