Tag: Indonesia
Indonesia Plans to Let Foreign Flights Into Bali Soon
Bali is Indonesia’s most important tourist destination, and closing the island to foreign tourists has devastated the tourism industry.
Covid Trash Isn’t Always Dangerous. Not Everyone Got the Memo.
Overblown fears that the coronavirus could be transmitted through surfaces have created a stigma around handling nonhazardous trash, experts say. Some recyclable waste has been junked or burned.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo Found Negligent Over Jakarta Pollution
A court ruled in a lawsuit that President Joko Widodo and six other top officials had neglected to fulfill citizens’ rights to clean air and ordered them to improve the air quality in the capital.
Prison Fire in Indonesia Kills at Least 41 People
The blaze at the facility west of Jakarta highlighted the problems of the country’s overburdened correctional system.
Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow With Trillions of Organisms
A new generation of detectors let scientists identify a dozen large episodes of bioluminescence, one a hundred times larger than Manhattan — and that’s the smallest.
Poverty, Disease, Customs: Why So Many Indonesian Children Die of Covid
The disease kills far more children in developing countries than in rich ones, and some factors make them especially vulnerable in Indonesia.
Meet Delta, the Good Samaritan Robot in Indonesia.
The robot, made using a rice cooker and other household goods, is delivering food and other essential items to villagers infected with the virus.
Indonesian Army to End So-Called Virginity Tests, Chief Says
Women in the army have been subjected for decades to a procedure that has been condemned as pseudoscientific and a violation of human rights.