Maria Gabrielle Putrinda, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung has confirmed that the controversial concrete seawall in Cilincing, North Jakarta, has been fully licensed and approve

Ika Idris and Derry Wijaya (Monash University, Indonesia) – On the night of September 1, 2025, Indonesian police forcibly detained Delpedro Marhaen, Executive Director of the Lokatatu F

Vinnilya Huanggrio, Jakarta – The Indonesian government plans to launch six new Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in the near future, including the country's first halal industrial park in

Zacharias Wuragil, Jakarta – Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has officially declared the start of the rainy season, with several regions already trans

Sultan Abdurrahman, Jakarta – The Indonesian National Police (Polri) is once again under public scrutiny, with growing calls for reform due to cases of police violence and weak oversigh

Alberta Christina Pertiwi – In the lead-up to Indonesia's 80th Independence Day, an unexpected symbol has surfaced across social media: the Jolly Roger.

Agencies, Jakarta – Indonesia is expected to experience a longer-than-usual peak period during its wet season this year, bringing a higher risk of floods and extreme rainfall in many ar

Oslo – Norway's sovereign wealth fund said Friday it was excluding French mining company Eramet from its portfolio, citing risks that the company was contributing to human rights violat

Jakarta – "Life will find a way," thus spoke by Dr. Ian Malcolm, a character in Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park.

Dinda Shabrina, Jakarta – Danu Ali, the head of the Cilincing Fishers Community in North Jakarta, said fishing catches in the area are down 70 percent following the development of emban

Ilona Estherina, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has officially moved half of its funds deposited in Bank Indonesia (BI) to the accounts of five state-owned banks.

Dani Aswara, Jakarta – The Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) has affirmed that cyber threats are borderless and cannot be easily distinguished between attacks originating from abro

Anna Hartley – Two men have been charged after a two-year counter-terrorism investigation allegedly linked them to the trafficking of firearms and military-grade equipment from Australi

Dythia Novianty, Yaumal Asri Adi Hutasuhut – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has revealed that there was alleged forced disappearances that occurred

Antara, Jakarta – Indonesia is preparing to import fuel from the United States in a bid to ease gasoline shortages at private gas stations, including those operated by Shell and BP, the

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – Former Minister of Religious Affairs, Lukman Hakim Saifuddin, stated that President Prabowo Subianto has committed to upholding civilian supremacy.

Dinda Shabrina, Jakarta – The massive demonstrations at the end of August 2025 left a deep scar.

Yohannes Tohap, Jakarta – Indonesia's environment minister has blamed poor waste management and uncontrolled villa construction for exacerbating the floods and landslides in Bali that k

Celvin Moniaga Sipahutar, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto is planning to set up a new commission dedicated to driving reforms in the police force, according to a group of public fi

Ahmad Baihaqi, Jakarta – An early morning explosion tore through a residential neighborhood in South Tangerang, just south of the Indonesian capital, destroying homes and injuring sever

Jakarta – State health insurer BPJS Kesehatan will require its participants to undergo a health screening test, starting this month or in October.

Antara, Jakarta – Starting in 2026, Industry Ministry will no longer continue incentives for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) imported as completely built-up (CBU) units into the domest

Alfitria Nefi P, Jakarta – The Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs, Zulkifli Hasan, revealed that 9 out of 14 containers of imported goods from the Philippines were fo

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Flooding disasters in Indonesia are increasingly traced not to natural causes, but to corporate destruction of peatlands, NGO Pantau Gambut warns in its ne

Deni Ghifari, Jakarta – The government has announced plans to shift some state deposits from the central bank to commercial banks to allow for more loan disbursements and thereby invigo

Jakarta – Crime syndicates may be setting up a scam centre in Asia's youngest nation, East Timor, the United Nations said on Thursday, as a multibillion-dollar online fraudindustry spre

Jakarta – Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa begins his job as the country's new finance minister at a tough moment, as the 2026 budget plan comes with lots of open questions but little time to find

Agencies, Denpasar – The death toll from deadly flash floods that swept Bali and East Nusa Tenggara, rose to 19 on Thursday, officials said, with five others missing.

Jakarta – Government authorities have seized a small section of the world's largest nickel mine for encroaching on forest areas without permission, authorities said Friday.

The report, Bringing it All Back Home: The Role of British Companies in the Destruction of West Papua, is co-authored by Professor David Whyte and Samira Homerang Saunders from Queen Ma

Resty Woro Yuniar – Indonesia is seeking China's help to build a US$80 billion giant sea wall along the northern coast of Java in a project that officials see as essential to protecting

Oyuk Ivani Siagian, Jakarta – The Jakarta Metro Police will deploy 256 personnel for a large-scale patrol in the city this afternoon, Friday, September 12, 2025.

Novali Panji Nugroho, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) sent a letter of objection to the Secretariat General of the House of Representatives (DPR) on Friday, September 12, 202

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – The Vice Chairperson of Indonesia's Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK), Sri Suparyati, stated that the national human rights institution (LN HAM) i

Dian Rahma Fika, Jakarta – Nepal is currently facing a political crisis following massive protests driven by Generation Z that have forced Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to resign.

Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto's September 8 reshuffle of the Red-White Cabinet, which replaced Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati with Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa, has drawn sharp s

Hendro D Situmorang, Jakarta – Indonesia's meteorological agency on Friday warned of another week of extreme weather across the country, just days after Bali was hit by its most severe

Ichsan Ali, Associated Press, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto flew to Doha, Qatar, on Friday to meet Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, in a visit to show Jakarta's s

Nida Sahara, Jakarta – Bank Central Asia (BCA), Indonesia's largest private lender, denied rumors on Friday that its investment fund accounts had been compromised, resulting in losses o

Andrew Tito, Jakarta – Indonesian military police have detained an Army corporal accused of acting as a go-between in the abduction and killing of a state-owned bank branch manager, a c

Jakarta – Government authorities have seized a small section of the world's largest nickel mine for encroaching on forest areas without permission, authorities said Friday.

Jakarta – There is no justification for the destruction and looting that have accompanied the demonstrations over the last two weeks.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has allowed a controversial nickel mine to resume operating in the marine haven of Raja Ampat, despite a company-commissioned stu

Rome (AsiaNews/Agencies) – On Wednesday, some 300,000 people gathered at the Taci Tol esplanade in Dili, Timor-Leste, to mark the first anniversary of Pope Francis's visit to the Southe

Kuala Lumpur (Bernama) – Timor-Leste President Dr Jose Ramos-Horta has reaffirmed his nation's commitment to deepening relations with Malaysia through a comprehensive strategic framewor

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – The Nation's Conscience Movement, a coalition of prominent intellectuals and religious leaders, has called on President Prabowo Subianto to release activist

Daniel Ahmad Fajri, Jakarta – Brigadier General Freddy Ardianzah, Head of the Information Center for the Indonesian Military (TNI), stated that there are alleged criminal acts of defama

Antara, Timika, Papua – The Timika Search and Rescue (SAR) Office confirmed Thursday that all four people aboard the Intan Angkasa Air Service helicopter PK-IWS, which crashed in Jila D

Antara, Jakarta – The equatorial Rossby phenomenon that triggered deadly floods in Bali earlier this week has shifted westward toward Java, Indonesia's disaster management agency said W