Firefighters work on cointaining a wildfire in Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan, on October 13, 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 forest fires burned through nearly 2.9 million hectares

The burned area figure -- 18 times the size of London -- has increased nearly a million hectares since deforestation monitoring site Nusantara Atlas's last update in September.

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120 lawmakers sign petition that could lead to Gibran's impeachment

Gibran, the son of former president Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, has come under intense scrutiny following rulings last month by the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court saying that his education documents did not meet election requirements.

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Police detain dozens after night of protest violence in Yogyakarta

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Students from various universities in Yogyakarta stage a peaceful protest to voice their demands at the city's Kilometer Zero landmark on Nov. 10, 2026.

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UGM seeks students as police deny campus raid

Police have detained over a hundred people following a protest in Yogyakarta that turned violent on Tuesday night, prompting concerns over the whereabouts of students and allegations that officers pursued demonstrators into the campus of Gadjah Mada University (UGM).

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A suspected thief (left) is seen in this CCTV recording carrying a four-faced Buddha statue from Shan Fo Tang Miao temple in Batam, Riau Islands, on Oct. 11, 2026. Several temples and houses have recently lost ritual items made of brass.

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Police arrest four-faced Buddha statue thief, amid rampant ritual items thefts

Residents believe the thieves wanted to sell the Buddhist religious item made from brass to scrap dealers.

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President Prabowo Subianto speaks during a ceremony to award national hero titles posthumously to 19 figures at the State Palace in Jakarta on Nov. 10, 2026.

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Hoegeng, Ali Sadikin among 19 new national heroes

President Prabowo Subianto on Tuesday conferred national hero titles posthumously on 19 figures, including former police chief Hoegeng Iman Santoso, author Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana and former Jakarta governor Ali Sadikin.

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Coordinating Downstream and Energy Transition Minister Bahlil Lahadalia speaks to reporters in his office in Jakarta on Friday, Oct. 16, 2026.

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Golkar denies Bahlil’s role in wiretapping scandal

The party has demanded the statements be retracted or else it would proceed to pursue charges under the Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) Law and the Criminal Code (KUHP) concerning defamation and dissemination of false information.

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