Indonesia may need an additional 100 trillion rupiah ($6.1 billion) this year to expand President Prabowo Subianto’s free lunch program to cover nearly 83 million people by year-end, according to a top official.

A young woman was at work in Bandung, Indonesia, when her nose ring got stuck in the mesh backing of an office chair.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia needs 100 trillion rupiah ($6.11 billion) in additional budget for its free nutritious meals programme to be expanded to reach 82 million recipients, the head of a government agency overseeing the programme said on Friday.

Two Indonesian migrant workers returned home over the weekend after being held against their will and forced into working for an online scam operation in Myanmar’s rebel-controlled Myawaddy border region.

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Indonesia's finance ministry said on Thursday it had issued a regulation to implement the global minimum corporate tax at 15% effective from Jan. 1, as part of an international push to limit tax competition between countries.

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President Prabowo Subianto has initiated a discernible tilt away from regional engagement toward major-power diplomacy.

Indonesia needs 100 trillion rupiah ($6.11 billion) in additional budget to expand its free nutritious meals programme to reach more than a quarter of its population by year-end, the head of the agency overseeing the programme said on Friday.