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.
Academics should become intellectual defenders of public interest and role models for civic engagement, scholars say.
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Academics should become intellectual defenders of public interest and role models for civic engagement, scholars say.
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Can developing countries get rich from data?
Students protesting in Jakarta facing troops from the Indonesian National Police.
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A reflection from a former student activist in 1998 on lessons her generation can learn from the 2019 student protests.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo wants the country to be a global maritime power.
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There are limitations on the ground that may hinder the realisation of Jokowi’s grand vision of making Indonesia a global maritime power.
The new law aims to deregulate existing tax requirements to create a more open business climate.
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If the draft tax law is approved by the Indonesian parliament, individuals and businesses will be affected by at least six important changes.
Many children in Indonesia do not know that having sexual relations may lead to them being pregnant and forced to marry their partners.
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Raising the minimum age for Indonesian women to marry to 19 years is important, but on its own is not enough to reduce rates of child marriage.
Indonesian women participate in a rally for equal rights outside the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, in March 2017.
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Indonesia’s populist morality movement considers talking about eliminating sexual violence against women is the same as supporting women’s right to have sex outside of marriage.
Jakarta is among the ‘megacities’ with a population of more than 10 million people.
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Shifting the capital of Indonesia and other countries may actually send the wrong message that cities too can be discarded.
Members of Free West Papua Campaign Netherlands protest over the situation in Indonesia’s Papua and West Papua provinces, on September 6 2019.
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Indonesia’s strategic position in today’s geopolitical configuration explains the lack of response internationally.
B.J Habibie as Indonesia’s Minister of Research and Technology in a press conference in 1987.
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He has inspired generations of Indonesians. Through his work, he changed many lives, including mine.