The government was currently taking soft approaches to try to break the deadlock, said the Cendrawasih Military Command commander Maj. Gen. Muhammad Saleh Mustafa, with local politicians and religious figures involved in trying to secure the release of Philip Mehrtens.

About 730,000 Rohingya, a persecuted mostly Muslim minority from Myanmar’s Rakhine state, fled to Bangladesh in 2017 to escape an army crackdown the UN said was carried out with genocidal intent. Including others who left in prior waves, nearly 1 million live in huts made of bamboo and plastic sheets.

TikTok, whose parent company ByteDance is Chinese, is already facing calls for a ban in the US over its links with Beijing, and is now under fierce scrutiny in the European Union.

Lawmakers approved a new criminal code in December banning sex outside marriage and prohibiting cohabitation between unmarried couples.

A lawyer for Drake had no immediate comment, while a lawyer for 21 Savage declined to comment. Reuters obtained Bowes' memo.

When selling and promoting products on e-commerce platforms, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) need to abide by existing laws and regulations.

Data from Google show that Indonesians are growing an interest in new modes of transportation, with keywords like "sepeda listrik" (electric bike), "motor listrik" (electric motorcycle) and "mobil hybrid" (hybrid cars) surging 100 percent or more in Google searches last year.

The statement, to which the family attached a photo of a smiling Willis at the beach,said there are no current treatments for the disease. The family said that they hoped Willis' diagnosis at the age of 67 would bring more focus to battling FTD.

Singapore doesn’t struggle with traffic jams the way other cities do. It hit upon a winning strategy in the 1970s and stuck to it.

The tricky task of steering the Bank of Japan (BOJ) out of years of ultra-low interest rates without upending markets required the skill to read markets and clearly communicate policy intentions, both domestically and internationally.

The dollar surged on Friday to hit a six-week high against a basket of currencies as a bout of resilient economic data out of the United States raised market expectations that more interest rate hikes were in the offing.

The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) would not be appealing the verdict of Second Agent Richard Eliezer, who participated but also helped expose the murder plot of Brig. Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat in Jakarta last year.

Cabinet ministers took the top two jobs at the PSSI leadership race on Thursday, paving the way for a closer relationship between the government and the nation’s soccer governing body.

Indonesian humanitarian missions had started providing medical assistance and operating field hospitals to Turkey and Syria, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, in the aftermath of deadly earthquakes last week.

Congestion charging might be unpopular, but other cities have shown it works to get traffic moving. The Indonesian government could take note.

UN member states are meeting in New York from Monday with the aim of launching a long-berthed high-seas treaty, a crucial step toward the goal of protecting 30 percent of the planet by 2030.

The government is in danger of selling more subsidized motor fuel than it intends this year, as a delay in purchase restrictions allows unfettered access to cheaper fuel brands to continue.

Labor unions and worker rights activists plan to stage more nationwide protests and strikes to oppose the controversial government regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on job creation that is set to be passed into law in a House of Representative plenary session in March.

Government involvement in central bank governance institution is not a new phenomenon in other jurisdictions, but it does not exist in Indonesia. 

Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Cambodia bear a special responsibility to persuade China that attacking Taiwan is not its best interest nor in the best interests of the region.

Indonesian oversensitivity has harmed the neighbors’ friendship in the past.

The central bank also prepared a time deposit facility to encourage exporters to store foreign exchange receipts in country.

They were long derided as old-fashioned symbols of grinding poverty, but mud and straw houses are making a comeback in Hungary as a low-cost, eco-friendly alternative to concrete.

Microsoft's fledgling Bing chatbot can go off the rails at times, denying obvious facts and chiding users.

Indonesia has strongly condemned Israel’s unilateral decision to legalize nine Jewish outpost settlements in the Palestinian West Bank and authorize the construction of 10,000 new houses in the area.

As Kuwait will soon celebrate its national day and the 55th anniversary of Indonesia-Kuwait diplomatic relations, the Gulf country is seeking ever closer diplomatic relations with Indonesia.

Dancing to Iraqi pop made TikTok personality Om Fahad a hit among tens of thousands of followers, but now she is in prison.