Touted as the manager of state-owned enterprise dividends for major investments, Danantara's executives are instead fighting with the government over profits.

Stefanno Sulaiman and Gayatri Suroyo, Jakarta – The House of Representatives discussed potential changes to the country's fiscal deficit limit on Thursday, with several lawmakers signal

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Indonesia's free meal initiative has consumed at least Rp 134.2 trillion (almost $7.6 billion) in the state budget this year, according to the Finance Mini

Jakarta – The Civil Society Coalition has criticised President Prabowo Subianto's plan to expand the strength of the Indonesian Military (TNI) by establishing new battalions on the pret

Hanin Marwah, Jakarta – The Advocacy Team for Democracy (TAUD), together with a coalition of civil society groups, has urged Indonesian police to immediately release two youth activists

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is investigating what it describes as a possible "shadow" network of intermediaries operating outside the formal str

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Conservationists are racing to rescue orangutans from a fire-ravaged peat-swamp forest inside an RSPO-certified oil palm concession in West Kalimantan, wit

Dian Rahma Fika Alnina, Jakarta – A number of residents from the Jakarta Citizens Coalition for Justice visited the Ministry of Social Affairs on Thursday, September 17, 2026, to protes

Singgih Wiryono, Jakarta – Amnesty International Indonesia (AII) Media Manager Haeril Halim has highlighted the 94 people who have died in refugee camps following the earthquake in East

Fia Hamid-Walker – On 31 August 2026, President Prabowo Subianto issued Presidential Instruction (Instruksi Presiden, Inpres) 11 of 2026 to strengthen enforcement of the ban on slash-an

Gembong Hanung, Jakarta – A surge in wildfires across Sumatra is putting critically endangered Sumatran elephants at greater risk of extinction, with hundreds of thousands of hectares o

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto recently defended the country's military spending, which the public had pointed out as being mammoth-sized, saying that it is st

Yenni Kwok, Kuala Lumpur – Video editor Mohamad Haazim has lost count of how many times he refreshes Malaysia's Air Pollutant Index (API) website every day to check air quality in the c

Jakarta Globe, Johor Bahru – A 36-year-old Indonesian man has become the first person in Malaysia to serve jail time for littering a cigarette butt in a public place, Bernama reported.

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – Indonesia's Constitutional Court has limited the government's authority to change allocations in the 2026 state budget through a presidential regulation wit

Tria Sutrisna, Ardito Ramadhan, Jakarta – The Grand Coalition of Indonesian Workers' Struggle is disappointed with the draft Employment Protection Law (RUU) prepared by the House of Rep

Raya Aulia Jenar, Jakarta – Human and Nature for a Sustainable Indonesia (Madani Berkelanjutan) Foundation evaluates forest fires as a real risk that could disrupt the sustainability of

Stefanno Sulaiman, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto sacked Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa after he clashed with a top ministry official who served on Prabowo's former special

When it comes to regulating cigarettes, the Indonesian government lacks a consistent perspective.

Irma puts on her heavy rubber boots as she prepares for a volunteer firefighting shift in her village of Sungai Putri, on the Indonesian side of Borneo island.

Novali Panji Nugroho, Jakarta – Secretary General of the Gerindra Party Sugiono claims that his party and coalition partners have unanimously agreed on a proposed parliamentary threshol

Penajam Paser, Indonesia – Indonesia's escalating wildfire crisis has reached the outskirts of Nusantara, the new capital city under construction as the world's fourth-most-populous cou

Stefanno Sulaiman and Gayatri Suroyo, Jakarta – Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa, who was sacked as finance minister this week, said on Tuesday he was upset to be removed from his job, but was half

Sultan Abdurrahman, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto once again reshuffled his cabinet on Monday, September 14, 2026, replacing Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa with Deputy Fin

Ruth Dea Juwita, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto ousted Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa in a latest cabinet reshuffle on Monday and appointed Deputy Finance Minister Suahasil

Singgih Wiryono, Jakarta – Amnesty International Indonesia Executive Director Usman Hamid is calling for an investigation into the accident involving the passenger ship KMP Virgo Transp

Max Lane – As a lecturer at the University of Sydney in 2008, I taught a course, "An Introduction to Asia." Its perspective was historical, and given the Western-centrism of history edu

Arnoldus Kristianus, Jakarta – Indonesia's external debt edged up to $454.8 billion in July 2026 from $454.5 billion a month earlier, while increasing 4.9% year on year, Bank Indonesia

Erfan Maruf, Jakarta – Agriculture Minister and National Food Agency chief Amran Sulaiman has flagged 25 fortified rice brands for allegedly failing to meet the nutritional standards st

Two years after the country was put on notice by the international Permanent People's Tribunal (PPT) for its abuses of the environment and indigenous communities of West Papua, and one

Imam Suhartadi, Jakarta – Indonesia has identified around 400,000 invalid records among 5.7 million prospective Hajj pilgrims currently on the national waiting list, a finding that coul

Alfy Ifthikhar – Indonesia's Climate Change Management Bill, known as the RUU Pengendalian Perubahan Iklim (PPI), has been suspended at the harmonization stage in the House of Represent

Yerica Lai, Jakarta – The next presidential election may still be three years away, but several potential contenders have already begun making early moves as President Prabowo Subianto

Antara, Makassar – The South Sulawesi provincial government has introduced an odd-even license plate system for purchases of subsidized Pertalite gasoline and diesel at fuel stations ac

Martin Bagya Kertiyasa, Theressia Silalahi, Jakarta – Newly appointed Finance Minister Suahasil Nazara said President Prabowo Subianto has instructed him to protect the health and credi

Alfy Ifthikhar – More than 300 delegates from Indonesia and across the Asia-Pacific region gathered at The Westin Resort Nusa Dua in Bali on September 8 and 9, 2026 for the Indonesia Ca

Agencies, Jakarta – More than 600 rescuers were searching for 129 people still missing after a passenger ship capsized in the Java Sea on the weekend, an official said on Monday, with t

Ni Komang Erviani, Jakarta – An Australian arrested for a public act of indecency, identified only as BA, was deported to Brisbane, Australia, on Tuesday evening.

Yvette Tanamal, Jakarta – Spreading forest and peatland fires in Indonesia have caused people to fall sick, as haze from hundreds of thousands of burned lands across the country worsen

President Prabowo Subianto attended the 2026 BRICS Summit in New Delhi, India, on September 12-13 with a message of resilience, sustainability and inclusive global growth.

Mochammad Iqbal Maulud – Students from various universities affiliated with the West Java chapter of the All-Indonesia Student Executive Board (BEM SI) staged a protest titled "Indonesi

Antara, Jakarta – A landslide occurred at an illegal gold mining site in Dongi Dongi Village, Poso Regency, Central Sulawesi, on Friday, September 11, striking several miners.

Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Jakarta – Indonesian stocks declined for a second straight week, with the benchmark index and market capitalization falling as higher oil prices and foreign selli

What is the point of building food security if the way to achieve it makes a region increasingly vulnerable to disaster?

Basten Gokkon – Indonesia's critically endangered Javan rhinos appear to be safe despite an ongoing eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau near their last remaining habitat, conservation autho

Anwar Siswadi, Jakarta – Over one hundred students from several universities in Bandung took to the streets to stage the #Indonesia Gawat Darurat (#EmergencyIndonesia) protest on Friday

Jayanty Nada Shofa & Ria Fortuna Wijaya, Jakarta – High maintenance costs and a shoestring budget have made Indonesia's fight against disasters more challenging, according to analys

Dini Suciatiningrum, Jakarta – Amnesty International Indonesia strongly condemns the military education and training (diklat) program policy for citizens and students arrested following

Almost all institutions established as part of the mandate of the 1998 Reformasi Movement have strayed from their original ideals. The Judicial Commission is no exception.

Banjarmasin, Indonesia – Siti Sarah slept in fits and starts through August as the fires broke out around her village and surrounding peatlands. One fire on Aug.