"The celebration of Chinese New Year today also serves as a reminder that Gus Dur deserves the title of national hero.

1845 – Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” was published for the first time in the “New York Evening Mirror.” 1848 – Greenwich Mean ...

Mathematician John Napier predicts end of the world in 1688 or 1700. 1728: John Gay’s “The Beggar’s Opera” premieres ...

Trump Two is the world’s big story – will he fly high and take the dollar aloft – or crash and fry? Whatever, he’s shading ...

Chinese New Year is believed to have origins that can be traced back to the 14th century BC (BC). According to legend, in the ...

and August 2000 to meet Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid in Jakarta. On October 21–23, 2007, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas made his first official state visit to Indonesia, where he signed ...

A group of prominent interfaith and pro-democracy figures has voiced a moral call for the administration of President Prabowo ...

School holidays during Ramadan were once implemented during the era of Indonesia’s fourth President, Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur), to allow students to focus more on religious studies and be more ...

Jakarta Provincial Government and Ministry of Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection/Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Agency (KP2MI/BP2MI) signed a memorandum of agreement on the Implementation of ...

Residents of Jakarta's Chinatown, now a melting pot of diversity, still recall the mob violence that ripped through the ...

JAKARTA: Former president Joko 'Jokowi; Widodo said his recent meeting with Yogyakarta Governor Hamengku Buwono X was not ...