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Trade ministry ensures food prices stay stable ahead of holidays

Jakarta, Nov. 21 -- The Ministry of Trade has confirmed that staple food prices across several regions remain stable ahead of the 2025 Christmas and 2026 New Year holidays. Direct monitoring in multi... Read More


Indonesia declares end of type-2 polio outbreak

Jakarta, Nov. 21 -- Indonesia has officially ended its circulating poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) outbreak after administering nearly 60 million additional vaccine doses to children, Health Minister Budi ... Read More


Erick Thohir pushes Perbasi to draft roadmap for 2028 Olympic bid

Jakarta, Nov. 21 -- Youth and Sports Minister Erick Thohir urged the Indonesian Basketball Association (Perbasi) to prepare a roadmap for national basketball development as a key requirement for placi... Read More


Indonesia revokes 2,229 permits in crackdown on food mafia

Jakarta, Nov. 21 -- The Food Task Force had prosecuted 75 suspects and revoked 2,229 retailer and distributor permits from 2024 to 2025 as part of tightened supervision of cooking oil, rice, and ferti... Read More


Indonesiana cultural endowment fund has reached 2,800 beneficiaries

Indonesia, Nov. 21 -- Culture Minister Fadli Zon said that the Indonesiana Endowment Fund Program has reached 2,800 beneficiaries across Indonesia, in order to build a wider ecosystem for Indonesian c... Read More


Indonesia prepares Rp10 trillion land program to boost food security

Jakarta, Nov. 21 -- Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman stated that the government has prepared around Rp10 trillion (nearly US$600 million) in grants to open 870 thousand hectares of land for cr... Read More


Indonesia to ease rules for diaspora PhDs to teach in universities

Surabaya, East Java, Nov. 21 -- The Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology is working to simplify administrative procedures for Indonesian diaspora PhD holders who wish to become academ... Read More


Bali police investigate death of Chinese tourist at Canggu hostel

Denpasar, Bali, Nov. 21 -- Bali's Badung District Police have released a chronology of the incident in which six foreign tourists suffered diarrhea and one died while staying at Clandestino Hostel in ... Read More


Most evacuees return home as Semeru activity stabilizes, BNPB says

Jakarta, Nov. 21 -- The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) confirmed that by Friday afternoon, most residents who evacuated following Mount Semeru's eruption in Lumajang, East Java, have gradu... Read More


BNPB supports relief and recovery efforts after Semeru eruption

Jakarta, Nov. 21 -- The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has pledged full support for emergency response and environmental recovery efforts following the eruption of Mount Semeru in Lumajang... Read More