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Aceh now experiencing a second tsunami, governor says

Nearly 200,000 people died in Aceh alone after a 9.1-magnitude quake off the northern province triggered the catastrophic Indian Ocean tsunami on December 26, 2004.

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An aerial photo shows Aceh Tamiang regency in Aceh on Dec. 4, 2025, one week after floods and landslides triggered by Tropical Cyclone Senyar made landfall on the northern part of Sumatra. Nearly 1.5 million people across 3,310 villages in Aceh province are affected by the disasters, according to official estimates.

Aceh scrambles to restore connection to regions cut-off by floods, landslides

Joint authorities in Aceh are working around the clock to open alternative land routes and flying in fuel to support road repairs as several regions across the province are still cut-off and hindered from receiving aid.

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Flood-affected residents walk along a muddy road in Kuala Simpang village in Aceh Tamiang, North Sumatra, on Dec. 2, 2025.

Aceh evacuees battle hunger, illness amid aid delays

Many evacuees have been forced to take shelter along the roadside, enduring scorching heat by day and cold temperatures at night due to a lack of temporary shelters. Residents are resorting to filtering water from puddles left by the flood to meet their basic drinking needs.

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Trashed: Waste pickers sift through a pile of garbage on May 20 at the Cilowong dump site in Serang, Banten. Despite playing an important role in the circular economy, waste pickers are mostly ignored and unprotected.

Dangerous levels of toxic chemicals found in blood of Indonesia’s waste workers

An analysis conducted at WIOEH’s Green Hospital Laboratory in South Korea detected 23 hazardous plastic-related chemicals in all samples, with the waste workers showing significantly higher concentrations than the control group.

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HIV/AIDS activists hand out roses and leaflets to passing motorists on Dec. 01, 2025, in Tulungagung, East Java. The sympathy campaign, held to mark World AIDS Day, aimed to raise public awareness of the dangers of HIV/AIDS and encourage high-risk groups to get early testing.

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Calls for better HIV education grow amid rising cases

As Indonesia commemorated World AIDS Day, some regions in the country recorded thousands of HIV cases, prompting renewed calls for stronger HIV education in schools and families.

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Coordinating Food Minister Zulkifli Hasan visits houses impacted by floods on Sunday in Lubuk Minturun, Padang, West Sumatra.

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Decade-old video casts food minister as ‘villain’ in Sumatra flood

Coordinating Food Minister Zulkifli Hasan has suddenly become the target of public ire after a decade-old video of his interview with actor Harrison Ford resurfaced online, which for some netizens, made him a convenient scapegoat for the deadly floods in northern Sumatra.

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Decade-old video casts food minister as ‘villain’ in Sumatra flood

University students in Banda Aceh, Aceh, gather humanitarian aid for survivors of the northern Sumatra floods and landslides on Dec. 4, 2025.

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Frustration grows over govt’s poor disaster response

Nahdlatul Ulama chairman Yahya Cholil Staquf (left) and secretary-general Saifullah Yusuf (right) leaves the room after a press briefing on the result of the organization's central board plenary meeting in Jakarta on July 28, 2024.

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NU faces money laundering allegations amid internal rift

A receptionist attends to a visitor on Oct. 21, 2024, in the lobby of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) headquarters in Setiabudi, South Jakarta.

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Court ruling raises KPK's hope for Paulus Tannos' extradition

Çoordinating Law and Human Rights Minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra delivers a speech during a press conference with Marc Gerritsen, Dutch Ambassador to Indonesia (not pictured), as they agree on the transfer of two Dutch nationals convicted of drug crimes, in Jakarta on Dec. 2, 2025. Siegfried Mets, 73, was sentenced to death by a Jakarta court in 2008 for distributing drugs, and Ali Tokman, 64, was serving life imprisonment for smuggling more than 6 kilograms of the synthetic drug MDMA.

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Indonesia, Netherlands sign deal to repatriate two convicts, one on death row

Siegfried Mets, 73, was sentenced to death in 2008 for distributing drugs, while Ali Tokman, 64, was serving life imprisonment for smuggling more than 6 kg of the synthetic drug MDMA.

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A Greenpeace activist displays a banner to reject nickel mining in Raja Ampat, Southwest Papua, during the Indonesia Minerals Conference & Expo in Jakarta on June 3, 2025.

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Rights violations continue unabated in Papua: Komnas HAM

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Decade-old satellite corruption case enters new phase

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Graves over homes: Jakarta’s cemetery crisis pushes out poor residents

Workers walk at the construction site of the Jakarta MRT Phase 2A CP202 project in Jakarta, on Thursday, Nov. 27. Construction of the Sawah Besar Station, which adopts a transit-oriented development (TOD) concept, has reached 60.2 percent and is targeted for completion and operation in 2029.

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Indonesia’s deepest multi-level MRT tunnel set to connect Kota Tua by 2029

A set of the Commuter Line urban train passes next to the under-construction Jatake Station in Tangerang regency, Banten on July 16, 2025.

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KAI reshuffles KCI leadership amid viral missing tumbler uproar

A woman washes dishes on Wednesday in a crowded neighborhood in the Tanah Tinggi subdistrict of Jakarta. The 2025 edition of World Urbanization Prospects issued by the United Nations on Nov. 18 names Jakarta and its surrounding areas the world's most populous city with 42 million people, followed by Dhaka, Bangladesh (37 million) and long-time title holder Tokyo, Japan (33 million).

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Greater Jakarta becomes world’s most populous megacity

Tasty treat: Food left by a passerby sits in front of a ginger cat, which has gone viral online, at the FX Sudirman shopping mall in Central Jakarta on Nov. 24, 2025.

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Paws for reflection: Jakartans tag strays as city mini-destinations

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Missing South Jakarta boy found dead after viral outcry

A woman removes boiled green mussels from their shells beside her daughter in a fishing community in North Jakarta on March 19, 2024.

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Shell piles engulf North Jakarta’s eroding coast

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Dangerous levels of toxic chemicals found in blood of Indonesia’s waste workers

Store owner Edward display snacks on Dec. 4, 2025, at his store at Windsor Phase shopping avenue in Batam city, Riau Islands. Micro, small and medium enterprises in Batam are finding it difficult to transport their products to other regions due to having to pay high taxes to enter Indonesian customs through the Batam free trade zone.

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Batam FTZ status prevents local MSMEs entering national market

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Coordinating economy minister office sends food aid, medical supplies to Sumatra

The Office of the Coordinating Economic Minister has dispatched around 40 tonnes of food and medical supplies to flood-ravaged Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra, as the government pressed on with search and rescue missions for a disaster that has claimed nearly 800 lives.

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Villagers receive free sacks of rice from the Indonesian Military, distributed amid relief efforts from the government's rice warehouse at Sarudik, in Central Tapanuli, North Sumatra province, on December 3, 2025.

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Sumatra flood victims scrounge for supplies after disaster

A resident observes thick clouds on Nov. 15 covering the Senayan area in Jakarta. The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) asked the public to remain alert for potential extreme weather expected through Nov. 20, due to a combination of atmospheric phenomena that triggered significant rain cloud formation across Indonesia.

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BMKG flags cyclone risk, extreme weather during year-end holidays

Fallen trees, which were swept away in a flash flood, are pictured washed up in Batang Toru, South Tapanuli, North Sumatra, on Dec. 2, 2025.

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Brimob officer finds mother's remains during N. Sumatra flood rescue

Police detectives arrest three illegal loggers who were resting after processing wooden logs into planks inside a forest in Pulau Muda village, Teluk Meranti district, Pelalawan regency, Riau, on Nov. 28, 2025. The police have arrested a total of six illegal loggers and confiscated three chainsaws from the suspects.

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