Antara, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia's Geological Agency has begun an airborne survey in Sulawesi to identify potential new oil and gas reserves as the country seeks to expand h

Ruth Dea Juwita, Jakarta – Indonesia's bid to mass-produce cars of a homegrown brand in 2027 is "highly ambitious", experts say, noting that an electric vehicle (EV) model would require

Dani Aswara, Jakarta – The Presidium of the Indonesian Caucus for Academic Freedom (KIKA), Herdiansyah Hamzah, has stated that a series of government officials' statements regarding the

Dani Aswara, Jakarta – Major General Freddy Ardiansyah, Head of the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) Information Center, has clarified a circulating video regarding the attempted

Oyuk Ivani Siagian, Jakarta – Indonesia's Minister of Environment and Forestry, Hanif Faisol Nurofiq, has inspected corporate operations in the Batang Toru and Garoga Buntu watersheds t

Greg Fealy – Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and its high-profile chair, Kiai Yahya Cholil Staquf (commonly known as Gus Yahya), have for many years presented themselves to the world as champions

Jakarta – An Indonesian government task force has ordered dozens of companies in palm oil cultivation and mining to pay fines totalling 38.62 trillion rupiah ($2.31 billion) for operati

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The catastrophic Sumatra floods and landslides have killed at least 950 people, according to data by the national disaster authorities BNPB as of Monday at

Jakarta – Hats off to the people who have acted on their own initiative to help the victims of the disaster in Sumatra. They are volunteers in the truest sense of the word.

Ervana Trikarinaputri, Jakarta – Indonesia's Minister of Elementary and Secondary Education Abdul Mu'ti revealed that nearly 3,000 schools were damaged by ecological disasters across Ac

Sultan Abdurrahman, Jakarta – Governor of Aceh, Muzakir Manaf, confirmed that the region is receptive to foreign assistance in the aftermath of the flash floods and landslides that stru

Tempo, Jakarta – Indonesia's PT Pertamina (Persero) announced that as many as 688 fuel stations, or 98 percent of the total stations in the disaster-affected areas in Aceh, North Sumatr

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The Indonesian Employers Association, or Apindo, projects the national economy to expand between 5.0 percent and 5.4 percent year-on-year (yoy) in 2026, as

Andrea Hosana, Jakarta – A hundred Indonesian musicians have joined forces to launch Heal Sumatra, a humanitarian concert aimed at supporting victims of recent disasters across the isla

Martin Bagya Kertiyasa, Jakarta – Early government estimates show that Indonesia will need to spend around Rp 51.82 trillion (approximately $3.1 billion) to recover the disaster-induced

Jakarta – The Coalition for the Codification of Election Laws rejects the idea put forward by Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto regarding the desire to return the election of region

Andrew Tito, Jakarta – South Aceh Regent Mirwan may be dismissed from office after traveling for Umrah while his district was under a state of emergency due to devastating floods and la

Mei Leandha, Jakarta – The Governor of North Sumatra, Bobby Nasution, estimates that the total damage caused by the recent flash floods and landslides across 17 regencies and cities has

Suryadi M Nur, Jakarta – The extreme weather caused by tropical cyclone Senyar at the end of last November is suspected to have claimed many lives at sea.

Vinnilya Huanggrio, Jakarta – Recent floods and landslides in Sumatra are a sign that Indonesia can no longer claim to be beyond the reach of tropical cyclones, a climate expert has war

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto departed for the province of Aceh on Sunday morning, December 7, 2025 to observe the handling of floods that have stru

Hendrik Yaputra, Jakarta – The BNPB (National Disaster Management Agency) reported the death toll due to floods and landslides in three provinces of Sumatra, Indonesia, until Sunday, De

Oyuk Ivani Siagian, Jakarta – The government has begun investigating the alleged involvement of several companies in environmental damage that triggered floods in Sumatra.

Ervana Trikarinaputri, Jakarta – One in ten Indonesian women has experienced physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner, according to the latest National Women's Life Experi

Nandito Putra, Jakarta – Trend Asia has stated that the disappearance of millions of hectares of forest in Sumatra is linked to the issuance of forest use permits over the past decade.

Agencies, Aceh Tamiang – Residents in Aceh Tamiang climbed over slippery logs and walked for about an hour on Saturday to get aid, as the death toll from floods and landslides that hit

Antara, Jakarta – Indonesia's Environment Minister Hanif Faisol Nurofiq has identified several key activities contributing to the worsening floods in Sumatra, particularly in South Tapa

Antara, Jakarta – The development of Indonesia's new legislative and judicial districts in the future capital, Nusantara, has officially entered the construction stage after the governm

Novali Panji Nugroho, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto said his flagship free nutritious meal (MBG) program is considered the world's biggest logistics achievement in yea

Defara Dhanya, Jakarta – Indonesian environmental groups warn that the deadly flash floods and landslides that struck Aceh in late November 2025 are not isolated disasters, but part of

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto spoke on Western democracy and human rights while addressing a Golkar Party anniversary event in Jakarta on Friday, De

Dinda Shabrina, Jakarta – Indonesia's National Nutrition Agency (BGN) announced that its free nutritious food program, known as MBG, will continue to serve street children and the elder

Didi Agung Eko Purnomo – Amid public scrutiny of the flash floods and landslides that have hit Sumatra, President Prabowo Subianto has once again emphasised the importance of palm oil f

Djibril Muhammad, Jakarta – The death toll from massive flooding across Indonesia's Sumatra island climbed to 883, with 520 people still missing, according to updated figures released S

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto highlighted the use of palm oil for fuel while attending the Golkar Party anniversary event in Jakarta, December 5, 20

Erfan Maruf, Jakarta – Indonesian police have named a Chinese national, Lin Jingzhang, as a suspect in a radioactive contamination case involving Cesium-137 at a metal-waste smelting fa

Jakarta – The Indonesian Navy has foiled two separate smuggling attempts over the past week in the West Java regency of Subang and in Jakarta.

Divya Karyza, Jakarta – Indonesia is poised to attract a fresh wave of foreign investment, particularly from the United Kingdom, Taiwan and Vietnam, into its upstream oil and gas sector

Hendrik Yaputra, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto has announced a significant increase in the bonus for Indonesian athletes who secure gold medals at the 2025 SEA Games in Thailand.

Cut Mery, Salman Mardira, Jakarta – The regent of South Aceh, Mirwan MS, traveled to Saudi Arabia for an umrah pilgrimage without receiving the required clearance from Aceh Governor Muz

Sukarjito, Jakarta – Representatives from East Kalimantan visited the House of Representatives (DPR) on Thursday to protest a government decision to cut regional revenue-sharing funds,

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – Deadly floods and landslides across northern Sumatra have intensified public scrutiny of extractive industries, with environmental groups warning that years of we

Jakarta – We call on President Prabowo Subianto to reconsider the status of the catastrophic floods in Sumatra.

Yvette Tanamal, Jakarta – Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin on Wednesday joined his Australian and Papua New Guinean counterparts in Port Moresby for their inaugural trilateral meeti

Jakarta – Indonesia is unlikely to move forward with a plan to retire the Cirebon-1 coal power plant early, although it is reviewing other coal-fired plants for early shutdown, its chie

Fika Nurul Ulya, Dani Prabowo, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto has said that Indonesia must have a democratic and political system that suits the country.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Indonesia is not accepting foreign aid for now as it remains confident that it can deal with the aftermath of the catastrophic Sumatra floods on its own.

Agencies, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military stepped up its relief efforts in three provinces on Sumatra island that have been devastated by deadly floods and landslides, and Vice Presid

Arina Zulfa Ul Haq, Semarang – A number of academics, students and interfaith figures have applied for a suspension of the detention of two Semarang activists detained by the Semarang M

Siwage Dharma Negara and Leo Suryadinata – Like some of his predecessors, President Prabowo has co-opted Indonesia's tycoons to contribute to a new bond fund. To what end?