An Indonesia soap opera depicting an underage, polygamous marriage caused a social media uproar recently, forcing the show’s producers to recast a role.
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The DefenCe Ministry is set to embark on a multibillion dollar shopping spree to moderniSe the country’s aging defense equipment in a new 25-year defence procurement plan, a draft presidential regulation reveals.
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): With plans of a new tax amnesty resembling that of 2016, the government seeks to increase state revenue as a quick fix for a huge budget deficit caused by the coronavirus pandemic, but critics warn that a second programme may encourage tax evasion.
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): Indonesia is in talks to secure US$836 million in green funds to finance environmental protection and climate change mitigation efforts in one of the world’s top greenhouse gas-emitting countries.