Our culinary cabaret: Jakarta’s top tables in 2024
From high-end cuisine to comforting local classics, these are the places to close out your year in delicious style when in the Indonesian capital.
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Lessons from Korea: The Jakarta Post
Indonesia's political culture often permits leaders to evade accountability. This permissiveness fosters a dangerous environment where corruption and misconduct are normalized.
Floods, landslides hit various regions of Indonesia ahead of year-end holidays
The country's state weather agency has warned that the majority of regions are entering the rainy season and forecast a 20 percent increase in rainfall intensity due to a weak La…
Megawati, Jokowi feud intensifies after his dismissal from party
The rivalry between the two former presidents quickly entered its new chapter with PDI-P executive Deddy Yevri Sitorus alleging that the former president sought to take over the…
Indonesia President Prabowo’s plan to pardon ‘corrupters’ raises eyebrows
Observers have said that a suggestion from the President to pardon graft suspects and convicts as long as they pay the evaded taxes conflicts the prevailing Anticorruption Law.
Policy progress in female circumcision in Indonesia
On the policy level, the government has shown extraordinary and commendable action.
Indonesia’s ransomware scare highlights need for proper implementation of privacy law
Indonesia has in the past years racked up a lengthy list of data breaches that experts say authorities failed to investigate either properly or transparently, stoking public…
Is Indonesia abandoning ASEAN?: The Jakarta Post
This is the second time since President Prabowo’s inauguration that Indonesia has sent a concerning message to its regional neighbours.
Prevention is better than cure: The Jakarta Post
It’s better to prevent a public trust crisis than to patch one up afterward.
Why did Indonesia release the Bali Nine now?
Clearly, President Prabowo sees this as a way of engineering a reset both for Indonesia’s relations with a range of countries, as well as his own reputation, the writer says.