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School sows seeds of food wisdom
Oped, Joan Rumengan, Published on 06/01/2024
» 'I bring a very big sack of delicious wheat for all of you," Buto Trigo, a monster with a scary set of three eyes, told her audience of young people at an open-air theatre performance in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. "It's good to fry or steam. Try it! Your homemade cooking will look beautiful," she said, likening its beauty to that of the sinister queen she is allied to.
Hoax stories hamper Indonesia's Covid-19 fight
News, Kanis Dursin, Published on 06/07/2020
» These days, Sisa Primashinta's smartphone pings often and brings her notifications -- not about social-media posts or from her chat messages, but about corrections to "information" that she accessed an hour or two earlier.
The war on Christianity
News, Editorial, Published on 26/04/2019
» There's a war going on -- against a religion whose name is often treated as an embarrassing footnote. It's a war against Christianity, and while its tentacles of hatred reach across the globe, they were seen most horrifically in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday with multiple deadly suicide blasts.
What Thailand needs to do to kick its plastic addiction
News, Danny Marks, Published on 04/12/2018
» Today is plastic bag free day in Thailand. While this initiative is a good start, much more must be done. Last month, a dead whale was found in Indonesia with six kilogrammes of plastic in its stomach. In June, about 80 plastic bags were found inside the stomach of a dead whale in southern Thailand. Their deaths are stark reminders of a growing problem: marine plastic pollution.
Jakarta fails yet again to counter Islamic State threats
News, Suhas Chakma, Published on 04/08/2018
» On Tuesday, Indonesia banned the Islamic State (IS)-aligned terrorist group Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) as part of ramping up its counter terror measures ahead of the Asian Games to be held in Jakarta and Palembang in mid August and the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) in Bali in mid-October.