Indosat Ooredoo and Hutchison 3 are merging in a bid to increase funding and frequency resources in the 5G era.

The KPK is looking into violations in the distribution of rice assistance at the ministry of social affairs. Some government officials purportedly interfered with the project.

David Jenkins, the Australian journalist who was once barred from entering Indonesia in the New Order era, has launched his newest book Young Soeharto, The Making of a Soldier, 1921–1945. The book zooms in on Suharto’s childhood and teenage years, and then explores his early career in the Dutch army and the Japanese police. It reveals many new facts.

As many as 13,000 students are infected with Covid-19 after attending face-to-face learning at a number of schools.

Speculations surrounding security issues in Papua has not dampened the confidence of Yunus Wonda, Executive Chair of the Papua 20th National Sports Week (PON) Committee. He is optimistic that with the support of the Papuan people and the military and the police combined, the quadrennial sports festival will proceed smoothly and safely.

Investors are potentially facing double problems soon, which come from the United States and China. Be ready.

Letters about toll road project land conflicts and how to minimizing carbon emissions.

Cartoon: Yuyun Nurrachman

There is only a very small population of Sumatran rhinoceros, consisting of less than 80 scattered across four locations in Sumatra and East Kalimantan. The government is enacting emergency action plan to save them from extinction.

The government must be transparent regarding patients who fall sick or die after being vaccinated. Do not give ammunition to anti-vaccine groups.

As seen from today, Isaac Newton’s physics are indeed simple. His classic physics views reality like a huge machine that moves forward with time, in changing configurations following fixed laws, like Newton’s three laws of movement.

TRAFFIC in Liang Anggang subdistrict, Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan, is shrouded in thick smog from land fires on Tuesday, September 21. Strong winds swiftly exacerbated the fire which engulfed dozens of hectares of land in the area. The Banjarbaru Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency together with Banjarmasin City fire volunteers are deployed to prevent the fire from reaching residential areas. Antara/Bayu Pratama S

SOUTHEAST Asia has faced numerous human rights violations and abuses, ranging from the worst crimes against the Rohingya and other religious and ethnic minorities in Myanmar to extra-judicial killings in the Philippines under President Duterte’s administration. Many enforced disappearances have also occurred across the region, along with violence against human rights and democracy defenders, attacks on freedom of religion and belief, freedom of expression, and some other incidents. 

It does not mean the region has no institution that addresses human rights issues. Since 2009, member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have had the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights or AICHR. But critics said this body has been ineffective and ‌incapable of protecting human rights in the region. 

To commemorate the International Human Rights Day on December 10, TEMPO TALKS presents Yuyun Wahyuningrum, the representative of Indonesia to AICHR who will explain about human rights problems in the region and how her organization addresses the issue on TEMPO TALKS