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Topic: Indonesia

Despite Sriwijaya Air crash, Indonesia’s air safety is improving fast

An aviation law passed by the country in 2009 has gradually been getting results — accident rates were below the global average in 2018 & 2019, lower even than in the US and the EU.

Indonesia closes in on black boxes, says plane was intact when it struck Java Sea

Search teams have identified the site where the Sriwijaya Air jet carrying 62 people went down, plunging more than 10,000 feet shortly after takeoff.

Sriwijaya Air flight with 62 aboard crashes into sea shortly after takeoff from Jakarta

Flight SJ182, a 26-year-old Boeing Co. 737-500, was scheduled to depart from the nation’s capital to Pontianak on the island of Borneo at 1:40 p.m. local time.

Bali’s tour operators turn farmers, misinformation crisis in Turkey & other global Covid news

As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe.

Indonesia slips to first recession in 22 years amid Covid outbreak

Indonesia's GDP shrank 3.49% from a year ago, but officials saw hope in the fact that the contraction was narrowing. Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said the worst is over.

Shrimp farming is ruining our mangroves, but there are solutions

About 70% of Indonesia’s mangrove forests have been damaged by aquaculture. But nature-based solutions can help produce food in a more sustainable manner.

‘Standing up against China’ — India set to step into another minilateral within Indo-Pacific

Foreign ministers of India, Australia and Indonesia to meet soon to formalise agenda on security and economic connectivity.

Japan’s push to cut its reliance on China will come as a boon to Southeast Asia

Japan is paying about $114 million to 30 firms to raise production in Southeast Asia, in the first round of a multi-billion dollar programme to diversify supply chains.

India & Indonesia agree to expand defence ties and technology sharing

The possible areas of further expansion of defence and military ties were discussed during talks between Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and General Prabowo Subianto.

Indonesia faces unusual challenges as Covid cases climb — theft of corpses, smiling

A clash between culture and medical procedure is resulting in frequent reports of corpse stealing, where family members or, in extreme cases, local mobs take away bodies.

On Camera

Pakistan is bluffing. There’s no proof for $6 trillion mineral wealth claim

The minerals that Pakistan purports to offer to the US are either in quantities too small to matter, of a type that the US does not need, or would be much more easily sourced from other partners.

No more text-heavy ads, wider scope of services—ICAI’s ethics code overhaul to promote Indian CA firms

Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.