Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism Timothy Betts will travel to Jakarta, Indonesia Oct. 3. During the trip, he will lead a counterterrorism dialogue with the Indonesian National Counterterrorism Agency to discuss cooperation under the 2018 Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of
Reforming the Indonesian police needs to be driven from the bottom up by civil society groups. A fatal oversight in Indonesia’s history of political reform is the absence of efforts to reform Indonesian police. The militaristic nature of the police lingers despite two decades of institutional separation with the armed
WASHINGTON — Here’s a summary of Uyghur-related news from around the world in the last week. Why many African countries joined Chinese statement on Xinjiang report African countries make up nearly half of the 28 countries that joined China in saying a U.N. report on China’s human rights record drew “erroneous conclusions.” Analysts
The state budget (APBN) will serve as the government’s instrument to lower the poverty rate in Indonesia next year, according to Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati. “Our efforts to identify the poor people through the Social and Economic Registration (Regsosek) survey will ensure that all instruments of APBN will far
The Indonesian government is drafting regulations to lay the legal basis for supporting investment and businesses and issuing business permits in the new Indonesian capital of Nusantara (IKN). “The draft government regulations are expected to be completed in the near future so that they can help the IKN Authority, which
The use of natural gas as an alternative to fossil fuel could be effective in reducing gas emissions by 20 to 25 percent, the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) researcher Hari Sumartono noted. “Since 90 percent of the chemical composition of CNG, or (compressed) natural gas, is methane, so