A region-wide assessment has found that opportunities were missed to involve social scientists in national COVID-19 response strategies in Southern and Southeast Asia. The report, “The Role of Social Sciences in COVID-19 responses in Asia,” was a collaboration between the Global Development Network and the Asia Research Centre at Universitas Indonesia, with support from the […]
IO – Seventy-seven years have passed since the Holocaust but it is still being remembered and it still has influence on events happening now and how we perceive and react to them, both individually and as governments. The 27th of January is International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Jakarta or Italian […]
Beberapa dinas pendidikan di berbagai distrik di Amerika mengkaji ulang dan melarang sejumlah buku dari perpustakaan sekolah, terutama buku tentang LGBTQ dan kelompok minoritas. Banyak ilmuwan, terutama yang berasal dari Indonesia dan pernah mengalami hal yang sama di tanah air, menyesalkan hal ini. Sudah menjadi bagian dari sejarah Indonesia ketika ratusan buku yang dinilai meresahkan […]
BANGKOK — Labor rights activists on Wednesday urged the government to rethink its policy of putting hundreds of migrant workers in the same residential buildings without segregating those who caught the virus from those who did not. Food, unemployment assistance, and more sanitary quarantine lodgings are also sorely needed by the workers left adrift by […]