Dede Leni Mardianti, Jakarta – The Executive Board of the All-Indonesian Student Association (BEM SI) has announced plans for a nationwide demonstration.

Ni Made Tasyarani, Jakarta – Indonesia is among the top countries globally in the number of artificial intelligence users but lags far behind in AI development, revealing a yawning digi

Jakarta – A speedboat carrying 18 passengers capsized in the waters of Mentawai Islands regency, West Sumatra, on Monday, an incident that once again underscored Indonesia's ongoing str

Jakarta – The Bali provincial administration plans to ban the production of small plastic packaging, or sachet, starting in 2026 as a response to suggestions from environmentalists afte

Alif Ilham Fajriadi, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto has pledged to provide free medical treatment for the poor if the state budget allows.

Hendrik Yaputra, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto claimed that corruptors pay the masses for demonstrations under the titles 'Dark Indonesia' (Indonesia Gelap) and 'Let's

Nandito Putra, Jakarta – The Indonesian Transport Workers Union (SPAI) is calling on the government to swiftly regulate the pricing scheme for food and beverage deliveries via online mo

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto on Sunday renewed his pledge to crack down on food cartels that distort national food distribution for profit, saying their actions c

Rizky Hidayat, Banyuwangi, E – Java.

Antara, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto claimed that Indonesia's national development is currently on the right track.

Muhammad Ghafur Fadillah, Jakarta – The number of investors in Indonesia's capital market rose to 17 million by the end of June 2025, up from 14.87 million at the end of 2024 and 12.17

Daniel Ahmad Fajri, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto has voiced concern over deceptive practices by several entrepreneurs involved in rice adulteration, calling them serious violati

Hendrik Yaputra, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto has introduced a new term to criticize those he sees as excessively greedy in the pursuit of profit.

Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Jakarta – Daikin has begun mass distribution of its first locally manufactured residential air conditioners from its new West Java factory.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto officially launched 80,081 rural cooperatives on Monday as Jakarta waged war against food cartels that had caused an annual stat

Jakarta – As an oil trader who has done business under every regime, Mohammad Riza Chalid seemed to be above the law.

Melynda Dwi Puspita, Jakarta – Tens of thousands of online motorcycle taxi (ojol) drivers from Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi (Jabodetabek) are staging a demonstration tod

Hendrik Yaputra, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto remarked that there is a growing trend of people who believe they are highly intelligent.

Jakarta – Three people died and more than 500 others were rescued after a ferry caught fire off the northern coast of Sulawesi Island, emergency officials said Monday.

Max Lane – Living in Australia, one sees almost every week a news report about some event or other in Bali, Indonesia's primary tourist destination.

Solo – President Prabowo Subianto has again touched on the wave of demonstrations in early 2025. He accused the actions of being fabricated by those who wanted make Indonesia fail.

Bukittinggi, West Sumatra – Authorities monitoring Mount Marapi, one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes, have reported a string of equipment thefts that have compromised early warning

Wijayanti Putri, Theressia Sunday Silalahi, Solo, Central Java – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto paid a visit to his predecessor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Sunday to personally repor

Jakarta – Minister of Culture Fadli Zon stated that Indonesia holds the potential to become the world's cultural capital through its diverse cultural expressions, including traditional

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – As uncertainty clouds the status of Nusantara Capital City (IKN), Indonesia's NasDem Party proposes a temporary moratorium on the new capital city developme

Ary Hermawan – On Friday, 18 July 2025, the Jakarta Corruption Court sentenced former trade minister Thomas Lembong to 4.5 years in prison for his role in a corruption case centering on

Syifa Alifa, Jakarta – Former secretary of the State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) Ministry, Muhammad Said Didu, has strongly criticized the verdict against Thomas Trikasih Lembong or Tom Lem

Effendi Rusli, Pekanbaru, Riau – Haze from forest and land fires in Riau province has crossed the border into Malaysia, according to the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (

Chandra Adi Nurwidya, Yudha Setiawan Pane, Vinnilya Huanggrio, Jakarta – Puspa, a young woman from Yogyakarta, thought she was on her way to a decent job in Thailand.

Annisa Febiola, Jakarta – Indonesian Communication and Digital (Komdigi) Minister Meutya Hafid has firmly denied any government plan to restrict internet-based voice and video call serv

Wahyu Sahala Tua, Jakarta – Indonesia's homegrown electronics company Polytron has officially started mass production of its electric vehicles in Indonesia.

Adinda Jasmine, Jakarta – The Indonesian government, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has strongly condemned the Israeli military strike on the Holy Family Catholic Church in Ga

Djibril Muhammad, Jakarta – Indonesia has certified more than 80,000 village-based cooperatives under the Merah Putih Cooperative program, a major step toward strengthening the grassroo

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – ASEAN is set to officially accept Timor-Leste as its when the group's leaders gather in Kuala Lumpur this October, thus finally ending the half-island nati

Hendrik Yaputra, Jakarta – The National Democracy (NasDem) Party has urged the central government to issue a temporary moratorium on the development of the new capital, Nusantara Capita

Akmalal Hamdhi, Jakarta – Indonesia will eliminate import tariffs on nearly all US-origin goods as part of its latest trade agreement with the United States, but certain products such a

Ade Ridwan Yandwiputra, Jakarta – The Ministry of Immigration and Correction has canceled the launch of the new red and white Indonesian passport design, which was initially scheduled f

Alexandra Stevenson and Hasya Nindita – For more than a decade, Rudi Hendri sold locally made clothes from a stall inside Jakarta's labyrinthine Tanah Abang market.

Ilona Estherina, Jakarta – U.S. President Donald Trump has lowered import tariffs on Indonesian products to 19 percent from the previous 32 percent.

Resty Woro Yuniar – President Prabowo Subianto's decision to assign Vice-President Gibran Rakabuming Raka responsibility for Papua has fuelled speculation that he is being politically s

Daniel Ahmad Fajri, Jakarta – Following two consecutive accidents involving foreign hikers on Mount Rinjani's Pelawangan route towards Lake Segara Anak, Coordinating Minister of Politic

Annisa Febiola, Jakarta – Suroto, Chairperson of the Association of Strategic Socio-Economic Cadres (AKSES), criticized the 19 percent reciprocal tariff imposed by the United States on

Ade Ridwan Yandwiputra, Jakarta – Minister of Transmigration Muhammad Iftitah Sulaiman Suryanagara announced that the industrial development project on Rempang Island has been temporari

Muhammad Aulia Rahman, Jakarta – Indonesian authorities are expanding their search for reclusive oil tycoon Muhammad Riza Chalid after Singapore denied that the fugitive businessman is

Spoorthy Raman – With its long, pendulous nose, characteristic pot belly and large size, the odd-looking, leaf-eating proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) may not feature on the list of

Iman Rahman Cahyadi, Antara, Garut, West Java – Three people, including an eight-year-old girl, were killed in a stampede during a public celebration in Garut, West Java, marking the we

Jakarta – Indonesia is still negotiating details of its recently-reached trade deal with the United States after Washington lowered tariff rates on the Southeast Asian country, and is p

Hanaa Septiana, Jakarta – The police have exposed a case of illegal mining in the Nusantara Capital (IKN), which has cost the country Rp5.7 trillion.

Dian Rahma Fika, Jakarta – The National Nutrition Agency (BGN) has responded to reports of larvae or maggots found in the Free Nutritious Meal (MBG) program at two schools in Tuban Rege

Kerry Smith - July 6 marked 27 years since the Biak Massacre in 1998, when Indonesian security forces massacred scores of people in Biak, West Papua.