Jakarta – The death of a 13-year-old junior high school student in South Tangerang, Banten, last week marks yet another bleak moment for Indonesia…
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November 27, 2025
Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – The government plans to form 150 new battalions each year starting in 2026 to guard vital state assets, such as oil…
Divya Karyza, Jakarta – Despite President Prabowo Subianto's bold pledge to shift Indonesia entirely to renewable energy, a proposal to grant…
Cut Mery, Antara, Jakarta – Cyclone Senyar, an unusual weather phenomenon for the Malacca Strait, has unleashed a series of deadly…
Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Jakarta – Palm oil edged higher on Wednesday after touching a near five-month low, with Malaysian futures climbing more…
Antara, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has removed four major bills from its 2026 priority legislative program, including several high-…
Jakarta – There is another irony in this country. While President Prabowo Subianto is loudly calling for an "anti-foreign lackey" stance,…
Hendrik Yaputra, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto has agreed to a proposal that the 2026 minimum wage will not be set as a specific, fixed…
Adil Al Hasan, Jakarta – Deputy President Director of PT Garuda Indonesia Tbk (GIAA) Thomas Sugiarto Oentoro said dozens of the carrier's aircraft…
Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – Prolonged armed conflict in Papua has forced more than 100,000 indigenous people, most of them women and children, to flee…
Akmalal Hamdhi, Jakarta – The Finance Ministry will take over unpaid scholarship obligations for dozens of Papuan students studying abroad, after…
Jayapura – Amnesty International Indonesia is calling for a thorough investigation into a fatal drone attack in Dekai city, the capital of…
Jakarta – Indonesian Centre for Environmental Law (ICEL) Executive Director Raynaldo G. Sembiring is urging the National Police (Polri) to…
Sultan Abdurrahman, Jakarta – Extreme weather has severely impacted the Tapanuli Tengah Regency in North Sumatra, triggering widespread floods and…
November 26, 2025
On 16 and 17 November 2025, Mrs Irene Sokoy, a pregnant indigenous Papuan woman living on one of the small islands in Lake Sentani, Jayapura…
Ilona Estherina, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Zulkifli Hasan, commonly known as Zulhas, has reaffirmed that Indonesia will…
Yulida Nuraini Santoso – Timor-Leste's accession to the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) ended more than 12 years of waiting and…
Bambang Ismoyo, Addin Anugrah Siwi, Jakarta – The Manpower Ministry has yet to announce the 2026 provincial minimum wage (UMP) as the government…
Antara, Jakarta – Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning Minister/National Land Agency Chief (ATR/BPN) Nusron Wahid has endorsed Bali's decision to…
Addin Anugrah Siwi, Jakarta – Government has officially rolled out the second batch of the National Internship Program, placing 62,128 recent…
Andrew Tito, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is auctioning a series of confiscated assets, including a factory in Bogor…
Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Indonesia now expects its economy to expand between 5.4 and 5.6 percent year-on-year (yoy) in the fourth quarter of…
Rahmad Nur, Akmalal Hamdhi, Heru Andriyanto, Morowali, Central Sulawesi – A privately operated airport inside one of the world's largest nickel-…
Celvin Moniaga Sipahutar, Jakarta – Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Bahlil Lahadalia has voiced full support for a government…
Jakarta – State-owned energy company Pertamina has welcomed the government's plan to deploy Indonesian Military (TNI) personnel to guard its oil…
Jakarta – The Indonesian Army is enforcing security in Papua with a "smart approach" that combines proportionate force and community-focused…
Kurniawan Arif Maspul – Indonesia's overhaul of its Criminal Procedure Code could modernise justice – or entrench a system where police power…
On 25 November 2025, at around 9.00 pm, residents on Gunung Street in Dekai District, Yahukimo Regency, Papua Pegunungan province, observed a…
Zacharias Wuragil, Jakarta – Storms rarely make landfall in Aceh. But the 95B cyclone seedlings intensified into Tropical Cyclone Senyar, wreaking…
Andi Adam Faturahman, Jakarta – The construction of Jakarta's sea wall, known as the Giant Sea Wall, has been delayed due to budget and logistical…
Alfitria Nefi Pratiwi, Jakarta – The Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) has stated that the uncertainty surrounding the announcement of the…
Sahat Simatupang, Jakarta – Floods and landslides due to heavy rainfall in several regions of North Sumatra over the past few days have caused at…
Hendrik Yaputra, Jakarta – Indonesia's Supreme Council of Nahdlatul Ulama (Syuriyah PBNU), the highest authority within the world's largest Muslim…
Andi Adam Faturahman, Jakarta – Indonesia's Ministry of Law and Human Rights has proposed a fundamental change to how minor criminal offenses are…
Jakarta – Muhammad Fikry had just finished his prayers when several officers seized him in Tambelang subdistrict, Bekasi Regency, West Java, in…
Rahel Narda Chaterine, Ardito Ramadhan, Jakarta – During a meeting with the Commission for the Acceleration of Police Reform at the Ministry of…
November 25, 2025
Antara, Jayapura, Papua – The West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) has called for calm and warned against any armed conflict or political…
Wawan Kurniawan, Tangerang, Banten – Environment Minister Hanif Faisol Nurofiq has called on the provincial governments of Jakarta and West Java…
Eka Jaya Saputra, Bekasi – A massive fire broke out at the TAK Textiles Indonesia factory on Jalan Hajar Mekar in North Cikarang, Bekasi Regency,…
Anastasya Lavenia Yudi, Jakarta – The Director General of Customs and Excise of the Indonesian Ministry of Finance, Djaka Budi Utama, stated that…
Riski Maulana, Cianjur, W. Java – Operations at Aurora Word in Cianjur, W. Java, were temporarily suspended on Monday after dozens of workers were…
M. Faiz Zaki, Jakarta – Indonesia's Ministry of Finance has collected Rp11.48 trillion from 104 tax delinquents as of November 19, 2025.
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Defara Dhanya, Jakarta – Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Digital (Komdigi) is drafting a new rule that will require mobile phone users…
Hendrik Yaputra, Jakarta – Indonesia's government plans to increase allowances for honorary teachers and expand scholarship opportunities,…
Jakarta – Bank Indonesia must mend the weaknesses in the BI-Fast national retail payment system infrastructure. Vulnerabilities in the fraud…
Sultan Abdurrahman, Jakarta – Indonesia's Jakarta provincial government has officially banned the sale and consumption of meat from animals that…
Mouzinho Lopes de Araujo – The world has lost a giant with the passing of Australian media legend Bob Howarth. He was 81.
He was a…
The European Union appealed Monday a World Trade Organization ruling faulting it for mistakes in setting tariffs on Indonesia stainless steel…
Amiadji Nur Kamil, Jakarta – Illegal imports constitute a significant challenge and concern for the domestic manufacturing sector. In recent years…
Ivo Mateus Goncalves Da Cruz Fernandes – Forms of solidarity have persisted between Indonesians and East Timorese after the restoration of Timor-…




