Muhammad Aulia Rahman, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has placed oil tycoon Mohammad Riza Chalid on its wanted list after he repeatedly ignored summonses for questioning in a major corruption and money laundering case linked to fraudulent crude oil imports and processing.

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Wearing a bright orange detainee vest and with his hands cuffed, Vice Manpower Minister Immanuel "Noel" Ebenezer broke down in tears on Friday as anti-corruption officials led him to a press conference in Jakarta.

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – In an attempt to ease discontent over reports of steep property tax hikes in several regions, the government has scrambled to keep regional heads from making policies that place a significant financial burden on residents, especially amid the ongoing national economic slowdown.

Jakarta – This month 20 years ago, the world witnessed something rare: The successful resolution of a decades-long separatist conflict in Southeast Asia's largest nation.

Eka Nugraha Putra – Ahead of Indonesia's Independence Day, viral photos and videos of people waving the Jolly Roger cartoon pirate flag from the popular Japanese anime 'One Piece' broke the internet.

Aimee Gabay – A camera trap in an Indonesian mountain forest has recorded a rare Javan leopard, sparking renewed conservation monitoring efforts in the area.

Aimee Gabay, Jakarta – Some of the world's biggest consumer brands are banding together to tackle deforestation in one of Earth's richest biodiversity hotspots in Indonesia.

Andrew Mathieson – Exiled West Papuan media are calling for Fiji – in a reflection of Melanesian solidarity – to hold the greater Pacific region to account and stand against Indonesia's ongoing media blackout in addition to its human rights abuses.

Kate Lamb – The Indonesian government is working on plans to treat 2,000 people from war-ravaged Gaza, holding a series of inter-ministerial discussions to discuss logistics, legality and foreign policy implications relating to the highly sensitive proposal, according to a senior government official.

Monique Handa Shafira, Ichsan Ali, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto on Friday addressed thousands of teachers and principals of the government's new Sekolah Rakyat ("People's Schools"), a flagship program aimed at providing free quality education for children from low-income families.

Bambang Ismoyo, Jakarta – Indonesia's sovereign wealth fund, Danantara, has pledged to help resolve mounting problems at the country's first high-speed rail line, the Jakarta-Bandung service known as Whoosh, which has become an emblem of both ambition and excess.

Dandi Bajuddin, Jakarta – State-owned railway operator PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) CEO Bobby Rasyidin said that the company will coordinate with the Investment Management Agency of Anagata Nusantara (BPI Danantara) to address the debt of PT Kereta Cepat Indonesia China (KCIC).

Dani Aswara, Jakarta – Indonesia Safety Journalists Committee (KKJ) strongly condemns the planned murder of journalists in Gaza by the Israeli military. The condemnation comes after an Israeli missile attack on Sunday, August 10, 2025, that hit the Al Jazeera press tent in front of the main gate of Al Shifa Hospital.

Ahmad Fikri (Kontributor) – The West Java Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) reported that dozens of houses, as well as educational and health facilities, were damaged in Karawang Regency due to a 4.9 magnitude earthquake in Bekasi, Indonesia, on Wednesday, August 20, 2025.

Eka Yudha Saputra – Indonesia's Maluku Police Region stated that approximately 557 local residents are still displaced due to clashes between residents in Hunuth Village, Teluk Ambon District, Ambon City, Maluku, which occurred on Tuesday, August 19, 2025.

Novali Panji Nugroho, Jakarta – Tulus Abadi, the chair of the Indonesian Empowered Consumer Forum (FKBI), dismissed a remark by an Indonesian House member that proposes smoking cars on intercity trains. According to him, the proposal is absurd and ridiculous.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) has launched its second humanitarian airdrop mission for the besieged residents of Gaza, delivering nearly 30 tonnes of aid to the Palestinian territory amid rising concerns over famine among the population there.

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – Concerns are mounting that President Prabowo Subianto's free nutritious meal program could overshadow meaningful improvements in education, as nearly half of the mandated 20 percent state budget allocation for education is set to be absorbed by the costly flagship initiative next year.

Jakarta – The first few months of office normally serve as a honeymoon between an elected leader and his or her people, with the former intensifying dialogue to absorb aspirations from the grassroots and win the hearts and minds of the electorate.

Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Jakarta – Indonesia is aiming high, but the private sector is "cautiously optimistic."

Muhammad Ghafur Fadillah, Jakarta – Bank Central Asia, Indonesia's largest private lender by market value, rejected allegations that its takeover by the Djarum Group two decades ago was engineered, as its shares came under pressure following a wave of speculation on social media.

Hafizh Wahyu Darmawan, Akhdi Martin Pratama, Jakarta – A number of protesters from the Student Movement with the People (Gemarak) began filing the area in front gate to the House of Representatives (DPR) building in Senayan, Central Jakarta, on Thursday afternoon August 21.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Thirteen organizations and businesses have launched the Indonesian Reuse Association, or AGUNI, a coalition dedicated to building a sustainable reuse system to curb the country's worsening waste crisis.

Tyberius Seeto and Kayla Hill – On 17th August, Indonesia celebrated 80 years of independence, an end to a 350 year rule riddled with mass atrocities committed by the Dutch, as well as an eventual end to the Japanese empire during World War II.

Jakarta – Amass protest against a property tax hike on Tuesday turned violent in Bone regency, South Sulawesi, leaving four Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) personnel and two police officers injured in the line of duty for crowd control.

Sultan Abdurrahman, Jakarta – Several regions in Indonesia have staged demonstrations protesting the hike in the Rural and Urban Land and Building Tax (PBB-P2). Residents urged their local governments, which hold the authority to set the rates, to cancel the increases.

Washington – US health authorities announced Tuesday a recall of frozen shrimp potentially contaminated with radioactivity.

The seafood imported from a company in Indonesia has been marketed in 13 states by retail giant Walmart, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on its website.

Jakarta – Tropical wood demand from some of America's top RV brands is fuelling deforestation in Kalimantan, home to Asia's last great rainforest, according to a new investigation by environmental NGOs.

The Timorese government announced the launch of formal negotiations with neighbouring Indonesia to delimit the maritime border between the two countries, reports Lusa.

Adelia Anjani Putri – It seems like everyone is trying to leave. On social media, over office lunches, in group chats filled with job openings in Singapore and guides to Australia's working holiday visa, the idea of starting over somewhere else feels more urgent than ever.

Jakarta – The enduring maritime boundary dispute between Indonesia and Malaysia over the Ambalat block has resurfaced, this time with a twist.

Rather than reigniting legal tensions or public nationalist outrage, both governments have signaled a preference for joint development over a final, binding resolution.

Yvette Tanamal, Jakarta – "If you run, you are shot. If you don't, you are beaten," a 20-year-old Acehnese man said about life in the region, as reported by Human Rights Watch (HRW) in 2003, two years after president Megawati Sukarnoputri declared martial law to maintain order in the province following years of failed peace negotiations.

Abi S. Nugroho – The government of Pati Regency, in the northeast of Central Java, has always been proud of the slogan Bumi Mina Tani – an identity that appears in government symbols, on monuments, and even in the speeches of officials. 'Mina' refers to fisheries, 'tani' to farming: 'Fishing and Farming Land'. Historically, these two sectors are the lifeblood of local people.

Dinda Shabrina, Jakarta – Social Affairs Minister Saifullah Yusuf, or Gus Ipul, has uncovered significant issues within Indonesia's social welfare system, revealing that more than 2,000 social institutions are fictitious, existing in name only without any real activities.

Laurensia Yame is a mother of seven in her 50s who, with her Indigenous community, the Awyu, lives deep in the forests of South Papua Province, Indonesia. In late 2020, she heard from women traders that workers were surveying the community's forest for a company's commercial use, including Wagaban hamlet, where she farms.

Aimee Gabay, Karawang/Jakarta, Indonesia – At 55, Warno has spent the past quarter of a century making a living from a fish farm that he manages in Karawang district, in the Indonesian province of West Java. Here, in ponds spanning a combined 2 hectares (5 acres), he raises milkfish and shrimp, and grows seaweed.

Mita Amalia Hapsari, Jakarta – Thousands of job seekers crowded the Jakarta International Velodrome this week as the city government staged Jobfest 2025, one of Indonesia's largest employment fairs, featuring 2,000 openings across multiple industries.

Muhammad Aulia, Jakarta – The National Police said Wednesday that DNA testing has ruled out any biological link between former West Java governor Ridwan Kamil and a 3.5-year-old girl at the center of a defamation case.

Irfandi, Bone, S – Sulawesi. A protest against higher land and building taxes in Bone Regency, South Sulawesi, descended into chaos on Tuesday evening, leaving several people injured and forcing the local government to delay the policy.

Prisma Ardianto, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia is stepping up efforts to widen its tax base and tap into the shadow economy as it seeks to raise Rp 2,357.7 trillion ($145.6 billion) in tax revenues by 2026. The target marks a 13.5 percent increase – or Rp 280.8 trillion – from projected 2025 collections of Rp 2,076.9 trillion.

Sultan Abdurrahman, Jakarta – A journalist from CNN Indonesia, Zulkifli Natsir, was a victim of violence from authorities while covering a protest against a property tax hike in Bone Regency, South Sulawesi. The incident occurred on Tuesday, August 19, 2025.

Ade Ridwan Yandwiputra, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) considered the housing allowance for parliament members as a form of budget extravagance, estimating the total cost at a staggering Rp1.74 trillion.

Andi Adam Faturahman, Jakarta – The West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Movement (TPNPB-OPM) has accused the Indonesian military (TNI) deployed in Yakuhimo regency of planting landmines to target the militias and individuals deemed affiliated with them.

Anastasya Lavenia Yudi, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia has decided to cut the benchmark interest rate, or BI Rate, to 5.00 percent. This decision was agreed upon during the Bank Indonesia Board of Governors Meeting held on August 19-20, 2025.

Alfitria Nefi P, Jakarta – The Corps of Alumni of the Association of Indonesian Muslim Students (KAHMI), Textile Rayon, suspects that rising import quotas for yarn and fabric are causing layoffs and the closure of domestic textile factories.

Anastasya Lavenia Yudi – The Forum Indonesia for Budget Transparency (Fitra) criticized the provision of a housing allowance amounting to Rp50 million per month for House of Representatives (DPR) members.

Ema Ganivatu – In exile but unbroken, three West Papuan journalists are in Fiji calling on the Pacific to stand with them against Indonesia's ongoing media blackout and human rights abuses.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Asia Pulp & Paper, one of the world's biggest forestry groups, has effectively been given the green light to seek ethical certification from the Forest Stewardship Council a stamp of approval that it was stripped of 18 years ago for deforestation and other violations.

Ilham Oktafian, Alfida Rizky Febrianna, Jakarta – Indonesia's parliament is facing criticism over a Rp 50 million ($3,067) monthly housing allowance for each lawmaker, with analysts calling it out of touch with the economic hardships faced by most citizens.

Associated Press, Jakarta – Two men held rubber bands at chest height while a woman hopped over them from side to side, earning cheers and applause from onlookers impressed by her leaps.