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VP candidate Sandiaga Uno promises national mental health center if elected
"In Jakarta alone, 20% of people experience psychiatric disorders ranging from mild to severe. This can be seen from existing social phenomena such as suicide, drugs, etc., it is triggered by the mental health of our community,"
HIV/AID education event in Yogyakarta cancelled over concerns it was promoting LGBT
The event even had the support of the local health agency, which had agreed to do free HIV testing for participants at the event., until it got cancelled.
Legislators call for re-opening of red light district in Indonesia’s Tulungagung to prevent HIV outbreak
When the East Java capital city of Surabaya shuttered Dolly, then the largest red light district in Southeast Asia, there were fears that sex workers would be forced to go...
After LGBT paranoia threatened to shut it down, gov’t defends HIV prevention group in Riau
In a heartening move, government officials in Pekanbaru rejected the claims of anti-LGBT crusaders by giving the Indonesian Social Change Organization (OPSI) a green light to keep...
Police say eating too much durian probable cause of angkot driver’s death in Tangerang
An angkot minivan driver, identified as 53-year-old Adie, was found dead inside his vehicle in the Tangerang Regency on Saturday, with police believing his death may have been...
Morbidly obese Indonesian woman Titi Wati successfully undergoes bariatric surgery, could lose up to 25 kg per month
Titi Wati, a woman who recently made headlines after asking the Indonesian government to help treat her morbid obesity, has successfully undergone an operation that should...
Indonesian woman weighing 350 kg asks gov’t for help, no local hospital able to treat her
Because of her financial limitations, Titi is currently waiting to get government aid
Prabowo’s claim about hospital having to reuse same dialysis hose for 40 patients denied by administrators
A Gerindra representative said what Prabowo meant in his speech wasn’t a dialysis hose, but the dialyser
Sick, hungry tsunami survivors cram shelters as death toll nears 400
Desperately needed aid flowed into a stretch of Indonesia’s tsunami-struck coastline today, but humanitarian workers warned that clean water and medicine supplies were...
Teenagers in Indonesia’s Central Java are getting high from drinking water boiled in menstrual pads or diapers
Huffing glue is apparently passé.