Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, has risen to the world's largest city by United Nations count. The U.N. changed how it classifies megacity regions, grouping Jakarta and its surrounding satellite ...

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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung Wibowo announced the provincial minimum wage (UMP) hike for 2026. The minimum wage next year increased 6.17 percent from Rp5,396,761 to Rp5.72 ...

Indonesia has spent years preparing one of the most ambitious capital relocations of the 21st century: moving its political centre out of Jakarta and into a brand-new city built from scratch on the ...

To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; and to all my fellow citizens of this great nation. With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for presidency of the United ...

But the Nobel Committee's decision to make Obama the only sitting U.S. president since Woodrow Wilson to receive the Nobel Peace Prize shows the committee's clear-headed assessment that Obama's ...

PHOENIX — The crowd expected to hear President Barack Obama’s commencement speech at Arizona State University this month has swelled to 63,000 people. People began reserving their tickets within hours ...

The UN's announcement naming Jakarta the world's most populous city, with 42 million residents, came as no surprise to Radit, an Indonesian student in Melbourne. "I'm not shocked, because honestly, as ...