Prabowo Subianto may have intended it to be just an ice-breaker, but he waded right into a hot button political topic for his hosts with his declaration that a DNA test had shown him to have traces of ...

The OJK plans to limit individual lenders' involvement in peer-to-peer lending due to widespread misconduct that has exposed investors to significant risks.

Michael Goodman’s “Religion and Perfectionism” article provides the first-ever study known to examine these questions. Contrary to what some may assume, having a religious association or a belief in ...

Former Indonesian president Joko Widodo has slammed a “baseless” report for listing him as one of the world’s leading individuals for enabling corruption in 2024, but analysts say the ...

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ormer President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo clarified that his absence from the Bentang Harapan JakASA event on Dec. 31 was not due to any disagreement with former Jakarta governors, including Anies ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A legal expert from Indonesia's Mulawarman University, Herdiansyah Hamzah, said former President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s nomination for the most corrupt figure of 2024 by the ...

Joko Widodo claims he has been slandered after he was put on a list alongside African leaders and the ousted Syrian president by an international journalism organisation. Indonesia’s seventh ...

The new Congress is also more religious than the general population by another, related measure: Nearly three-in-ten Americans (28%) are religiously unaffiliated, meaning they are atheist or agnostic ...

For starters, President Joko (Jokowi) Widodo has been accused of slowing, in fact undermining, the fight against corruption. He engineered a Bill revising Law No 30/2002 curtailing the powers of ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) has announced that the 7th President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo or Jokowi, has been nominated as a ...

The phrase ‘religion of peace’ was used by some to counter the othering of Muslims done by Western nation states in the wake of the 9/11 attack The phrase ‘religion of peace’ used rather ...