Indonesia has begun enforcing its newly ratified penal code, replacing a Dutch-era criminal law that had governed the country ...

KINGSTOWN, SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES / ACCESS Newswire / January 2, 2026 / WeTrade, the leading global financial ...

The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.

Children’s laughter skimmed over water the color of mud as mothers wrung laundry over banks where the Sekadau joins the ...

Before BTS made K-pop mainstream globally, there was me: a teenager from the United States who fell in love with Indonesian music and became a Sahabat NOAH, the equivalent of BTS’s Army.

My weekly language classes have taught me humility more than anything else. Ayaka Ono, my current Japanese teacher, estimates ...

The Alas Pilipinas men’s volleyball team couldn’t crack three-time defending champion Indonesia, settling for second place in Group B heading into the semifinals of the 33rd Southeast Asian Games. The ...

We stood beneath a coconut palm, its fronds swaying above an alang-alang field. Dayu Mas looked toward the Petanu river and said, ‘This place listens.’ It was 1983. We had been speaking for weeks ...

This report from the Just Transition Finance Lab explores the lessons that can be learned from Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) for the design of country platforms. JETPs are political ...

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Sixty years ago, on October 1, 1965 the Indonesian army set in motion its plans to seize power from president Sukarno and to destroy the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), one of the main forces ...