When riots broke out in Indonesia's capital in 1998 leading to dictator Suharto's downfall, activists were detained, women ...

The Indonesian government plans to permanently relocate thousands of residents after a series of eruptions of Mount Lewotobi ...

On August 16, 1945, the day after Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces in World War II, a 21-member independence ...

According to UNHCR, 2,500 Rohingya arrived by boat in Aceh between January 2023 and March 2024, as many as had arrived in ...

A Boeing 737 caught fire during takeoff from Dortheys Hiyo Eluay International Airport in Jayapura City in the Indonesian ...

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The mostly Muslim ethnic Rohingya are heavily persecuted in Myanmar, and thousands risk their lives each year on long and dangerous sea journeys to try to reach Malaysia or Indonesia. The Rohingya ...

Chung Deok-young, known as the “Hangeul evangelist,” teaches the minority Cia-Cia language using Hangeul textbooks on ...

Johor to the north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the Singapore Strait to the south. Singapore's territory consists of the diamond-shaped main island ...

Indonesia is blocking the sale of Apple’s latest iPhone, citing the tech giant’s failure to comply with local content regulations aimed at boosting domestic industry – frustrating eager ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia said it has banned sales of smartphones made by Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google due to rules requiring the use of locally manufactured components, days after blocking ...

Race and ethnicity are used to categorize Americans often, but according to the report, these categories can be misused in scientific analyses. The report adds that this characterization ...