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All aboard
Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 18/02/2019
» Unlike other major capitals, Jakarta doesn't have the kind of appeal that makes it the go-to destination for foreign visitors who come to Indonesia. Unless they have business to do in the city, many don't get much farther than the international airport before they continue on to somewhere else in the country.
Film on teen's brush with ISIS sends powerful message
Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 05/09/2016
» An Indonesian teenager in the central Turkish city of Kayseri got a new lease on life in June 2014 when an acquaintance didn't show up to pick him up and take him across the border to Syria. That day, he was spared from an experience that could have cost him his life or led to his conviction as a terrorist if he survived and returned to Indonesia alive.
Smoked out
Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 12/09/2016
» Tobacco farmer Budidoyo Siswoyo has felt the adverse impact of the unseasonally heavy rain that kept pouring during the dry season this year. He has nothing to show for his efforts since he planted his crop in April on his two-hectare farm in Temanggung, Central Java.
Fast track to Heaven
Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 03/09/2018
» As the annual haj season in Saudi Arabia for Muslims around the world came to an end late last month, pilgrims have begun their trips home, including some 200,000 from Indonesia, who can now use the honorific title "Hajj" for men or "Hajja" for women before their names.
New Pertamina chief faces one-price fuel policy challenge
Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 27/03/2017
» The new chief executive of the state-owned energy firm Pertamina faces a huge task ahead to carry out President Joko Widodo's one-price fuel policy, in the face of inadequate infrastructure to distribute fuel to remote areas and far-flung islands of the vast archipelago.
Riding to work
Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 14/11/2016
» Long before ride-hailing applications such as Go-Jek, Grab and Uber became available, motorcycle taxis were a fixture on the streets of Indonesia's major cities, providing an affordable and fast means of transport in the absence of a decent and reliable public transport network.
Haj hassle
Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 19/09/2016
» Indonesia is intensifying its push for a bigger quota for haj pilgrims in a bid to clear a decades-long backlog of applicants awaiting their turn to go to Mecca. Authorities in the world's most populous Muslim country also want and avoid further embarrassment after hundreds of its citizens were found to have taken part illegally in the pilgrimage that ended last week.