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Indonesia sends off contingent for France's Bastille Day event
Antara
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July 6, 2025
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) Commander General Agus Subiyanto, and National Police (Polri) Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo sent off an Indonesian contingent for the Bastille Day...
Indonesia's Army to expand agroforestry program to boost food security
Antara
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July 6, 2025
Purwakarta, West Java (ANTARA) - The Indonesian Army (TNI-AD) plans to expand its agroforestry program in West Java to support the country’s efforts toward achieving food self-sufficiency. "This agroforestry program aims to bolster national food...
BMKG Weather Forecast: Rain to Fall on Parts of Jakarta and Surrounding Areas
Tempo.co
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July 6, 2025
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) predicts that the weather in most parts of Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi (Jabodetabek) will be mostly cloudy on Sunday morning, July 6, 2025. There is a...
BRICS Summit: Prabowo to voice Indonesia's role as bridge builder
Antara
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July 6, 2025
Jakarta (ANTARA) - President Prabowo Subianto will highlight Indonesia’s stance and role as a bridge builder during the country’s first-ever participation in the BRICS Summit, which is taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Ministry of...
Humidity, humility and a fantastic football arena: Day one in Indonesia
Bicester Advertiser
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My trip to Indonesia started at Heathrow in the early hours of Friday morning, and after changing flights in Doha, I finally arrived in Jakarta at half seven in the morning local time on Saturday (1:30am in the UK). Inevitably there was a fair...
Jokowi proposes moving Indonesia’s capital from Jakarta to...
Eleven Myanmar
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Friday formally proposed a plan to move the country’s capital from Jakarta, on the crowded island of Java, to Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, made the proposal during his...
BRICS pushes for tech sovereignty with new cloud plan
Al Mayadeen
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July 5, 2025
The BRICS Cloud proposal comes at a moment when member states are increasingly vocal about the need to insulate their technological and economic infrastructure from Western pressure and surveillance. As the 17th BRICS summit opens in Rio de...
Jakarta smoke-free zones won't hurt small businesses: CHED
Antara
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July 5, 2025
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The designation of smoke-free zones in Jakarta is not expected to negatively affect small businesses, according to the Center of Human and Economic Development (CHED) at Ahmad Dahlan Institute of Technology and Business,...
Why Forum Energy Technologies Stock Skyrocketed by 32% in June
Yahoo Finance
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Forum Energy Technologies (NYSE: FET), a somewhat under-the-radar product supplier to the oil and gas and defense industries, saw a dramatic increase in its share price in June. This was due mainly to a large contract it secured to provide...
Indonesia sets cultural advancement as core of 2025–2029 plan
Antara
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July 5, 2025
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Cultural Affairs has announced that the National Action Plan for Cultural Advancement (RAN-PK) will serve as a key reference for Indonesia’s development strategy. “Culture is...
Indroyono Soesilo Tapped as Jakarta’s Envoy to Washington
The Jakarta Globe
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Jakarta. President Prabowo Subianto has tapped Dwisuryo Indroyono Soesilo, a seasoned technocrat and former coordinating minister for maritime affairs, to serve as Indonesia’s next ambassador to the United States, filling a post that has been...
India Second Most Satisfying Democracy For Citizens: Pew Research
Ommcom News
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July 5, 2025
New Delhi: India, the world’s largest democracy, ranks second among nations as 74 per cent of people here feel satisfied about the working of the system of representative governance, according to Pew Research Centre (PRC) in a survey available on...
The Indonesian Frontier Town Named for a Jungle Vampire
JSTOR Daily
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July 5, 2025
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Talk about a ghost town. Pontianak, capital city of Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province, shares its name with a fearsome monster from Malay folklore, known variously as Pontianak or...
HAVELSAN to equip over 10 Indonesian warships with ADVENT Combat Management System
Naval news
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July 5, 2025
At the Indo Defence 2025 exhibition held in Jakarta, HAVELSAN, one of Türkiye’s leading defense technology companies, presented its naval systems, underscoring its commitment to supporting Indonesia’s defense modernization. With a growing presence...
From Leaf to Life: Indonesia’s Herbal Giant Eyes Ethiopia
The Reporter Ethiopia
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July 5, 2025
Healing Rooted in the Soil Across Ethiopia’s sweeping highlands and arid lowlands, an ancient tradition continues to flourish: the use of stems, seeds, leaves, roots, and flowers to heal the body and protect the spirit. For generations,...
Indonesia: Human-Centred AI for Ethical Innovation
OpenGov Asia
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July 4, 2025
Indonesia is actively promoting a human-centred approach to artificial intelligence (AI) development, aiming to balance technological innovation with the enhancement of human values and capabilities. Coordinating Minister for Human Development and...
IDX Reports 17 Million Investors in Indonesia's Capital Market
Tempo.co
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July 5, 2025
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) recorded that the number of investors in the capital market reached 17,016,329 Single Investor Identification (SID) on Thursday, July 3, 2025. The number of SIDs increased by 2,144,690 from...
Indonesian Officer Swept Away in River While Chasing Corruption Witness
Tempo.co
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July 4, 2025
TEMPO.CO, Medan - Reynanda Primta Ginting, a 26-year-old staff member of the district prosecutor's office in Simalungun, was swept away in the river while chasing a corruption witness on Wednesday, July 2, 2025. The next day, the staff was found...
Indonesia’s DPR Speaker urges tourist safety after Mt. Rinjani death
Antara
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July 4, 2025
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Speaker of Indonesia’s House of Representatives (DPR), Puan Maharani, has called on tourism stakeholders to prioritize visitor safety in order to maintain the country’s reputation as a safe travel destination. Her statement,...
Will Google stay committed to Indonesia's publisher rights?
The Jakarta Post
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n February 2024, Indonesia took a long-overdue step to address the growing imbalances between global tech platforms and domestic publishers by enacting Presidential Regulation No. 32/2024 on the Responsibility of the Digital Platforms to Support...