Phnom Penh – More than 1,400 Indonesians have left cyberscam networks in Cambodia in the last five days, Jakarta said on Wednesday, after Phnom Penh pledged a fresh crackdown on the ill

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M. Faiz Zaki, Jakarta – Indonesia is planning to establish waste-to-energy plants (PSEL) this year.

Andrew Tito, Jakarta – Flooding across Jakarta continued to spread on Thursday afternoon as persistent heavy rainfall inundated residential areas and major roads, according to the Jakar

Gembong Hanung, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration is set to begin the development of the so-called giant sea wall along the city's northern coast in September, as part of President P

Jakarta – The Forest Area Enforcement (PKH) Task Force claims to have seized 4.09 million hectares of oil palm plantations within forest zones throughout 2025.

Anders Kirstein Moeller – When the rain begins again, I am already on my way back home.

Maxime Aubert, Adam Brumm, Adhi Oktaviana and Renaud Joannes-Boyau – When we think of the world's oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spai

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia and eight Muslim-majority countries including Gaza mediators Qatar and Turkey have agreed to join US President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace", the S

Radhiyya Indra, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto is seeking to attract leading British universities to establish campuses in Indonesia as part of broader efforts to bolster educatio

Muhammad Aulia Rahman, Jakarta – Indonesian law enforcement authorities have launched an investigation into reports that a sugar factory was permitted to operate on land owned by the In

Anastasya Lavenia Yudi, Jakarta – The Indonesian Economists Alliance has once again issued seven economic demands in a meeting on Tuesday, January 20, 2026.

Prisma Ardianto, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia reported that banking credit growth slowed to single digits at the end of 2025, reflecting moderating demand even as monetary conditions eased

Alfitria Nefi Pratiwi, Jakarta – Permata Bank Chief Economist Josua Pardede urged that the Indonesian government immediately restore market confidence through certainty of policy direct

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently agreed to deepen bilateral ties, not long after a landmark maritime deal worth

Indonesia, West Papua – The Indonesian government's militarised approach to conflict resolution and economic development in West Papua has reached alarming levels, triggering widespread

Ria Fortuna Wijaya, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 4.75% after a two-day policy meeting, signaling a continued focus on rupiah stability ami

Wahroni, Tangerang – A group of Muslim clerics and community leaders visited the Tangerang City Legislative Council on Tuesday to voice their opposition to any move to legalize alcohol

Mita Amalia Hapsari, Jakarta – Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka has instructed government agencies to accelerate the relocation of civil servants to Nusantara, Indonesia's future c

Anastasya Lavenia Yudi, Jakarta – Indonesia's central bank, Bank Indonesia, has kept its benchmark rate at 4.75 percent.

Jakarta – Terrorism is a criminal act. Therefore, the response to it falls under the authority of the police, the law enforcement agency tasked with matters of public safety.

On 16 January 2026, Mr Kataw Kulua, 27, Mr Yaikunus Murib, 26, and Mr Lois Murib, 29, were arbitrarily arrested by personnel of the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) near the BNPB

Anastasya Lavenia Yudi, Jakarta – The nomination of Deputy Finance Minister Thomas Djiwandono as Deputy Governor of Bank Indonesia (BI) has the potential to undermine the central bank's

Antara, Jakarta – Indonesia, through the Ministry of Forestry, has joined The Coalition to Grow Carbon Markets.

Alfitria Nefi Pratiwi, Jakarta – Indonesia's Ministry of Trade revealed that no garlic imports realization has been recorded thus far.

Adi Warsidi, Jakarta – A total of 91,962 people, or 24,426 families, across Aceh remain in evacuation centers following the devastating floods and landslides that struck at the end of N

Novali Panji Nugroho, Jakarta – Chairperson of the Press Council, Komaruddin Hidayat, has expressed his appreciation for the Constitutional Court's decision regarding legal protection f

Hanin Marwah, Jakarta – Hendardi, Chairperson of the National Council of the SETARA Institute, criticized the discourse on involving the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) in counte

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Jakarta – Rupiah hit a record low against the dollar on Tuesday as investors fretted about the country's central bank independence after President Prabowo Subianto nominated his nephew

Celvin Moniaga Sipahutar, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung said record-breaking rainfall was the main cause of flooding that hit parts of the capital over the weekend, describin

Herawati Nurlia – Amnesty International Indonesia has highlighted the series of incidents of terror and threats that have befallen activists from the University of Indonesia Student Exe

Siti Syafania Kose – When I visited Roshan Learning Center in South Jakarta, lunchtime was almost over.

Budiarti Putri – It's been seven months since the Indonesian government announced the revocation of four active mining licences in Raja Ampat, West Papua, following widespread public cr

Joao Boavida Milena Pires – Despite a stable constitutional framework, sustained international assistance, and substantial public expenditure, Timor-Leste continues to experience politi

Jakarta – National Strategic Projects may well become one of the worst economic development legacies from the administrations of Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto.

Antara, Jakarta – The Forestry Ministry is auditing 24 forest utilization permits across Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra following deadly flash floods and landslides that struck t

Ade Ridwan Yandwiputra, Jakarta – Former Deputy Minister of Manpower Immanuel Ebenezer Gerungan, widely known as Noel, has confessed to his involvement in a corruption scandal.

Grace el Dora, Jakarta – The International Monetary Fund has raised its economic growth forecast for Indonesia in 2026, signaling growing confidence in the country's resilience even as

Antara, Jakarta – The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has set a Rp 134 trillion ($8 billion) non-tax revenue target for Indonesia's mining sector in 2026, lower than last year's R

Andi Adam Faturahman, Jakarta – Indonesia's Head of the National Nutrition Agency (BGN), Dadan Hindayana, said reported cases of food poisoning linked to the government's Free Nutritiou

Agencies, Jakarta – The government could potentially seize mining activities across 190,000 hectares (733.59 square miles) of illegally cleared forest, the deputy forestry minister told

Jakarta – The results of a Median survey show that the majority of respondents stated that human factors were the cause of the flash floods that hit a number of areas in Sumatra late la

Alfida Rizky Febrianna, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto has ordered the revocation of business licenses held by 28 forestry, mining, and plantation companies found to have violated

Handewi Pramesti, Bali – Growing up in Central Jakarta in the 1970s, I remember the glow of fireflies, or kunang-kunang, twinkling in the field full of banana trees in front of my house

Jakarta/Singapore – Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa pledged on Tuesday to uphold the independence of the central bank, after lingering fears about government interference in monet

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The flood and landslide disasters that hit Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra starting on November 25, 2025, killed 1,190 and left 141 people still missing as of January 17.

Andrew Mathieson – Human rights violations against Indigenous West Papuans on their ancestral territory makes Indonesia's appointment to head the United Nations Human Rights Council a "

Surabaya – Hundreds of students from the East Java Nusantara Student Executive Council (BEM) held a protest action in front of the East Java Regional Legislative Council (DPRD) building