Indonesia

Indonesia’s Controversial Draft Criminal Code

Indonesia is once again facing a potential legal crisis as the passage of its controversial draft criminal code – a complete overhaul of the current criminal code – looks imminent.Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej, the deputy law and human rights minister, has said that the legislation should be passed no later than July this year – although no date has been publicly announced.

18 June 2022
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Indonesians Pay Price Of Cooking Oil Crisis

About three weeks after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, Indonesian housewife Liesye Setiana was forced to close her banana chip business as cooking oil supplies dried up across the country.Millions of consumers and small business owners in the world's fourth most populous nation have been rattled for months by skyrocketing cooking oil prices.As the war between the two major grain and sunflower seed producers sent jitters through global markets, many producers rushed to shift their goods

10 June 2022
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Indonesia, Malaysia Condemn Prophet Remarks

Indonesia and Malaysia have both summoned India's envoys in their countries over "derogatory" remarks made about the Prophet Mohammed by two officials with the South Asian nation's ruling party, their foreign ministries said Tuesday.It comes as anger spreads across the Arab and Muslim world, with various Middle Eastern nations summoning New Delhi's envoys and a Kuwaiti supermarket removing Indian products.Remarks by a spokeswoman for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Mod

8 June 2022
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Australia PM And Jokowi Ride Bikes, Hold Talks

Australia's new prime minister and Indonesia's president rode bamboo bicycles together on Monday as they held talks to boost ties, as Canberra embarks on a diplomatic charm offensive aimed at countering China's growing assertiveness in the region.Anthony Albanese hailed relations with Indonesia and vowed to strengthen them on his first bilateral trip since being elected last month, heading to Southeast Asia's biggest economy in what has become a traditional tour for new Au

7 June 2022
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Food Crisis: Malaysia Bans Chicken Exports

Malaysia says it will cut the export of chickens from the start of June because of shortages in the country.Elsewhere in Asia, India has banned wheat exports, while Indonesia blocked overseas sales of palm oil.It comes as the world faces the worst food crisis in decades following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.One agriculture expert has highlighted concerns about the potential rise of so-called "food nationalism" by governments in the region.Malaysian shoppers have seen chicken p

24 May 2022
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Indonesia To End Palm Oil Exports Ban On Monday

Indonesia will lift its ban on palm oil exports next week, President Joko Widodo said, relieving pressure on the global vegetable oil market after prices spiked because of the suspension and the war in Ukraine.The archipelago nation issued the ban last month to secure supplies of the commodity, used in a range of goods from chocolate spreads to cosmetics, in the face of a domestic shortage."Based on the supply...

21 May 2022
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Indonesians Struggle With Pricey Cooking Oil

As millions of Indonesians travelled to their hometowns to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, one common struggle was being discussed in most family gatherings: the price of cooking oil.“I always host Eid al-Fitr celebrations for my big family. I cook everything for around 20 of us.

11 May 2022
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Indonesia’s ‘Crazy Rich’ Influencers Arrested

Indonesian influencers Indra Kesuma and Doni Salmanan lived the kind of lives most people can only dream of.On his now-deleted Instagram, 25-year-old Kesuma, aka Indra Kenz, regularly posted pictures of himself posing next to luxury cars and sporting designer watches and clothes.

10 May 2022
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Indonesia’s Deadly Illegal Gold Mines

Lampang has been a miner at a community gold mine in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan for more than 30 years. Even still, he does not like to talk openly about his work.“Please don’t tell anyone the name of my mine,” Lampang, who is 53 years old and like many Indonesians only goes by one name, said.

9 May 2022
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Mystery Disease Kills Three Children In Indonesia

Three children in Indonesia have died from a mysterious liver disease, the country's health ministry said, raising to at least four the global death toll of a fatal ailment puzzling doctors from the United States (US) to Asia.This severe strain of acute hepatitis has been identified in nearly 230 children in 20 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday, raising concerns of the disease's "unknown origin".The symptoms afflicting the children include nausea,

5 May 2022
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Indonesians Flock To Their Hometowns For Eid

Millions of Indonesians were travelling to their hometowns on Thursday in an annual exodus from Jakarta and other major cities before the Eid holidays, a tradition that has been stalled for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.With less than a week left before Eid, toll roads, train stations, bus terminals and seaports are brimming with people excited about the yearly homecoming journey – locally known as "mudik".Indonesia's transportation ministry has predicted that 85 milli

29 April 2022
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Indonesia Raises Alert For Anak Krakatoa Volcano

Indonesia raised the alert status for the offspring of the infamous Krakatoa volcano to its second highest level on Monday, a day after it erupted and spewed a towering ash cloud 3,000 metres (9,800 feet) into the sky.Authorities bumped the threat of Anak Krakatoa, which means Child of Krakatoa, to level three of a four-tier volcanic alert system after witnessing a sharp rise in activity in the last month with the biggest eruption coming on Sunday.They also widened the exclusion zone around t

27 April 2022
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