May 07, 2021
Indonesian soldiers stand guard during a protest in Timika, Papua province, Wednesday, August 21, 2019.
Credit: AP Photo/Jimmy Rahadat
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On April 29, the Coordinating Minister for Politics, Legal, and Security Affairs formally labelled Papua’s armed criminal organization (KKB), also known as the West Papua National Army-Free Papua Organization (TNPB-OPM), a terrorist organization. The decision comes after a series of attacks by TNPB-OPM in April resulted in the death of Brig. Gen. I Gusti Putu Danny, the head of the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) in Papua. While national stakeholders were largely supportive, Papua Governor Lukas Enembe issued a statement the following day rejecting the policy calling on the government to adopt a more humane security approach to Papua.
Every country has rare and unusual animals, tales of mythical beasts and rumors of cryptids, and a Venn diagram of the three groups always has a few overlaps. Depok, a city in the West Kava province of Indonesia on the western part of the island of Java, landed right smack in the middle of Indonesia’s weird creature Venn diagram with a report this week of a babi ngepet terrorizing a village in Depok. A what?
“In Indonesian lore, a babi ngepet is a person who uses a black magic-infused cloak to transform into a wild boar. In boar form, they would sneak into people’s homes and rub their bodies on the walls and furniture, which would magically draw the household’s money and valuables. When the babi ngepet shifts back to human form, the stolen fortune is contained in the cloak.”
Indonesia has detected coronavirus variants linked to more transmissible variants first detected in India and South Africa, ahead of the Idul Fitri mudik (exodus) season when mobility is expected to rise, prompting concerns of a possible case resurgence as seen in other countries.
LIPI s Papua information center to serve as data repository 1 hour ago
Head of the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) Laksana Tri Handoko Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) has launched a Papua information center that will function as a warehouse of data for regional development policies and programs.
At a discussion and launch of a virtual Papuan documentation website here on Monday, Head of the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) Laksana Tri Handoko stated that the Papua information center had demonstrated LIPI s commitment to documenting scientific data on Papua.
Handoko, ex-chairman of LIPI, remarked that technical data on Papua is not only beneficial for scientific development but can also be utilized as a basis for framing policies and programs for regional development.
BRIN should be able to support Indonesia s development: scientist 3 hours ago
Senior researcher of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) Siti Zuhro. (ANTARA/ Abdu Faisal)
The BRIN is tasked with mapping the needs of science and technology and preparing invention and innovations that will be used for solving development problems Jakarta (ANTARA) - The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) should be in a position to support Indonesia s national development program through research outcomes and innovations that are indispensable for policy-making processes, a senior scientist stated. The BRIN is tasked with mapping the needs of science and technology and preparing invention and innovations that will be used for solving development problems, senior researcher of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) Siti Zuhro remarked.