Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesia's 2019 state budget deficit totaled 2.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), wider than the government's target of 1.8 percent due a revenue shortfall of around Rp 207.9 trillion (US$15 billion).

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – Experts on urban planning and flood mitigation have urged the public to engage in a healthier, more comprehensive discussion about flood mitigation instead of riding on a political spat between Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan and Public Works and Housing Minister Basuki Hadimuljono regarding a 17-kilometer stretch of the Ciliwung River, a minor issue in Grea

M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – One of the lawyers representing six Papua activists being tried for treason, Annisa Rizky, says that her clients are being criminalised for excursing their freedom of expression.

Because, according to Rizky, the six Papua activists were expressing an opinion in public with good intent, not committing makar (treason, subversion, rebellion).

Jakarta – Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Mahfud MD said the government aimed to counter China's claim over parts of its EEZ by mobilizing a fleet of fishing vessels to occupy and exercise their exclusive rights in waters where authorities have spotted Chinese coast guard vessels still operating.

Jakarta – The government is looking to reform five issues in the current Labor Law that some say have deterred investment into the country through an omnibus bill on job creation.

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Jakarta Police investigators summoned Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan on Monday to question him as a witness over an acid attack on him in April 2017.

Novel was questioned as a witness for the first time since the police arrested two of their active officers for allegedly carrying out the attack.

Jakarta – In the latest of a string of incidents that reflect poorly on the airline, a Garuda Indonesia passenger has claimed that she and her family were "detained" by Garuda employees who accused her husband of insulting the airline.

Twitter user @jesswjk described the events on her Twitter account on Sunday night.

Jakarta – The partial collapse of a five-story building in Jakarta on Monday morning has reportedly injured 11 people, according to an official.

The building is located on Jl. Brigjen Katamso near the Slipi overpass heading toward Tanah Abang in Central Jakarta.

Jakarta – A total of 25 dead turtles found in the waters of Sepang Bay in Bengkulu, with the latest discovered on Friday, may possibly have been killed by rising sea temperatures, an expert has said.

A marine science lecturer from Bengkulu University, Dewi Purnama, said marine biota live in an environment with temperatures ranging from 28 and 30 degrees Celsius.

Jakarta – Bogor Regent Ade Yasin gave a "cartoonish" response to Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan's argument that recent flooding in Jakarta was mainly caused by excessive water flows from Bogor regency and other adjacent areas.

Eisya A. Eloksari, Jakarta – The government is planning to create a national talent management body this year in an effort to enhance human capacity development, which the President said was at the top of the agenda in his second term.

Jakarta – The Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam) has recorded that over the last five years conflicts involving mining have occurred on land covering some 925,748 hectares, involving at least 71 cases.

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court (MK) has rejected a judicial review of Law Number 12/1969 on the Formation of the West Irian (Papua) Autonomous Province and Autonomous Regencies in the Province of West Irian which was submitted based on the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia.

Jakarta – The legal team representing Surya Anta Ginting and three other Papua defendants charged with treason and criminal conspiracy submitted a demurrer (eksepsi) or note of objection against the public prosecutor's indictment during a hearing at the Central Jakarta District Court on Monday January 6.

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – Jakarta's provincial government is facing the prospect of a class action lawsuit from residents impacted by the disastrous New Year's Day floods that have so far killed 67 people.

Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian government on Monday urged local fishermen to sail to North Natuna Sea to catch fish and help to assert the country's sovereignty in its northern maritime borders amid China's territorial claims.

Syafiq Hasyim – In Indonesia, there has been an increasing tendency to incorporate sharia into the legal and public sphere (shariatisation) in the post-reform era since 1998.

Mudslides and power blackouts have hampered the search for people missing in massive floods in Indonesia's capital, where more than 60 people have died and some of the tens of thousands of evacuees are living in damp, cramped emergency shelters.

A group of Jakarta citizens say they're going to launch a class action lawsuit against Governor Anies Baswedan over what they perceived to be inadequate prevention and handling of the New Year flood crisis in the capital.

Citizens involved in the lawsuit are seeking compensation from Governor Anies' administration for material damages caused by the floods.

Karlis Salna – Indonesia's government and central bank are running into policy limits as they try to stimulate Southeast Asia's largest economy.

Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian government will never negotiate its sovereign rights over the Natuna waters off Riau Islands province with China, following alleged border trespass by Chinese fishing boats and Coast Guard in the area, the chief security minister said on Sunday.

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – State-run oil company Pertamina reduced prices of gasoline and diesel fuels by between 6 percent and nearly 13 percent, effective on Sunday.

Arlina Arshad – The heavy rainfall pounding Indonesian capital Jakarta and its surrounding areas over the New Year period was "not ordinary" and, when combined with the city's overcrowding and overdevelopment problems, led to one of the worst floodings in years – claiming over 40 lives and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless.

Tabita Diela, Stanley Widianto, Jakarta – Floods that killed more than 50 people in Indonesia's capital after the biggest rainfall since records began should be a wake-up call to climate change in one of the world's biggest carbon emitters, environmental groups said.

Joe Cochrane – Trouble is brewing in Indonesia's "Island of the Gods" and it seems there are plenty of things to blame: Donald Trump, cheap tours aimed at the Chinese market, and worsening pollution.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Rawa Jati Sector 7 was a bustling area of Jakarta three days ago. Now, it is a ghost town, devastated by floods that have wrecked its power supply, poisoned drinking water and driven frightened residents to evacuation centres.

Tasha Wibawa – Indonesia is often presented as one of Australia's most important neighbours and strategic allies, with formal diplomatic relations between the two nations marking a 70-year milestone last month.

Krithika Varagur, Jakarta – The death toll from floods caused by torrential rains in the Indonesian capital rose to at least 53 as rescuers found more bodies, disaster officials said on Saturday.

Max Walden – Indonesia's air force has dropped salt flares on storm clouds in an effort to prevent further torrential rain over the capital Jakarta, after deadly floods ravaged the city over the New Year period.

Arya Dipa, Bandung and Jakarta – The West Java administration declared an emergency status on Friday after floods and landslides hit several areas in the province, as well as in Jakarta and Banten, since New Year's Eve, killing more than 30 people and displacing more than 170,000.

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Chief of Climate and Air Quality Information Dissemination of the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (BMKG) Agency Harry Tirto Djatmiko asserted that the initial information concerning potential flood from the BMKG has not been utilized well.

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – Two residents of Lebo Village in Sangihe Island, North Sulawesi, were killed after being washed away in a flash flood on Friday morning.

A flash flood and landslide struck the village at 5:30 a.m., killing Lahode Mangape, 83, and Armand, 18, injuring several others and damaging multiple buildings, including houses.

Isal Mawardi, Jakarta – Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto invited veterans of the Seroja Operation in East Timor to his private residence in Hambalang on Wednesday. The invitation was to show his respect to the former fighters.

Jakarta – Indonesians are no strangers to disaster, both natural and manmade. But in the face of such trials, the people of the archipelago are known to tap into their unique brand of quirky humor to cope and bring light to even the grimmest of circumstances.

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – The death toll from floods in Indonesia's capital has risen to 43 as rescuers found more bodies amid receding floodwaters, disaster officials say.

Now that much of the floods in the Greater Jakarta Area have subsided, the inevitable blame game for the deadly disaster has begun, in which it doesn't appear that the country's leaders can agree on who or what caused the floods.

First, it was President Joko Widodo who gave his assessment on the floods with an obvious conclusion that most people would agree with.

Jakarta – A flash food has killed at least three people and injured several others in Lebo village in Manganitu district, Sangihe Islands regency, North Sulawesi.

Sangihe Regent Jabes Gaghana said the flood hit the village at 6 a.m. on Friday. Only one of the three bodies has been recovered so far.

Jakarta – It has been estimated that retailers in Greater Jakarta will have lost more than Rp 1 trillion (US$71.91 million) as retail shops in the area cease operations on account of severe flooding since Tuesday night, according to a retailers association.

Jakarta – The massive floods that hit Jakarta on Wednesday swept away not only waste but also reusable household appliances, such as TVs and refrigerators. As a result, people were lining up at the Manggarai sluice gate in Central Jakarta to collect such items.

Benjon, a resident of Penggangsaan district, had come to the gate on Thursday to collect items to resell.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Police are looking into illegal logging as a possible factor contributing to heavy flooding that killed three people and left two missing in North Sumatra's North Labuhan Batu regency.

Bisnis, Jakarta – The growing international tourist visits from January to November 2019 did not coincide with the occupancy levels of hotels, which experienced a drop compared to the same period in 2018. This is due to the shifting trend from hotels to virtual home-sharing sites.

Rosniawanti Fikry Tahir, Jakarta – A student of the Halu Oleo Kendari University, Muhammad Iksan, fell victim to a machete attack by an unknown person on Thursday, January 2, after participating in a protest against the disarray surrounding the nickel mine at North Konawe.

Robertus Wardi and Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military, or TNI, has raised combat alert for its forces stationed in the Natuna archipelago – in the south part of the disputed South China Sea – in response to Chinese vessels trespassing into Indonesia's exclusive economic zone, or the EEZ.

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – Indonesians have flooded the social media accounts of Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, or FIA, with pleas to cancel their electric car race in the country's capital in June.

Investor Daily, Jakarta – Capital flow to Indonesia totaled Rp 224,2 trillion, or $16 billion, throughout last year – likely to bring the country's balance of payment into positive territory, the central bank announced on Friday.

Diana Mariska, Jakarta – Fourteen organizations grouping in the Islamic Organization Friendship Body, or LPOI, expressed their support on Friday for government's continued struggle to eradicate radicalism in a country with the world's biggest Muslim population.

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – More than 740 neighborhoods in Greater Jakarta and 107 in Banten remain without power as of Friday noon after severe flooding since Wednesday.

Jessica Damiana, Jakarta – The death toll from flash floods and landslides in and around Indonesia's capital Jakarta reached at least 19 on Thursday, with more heavy rain forecast, authorities said.

Erwin Renaldi – Nidya Desianti and her husband had just finished paying off their mortgage and were excited to start the new year living in their new home in Jakarta.

Then, the floods hit.

Heavy rains inundated Southeast Asia's biggest capital city on Wednesday, displacing 30,000 people and leaving at least 21 dead.

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – Flash floods triggered by the heaviest rains ever recorded in Jakarta wreaked havoc across the Indonesian capital Jakarta and its satellite cities on the first day of the new year. Authorities have attributed much of the damage from the disaster, in which at least 19 people have died, to years of environmental degradation.