Gov’t Imposes 10-Day Quarantine for International Arrivals amid Omicron Scare

Jakarta. All international arrivals must undergo a ten-day quarantine starting Friday to prevent the spread of the Omicron variant, a senior official said on Thursday. The current requirement obliges foreign visitors and Indonesian returnees to spend a ...

Jakarta Tech Office Building Catches Fire

Jakarta. A building that houses tech companies in South Jakarta caught fire on Thursday, with rescue workers saying a teenage worker might have been dead. The city’s fire department said the flame broke out at the Cyber Building in Mampang Prapatan ...

Educating Vulnerable Groups on Stunting Crucial to its Prevention

Jakarta. Helping the vulnerable group, which includes pregnant women and future brides, to better understand the risks of stunting is crucial to prevent the low height for age condition affecting their children. The Covid-19 pandemic has posed a number of ...

India Seeks Direct Investment Passage to Indonesia

Jakarta. India hopes to explore the largely untapped economic potentials in its relationship with Indonesia by making direct investments without a third country channel, an envoy said on Tuesday. The two countries have been intensifying bilateral ...

Palm Oil Offers Solution to Global Energy Crisis: Gapki

Jakarta. The Indonesian Palm Oil Association, or Gapki, said on Wednesday that palm oil-based renewable energy can help resolve the energy crunch that many countries are facing. “With the energy crisis now happening in some parts of the world, palm oil- ...

Holistic, Tailored Solutions Place a Safer Climate Within Reach

As the world continues its transition toward cleaner, renewable approaches to climate and energy, the ways progress will be planned and paid for are becoming clearer. While some people left COP26 disappointed with the progress made, key frameworks that ...

Kinobi Inks MoUs with 51 Universities Across Asia

Jakarta. Kinobi, a Singapore-based career preparation platform, recently announced that it has inked memorandum of understandings, or MoU, with 51 universities across Asia within just a month. With the signing, Kinobi will support the respective ...

Greater Jakarta, Bali Tighten Restrictions as Omicron Looms

Jakarta. The government has tightened the restrictions level in Greater Jakarta, and Bali in the latest move to anticipate the arrival of the new Covid-19 variant, Omicron, after observing the public have begun neglecting health protocols. The Greater ...

Indonesia Needs to Sort Out How to Sort Its Waste

Jakarta. Indonesia's effort to manage its plastic waste has been hampered with a basic problem for years now: all of its garbage remains unsorted. "I think that's our biggest challenge, how can we sort our waste," Rofi Alhanif, the assistant deputy for ...