President Prabowo Subianto and Law Minister Supratman Andi Agtas have walked back comments they made several weeks ago ...

Election observers and democracy advocates have agreed that this year’s elections have shown worrying signs of the trajectory ...

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Rakyat jelata, when used by a government official, evokes associations with class hierarchies and marginalization, regardless ...

After several issues that riddled this year's haj program, including uneven quota allocation and subpar facilities, the ...

The education minister has recently announced a decision to review a new rule on incentive pay for lecturers issued by his ...

President-elect Donald Trump has urged the US Supreme Court to pause implementation of a law that would ban popular social ...

Under current conditions, the preferred option for Syria would be a secular democratic system with an embedded philosophy of ...

This year is the hottest in history, with record-breaking temperatures in the atmosphere and oceans acting like fuel for ...

The space agency said the operations team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland received the signal, a ...

Federal prosecutors in Brazil are weighing possible criminal action after labor inspectors found 163 Chinese workers "in ...

Trump was fiercely opposed to TikTok during his 2017-21 first term, and tried in vain to ban the video app on national ...