Indonesian athletes will compete in the world’s biggest sports event for people with disabilities — the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics — from August 24 to September 5, 2021. This year, 23 Indonesian athletes will compete in seven sports at the Paralympics. Badminton and athletics are the sports with the most number
The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) said it hopes President Joko Widodo will reiterate his commitment to handle and promote human rights when he delivers his address to the annual session of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) on Monday. “We want the President to reiterate his commitment,” Komnas
The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has issued a warning for potential extreme weather particularly heavy rains in a number of provinces between August 15 and 20, 2021. Among provinces expected to experience moderate to heavy rains were Aceh, North Sumatra, Riau, Riau Islands, West Sumatra, Jambi, Bengkulu, South
The National Police’s Counter-terrorism Squad, Densus 88, has arrested four suspected terrorists in Banten and West Java provinces on Sunday, a police spokesman said. “Today, one (terrorist suspect) was arrested in Banten and three others in West Java,” Chief of the Public Information Section of the Public Relations Division at
President Joko Widodo has instructed the Health Ministry to set the price ceiling for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test at Rp550 thousand. “I have talked about it with the health minister. I asked (him) to set the price of PCR test within the range of Rp450 thousand to Rp550 thousand,”
The Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) has said that four new dams and one weir are ready for inauguration as gifts for the Republic of Indonesia on its 76th Independence Day that falls on August 17, this year. The construction of the four dams was part of