In the last six months the area of Bali seemed unfriendly to Australian tourists. There are two residents of The Kangaroo Country found died mysteriously and the other two were victims of theft and violence. The first case happened to Danielle Enid North (33), a woman from Australia who was found died in the swimming [...]

The government is almost certain to increase subsidized premium gasoline and diesel oil prices next month from Rp4,500 per liter to Rp6,500 or Rp7,000 for private cars. According to Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Jero Wacik, the government has almost reached a decision to impose a dual pricing system on subsidized gasoline and diesel oil [...]

Indonesia is a tropical country having at least 5,590 rivers and 65,017 tributaries with a total length of the rivers at around 94,573 km and broad river basins reaching 1,512.466 km2. Like in many other countries, river is a source of water which  has a very important function for the lives and livelihoods of the [...]

Ten days after the shocking raid at Cebongan penitentiary by armed masked men who killed for detainees, the Indonesian Army (TNI)’s investigation team announced the identities of the attackers to the public. “The attack was carried out by members of the army, in this case members of the Indonesian Army’s special forces Kopassus Group 3 [...]

Members of the United Nations High-Level Panel (UN HLP) of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda issued a Final Communiqué that they described as an “ambitious yet achievable framework” in their meeting in Bali, Indonesia, recently. Co-chaired by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the fourth HLP meeting held [...]

Many developing countries including Indonesia have just less than three years to make significant progresses in poverty eradication, health, sanitation and education programs which are parts of the the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). April 5, 2013 will mark 1,000 days to the end of 2015 – the deadline for achieving the eight MDGs which were [...]

Shallots and garlic have been the main ingredients for many of Indonesian cuisines. Almost every dish is served with these famous herbs to enrich the flavor of almost every Indonesian dining table. Lately, the ordinarily famous herbs went scarce in the Indonesian markets, and the price was skyrocketing from Rp20 thousand per kilogram to about [...]

Mangrove rehabilitation program in Indonesia should gain serious support from all parties across the country. A common natural feature of tropical and subtropical coastlines, mangrove forests are among the most biologically important ecosystems on earth. But ground-based evidence in Indonesia shows these vital coastal forests have been decimated or damaged in many regions. Forestry Ministry [...]