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A journalist takes photo of a picture showing Surakman, a crewmember of the boat Arupadhatu 1 that went missing while carrying journalists covering the eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau in the Sunda Strait, during a press briefing on Sept. 23 at the Banten Police headquarters in Serang, Banten. The police identified a body found on Enggano Island, Bengkulu, as Surakman following DNA identification. — A journalist takes photo of a picture showing Surakman, a crewmember of the boat Arupadhatu 1 that went missing while carrying journalists covering the eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau in the Sunda Strait, during a press briefing on Sept. 23 at the Banten Police headquarters in Serang, Banten. The police identified a body found on Enggano Island, Bengkulu, as Surakman following DNA identification.`

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Crew member from missing Anak Krakatau boat identified

The crew member’s body from the missing boat of journalists covering the eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau on Sept. 7 was initially found on Enggano Island in Bengkulu, around 350 kilometers west of the volcano in the Sunda Strait.

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Batam residents protest data centers amid water crisis

Residential areas have their clean water supplies cutoff completely while data centers in Nongsa Special Economic Zone enjoy sufficient water.

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Prosecutors demand 8.5-year prison sentence for suspended Pati regent Sudewo

Sudewo is accused of extorting officials appointed to various positions in 401 village administrations across 21 districts in Pati, Central Java. He is also charged with accepting bribes linked to railway track projects at the Transportation Ministry’s Railway Directorate General in 2022, when he was serving as a member of the House of Representatives (DPR).

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Culture Minister Fadli Zon speaks during a media briefing on the launch of Sejarah Indonesia: Dinamika Kebangsaan dalam Arus Global (Indonesian History: National Dynamics in Global Currents) in Jakarta on Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. The Culture Ministry launched the first five volumes of the 10-volume series, which are available for free download through its digital platform, pustakabudaya.id.

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Inconsistencies mar Indonesia-centric history books

Upon closer reading of the released volumes, historians have identified problems ranging from questionable historical claims to gaps in chronology and concerns over how Indonesia’s history is framed.

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A resident walks past debris following a flash flood in, Solok regency, West Sumatra, on Sept 22, 2026. The flash flood, which struck a day prior, killed one, and injured four others.

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One killed, another missing after flash floods hit West Sumatra

The floods struck at about 7:30 p.m. after hours of torrential rain, sending logs, mud and rocks into residential areas and government buildings.

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Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister Nusron Wahid (left) hands over a copy of the government's response to the agrarian reform bill to House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Sufmi Dasco Ahmad (right) during a plenary session at the House on Sept. 22, 2026.

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Agrarian reform bill gets mixed reaction

The bill’s passage served as a gift for farmers ahead of National Farmers Day, which is commemorated every Sept. 24, said Baleg deputy chair Ahmad Iman Sukri.

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Members of the Indonesian Army gather near a line of Brazilian-made Astros II self-propelled multiple rocket launchers on Nov. 14, 2019, in Central Pian, Natuna regency, the Riau Islands.

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Army to establish Riau Islands command on TNI Day

The Indonesian Army plans to inaugurate a new Riau Islands command on TNI Day as part of the military's move to establish five new Kodam this year, including in Yogyakarta, East Nusa Tenggara, North Maluku and Central Papua.

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Illustration of a police tape sealing a crime scene.

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Indian arrested for smuggling gold bars to Thailand via N. Sumatra airport

The suspect was carrying four gold bars weighing 1.5 kilograms and worth some Rp 3.95 billion (US$222,163) and tried to smuggle them into Thailand.

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President Prabowo Subianto (fourth right) walks along Darussalam Gontor Modern Islamic boarding school leader Hasan Abdullah Sahal (fifth right) after a speech at Gontor’s centennial celebration on Sept. 19 in Ponorogo, East Java.

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Gontor leader’s blunt remarks highlight ‘pesantren’ political independence

Badui tribe members play traditional Sundanese angklung during the annual Ngaseuk ceremony on Oct. 5, 2025, in Lebak, Banten, to celebrate the planting of rice on dry land to fulfill their daily needs.

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Indigenous peoples bill in limbo as House rushes agrarian reform

Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister Nusron Wahid flashed a thumbs-up following a Legislative Body (Baleg) plenary meeting at the Parliamentary Complex in Senayan, Jakarta, on Sept. 21, 2026.

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Nusron leaves Golkar post months before Agrarian Ministry graft probe

President Prabowo Subianto gestures on Friday while speaking at the 28th anniversary event of National Mandate Party (PAN) in Jakarta. PAN is a member of Prabowo’s ruling coalition.

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Prabowo’s latest swipe at experts draws backlash

Former Italian Navy aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi docks on Sept. 18 upon its arrival from Italy at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta ahead of its handover to the Indonesian Navy.

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Indonesia prepares for new era of naval power

A staff member of the Regional Disaster Agency (BPBD) sprays water on a fire in a peatland area burned by wildfires, on Tuesday in Kubu Raya, West Kalimantan province.

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Indigenous Kalimantan people sue govt over wildfire negligence

President Prabowo Subianto (center) presides over a limited cabinet meeting on Sept. 1 with several cabinet ministers on his administration's housing program at his private residence in Hambalang, Bogor regency, West Java.

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Recentralization concerns in fiscal, education heighten

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Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung (left) poses with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani during a bilateral meeting at Civic Hall in New York in the United States on Sept. 20, 2026, on the sidelines of the Urban 20 Mayors Summit.

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New York offers Jakarta assistance on municipal bond plan

South Jakarta Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) personnel fill residents’ buckets with water on Sept. 16 in West Cilandak, South Jakarta. BPBD South Jakarta, in collaboration with city-owned water company PAM Jaya, distributed free clean water to residents affected by water shortages caused by drought, which has left water supplies cloudy and reduced availability.

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Jakarta water shortages worsen as dry season drags on

President Prabowo Subianto (second left) and Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung (second
right) test the Jakarta light rapid transit (LRT)’s extension from North Jakarta to Manggarai,
South Jakarta, on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026.

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Prabowo opens new LRT link, backs Jakarta’s expansion push

Extra lesson: Children in fourth to sixth grade do coloring activities with volunteers during the noon session at Rumah Belajar Senen in Senen, Central Jakarta, on July 18, 2026.

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Jakarta’s makeshift classrooms under sweltering threat

Director of the Jakarta Police Criminal Investigation Department, Sr. Comr. Iman Imanuddin,(left) and spokesperson Sr. Comr. Budi Hermanto (right) show face sketches of alleged perpetrators of unrest that led to the killing of 60-year-old mirror vendor Bambang Setiyawan in Pejompongan, Central Jakarta, during a press briefing at the Jakarta Police headquarters in South Jakarta on Sept. 2, 2026. The police also named 47 suspects allegedly involved in the damaging of public facilities and other violent acts during the unrest.

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Calls mount for police to hunt down mastermind behind deadly Jakarta unrest

Firefighters spray water along Jl. Sudirman in Central Jakarta on Sept. 9, 2026 to clear volcanic ash spewed from Mount Anak Krakatau's eruption.

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Jakarta quick fixes become rare bright spot amid disasters, government shortcomings

Jakarta Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) personnel sit in the agency's patrol car on Jan. 10, 2024, in Jakarta.

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Jakarta to expand Satpol PP amid staffing gaps

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Members of the Indonesian Army gather near a line of Brazilian-made Astros II self-propelled multiple rocket launchers on Nov. 14, 2019, in Central Pian, Natuna regency, the Riau Islands.

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Army to establish Riau Islands command on TNI Day

Illustration of a police tape sealing a crime scene.

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Indian arrested for smuggling gold bars to Thailand via N. Sumatra airport

A stock image illustrates online sex work.

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Bali authorities detain 13 foreign nationals over alleged prostitution

A group of rebels from the West Papua National Liberation Army-Papua Freedom Organization (TPNPB-OPM) gathered behind a couple, identified as Kumis Kogoya and Seli Wenda, before their execution-style killing on July 21 along the Trans Papua Highway in Seradala District, Yahukimo regency, Papua Highlands. The rebels killed a total of three civilians in execution-style shootings, accusing the victims of being intelligence agents for the Indonesian government.

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Six suspected OPM rebels arrested amid rising violence targeting civilians

Firefighters extinguish forest and land fires in Banjar, South Kalimantan, on September 21, 2026. Toxic haze has shrouded parts of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore for weeks as Jakarta struggles to contain fires that have scorched large tracts of Borneo and Sumatra, with the smoke drifting across the region.

Indonesia doing 'everything' but struggling to curb fires

Dozens of planes and thousands of personnel fighting huge forest fires in Indonesia are struggling to contain them, authorities said Monday, while neighboring Malaysia stepped up efforts to combat toxic haze.

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WSB (center), a Singaporean national who has been detained for attempting to smuggle 40 vape cartridges containing the illicit drug etomidate, is presented alongside 14 other narcotics suspects on Sept. 17, 2026, at the Batam, Rempang and Galang (Barelang) Police headquarters in Batam, the Riau Islands.

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Batam nabs Singaporean over smuggling drug-filled vape cartridges

Workers of state-owned aluminum producer PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium (Inalum) prepare aluminum bars after molding at the factory. PT Inalum can produce 225,000 tonnes of aluminum bars every year.

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Prosecutor, defendants file appeals against Inalum graft verdicts

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Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister Nusron Wahid (left) hands over a copy of the government's response to the agrarian reform bill to House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Sufmi Dasco Ahmad (right) during a plenary session at the House on Sept. 22, 2026.

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Agrarian reform bill gets mixed reaction

Several evacuees sit in an evacuation shelter on Aug. 28 in Lape, Aesesa district, Nagekeo regency, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT).

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NTT earthquake death figures prompt calls for investigation

A deforested area to be converted into a sugar cane plantation by PT Murni Nusantara Abadi, directly threatening the adjacent customary forest protected by the Kwipalo Clan, scars the landscape on March 17, 2025, in Mandiri Jagebob, Merauke regency, South Papua.

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State-led food estate blamed for wildfire in Papua

Students rest Sept. 2 while receiving treatment for food poisoning at the regional general hospital after eating government-sponsored free school meals in Sidoarjo, East Java.

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Mass food poisoning strikes again as opposition to free meals program grows

Children play online games against each other on smartphones and tablets along an alley in Jakarta on March 26, 2026.

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Govt prepares fines in digital child safety rules

A Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF) crew walks towards a CH-47 Chinook helicopter ahead of Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin's visit to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's (JMSDF) ship JS Kunisaki at Kijing port in Mempawah regency, West Kalimantan on Sept. 15, 2026. In his visit, Sjafrie held a limited meeting with the Japanese officers on the joint waterbombing missions to extinguish forest and land fire in the province.

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Worsening haze delays Japan firefighting mission in West Kalimantan

The Virgo Transport 8 passenger ship that capsized on Sunday in the waters of Masalembu Islands in East Java is seen in this still image taken from video.

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Ferry accident revives Indonesia’s ‘Bermuda Triangle’ myth

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