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Batam foils attempt to smuggle in 148 doctored vape pods from Malaysia

An Indonesian man traveling back from Malaysia has been detained as a suspect for allegedly attempting to smuggle 148 vape pods containing an anesthetic drug via Batam's ferry terminal.

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Batam gets highest 2026 minimum wage in Riau Islands

The provincial capital's minimum wage has been increased 7.38 percent to around Rp 5.36 million for 2026, while the greatest hike was around 9 percent for Bintan regency, where workers can expect a minimum wage of nearly Rp 4.6 million.

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Workers congregate on Dec. 24, 2025, at the pedestrian underpass on Jl. Kendal, Central Jakarta.

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Jakarta sets 2026’s minimum wage at Rp 5.7 million

Negotiations between workers, business owners and the city administration led to an agreement to set the alpha coefficient that determines the increase of minimum wage at 0.75, still within the threshold of between 0.5 and 0.9 set by the central government.

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Two excavators symbolically fell palm oil trees on Dec. 20, 2025, in Bagan Limau village, Ukui district, Pelalawan regency, Riau. The felling of palm oil trees marked the relocation of 228 families owning some 600 hectares of land out of the national park.

Task force starts to relocate settlers from Tesso Nilo National Park

The government tried to maintain biodiversity while ensuring the balance between environmental protection and public economic interests.

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Thirst in the deluge: A girl draws water from a storage tank on Dec. 15, in Babo, Aceh Tamiang, Aceh, following a flash flood.

Aceh evacuees face rising disease risks amid limited food, sanitation

Data from the Health Ministry shows that between Nov. 25 and Dec. 21, more than 11,160 displaced residents in Aceh suffered from upper respiratory tract infections.

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British adult film actress Tia Emma Billinger (right) attends a hearing on Dec. 12, 2025, at the Denpasar District Court in the Balinese capital. The court fined Billinger and a companion Rp 200,000 (US12) after it found the pair guilty of violating traffic regulations by using a vehicle outside its designated purpose to produce content.

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Indonesia lodges complaint over 'flag desecration' at London embassy

The Foreign Ministry has urged calm over an action by a recently deported British porn star at the Indonesian Embassy in London that was deemed to have desecrated the national flag.

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Former vice president Ma'ruf Amin waves to journalists on Oct. 20, 2024, accompanied by his wife Wury Estu Handayani, as he leaves the vice presidential palace compound on Jl. Medan Merdeka Selatan in Central Jakarta.

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Ma’ruf Amin steps down from MUI, PKB leadership roles

The former vice president's early resignation from leadership roles at the MUI and the PKB comes amid an internal leadership rift at NU, though any connection between these events is unknown.

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Indonesia lodges complaint over 'flag desecration' at London embassy

The Foreign Ministry has urged calm over an action by a recently deported British porn star at the Indonesian Embassy in London that was deemed to have desecrated the national flag.

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Ma’ruf Amin steps down from MUI, PKB leadership roles

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Asia-Pacific members nominate Indonesia to lead UN rights body

Asia-Pacific member states' nomination of Indonesia as the 2026 HRC president showed “strong support” for the country's capacity to lead in advancing global human rights, according to a statement from the Foreign Ministry.

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Former education, culture, research and technology minister Nadiem Makarim (second left) greets journalists upon entering the Attorney General's Office building in Jakarta on Sept. 4, 2025 for questioning as a witness in a corruption case pertaining to the procurement of Chromebook laptops for schools nationwide during his ministerial tenure.

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Nadiem’s corruption trial postponed once again

Demonstrators hold banners that read “The people are oppressed and also run over“ (left) and “Indonesia Cemas“ (Anxious Indonesia) right during a protest against police brutality in Surabaya, East Java on Aug. 30, 2025, following the death of an 'ojol' (online motorcycle transportation) driver who was run over by a police armored vehicle on Aug. 28 in Jakarta.

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Yearender: Civil movements take center stage in 2025

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NU regional leaders hint at snap leadership election

Workers pull the newly named and launched KRI Balaputradewa-322 out of the Orca graving dock on Dec. 19, 2025, at state-owned shipyard PT PAL Indonesia in Surabaya. KRI Balaputradewa is the first of two frigates using the Arrowhead 140 design from British shipyard Babcock International.

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KRI Balaputradewa launched, the first of two red and white frigates

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Jakarta braces for floods, landslides over holiday season

Pedestrians walk past activists taking part in a sit-in on Dec. 10, 2024, to raise awareness of gender-based violence in Jakarta

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Online abuse tops violence against women in Greater Jakarta

Officers from the National Police’s Forensic Laboratory (Puslabfor Bareskrim) inspect the Terra Drone Indonesia building damaged by fire on Dec. 9 in Jakarta.

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Police probe deadly Jakarta fire, name drone firm director suspect

Firefighters extinguish a blaze at Kramat Jati wholesale market, East Jakarta, on Dec. 15, 2025. At least 350 stalls were burned.

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Hundreds of stalls gutted in Kramat Jati market blaze

People walk past a burned motorcycle on Dec. 12, 2025, following unrest in the Kalibata area of South Jakarta. Nine kiosks, six motorcycles and one car were set on fire by a mob, allegedly triggered by the assault of two debt collectors on Jl. Raya Kalibata a day earlier.

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Six cops named suspects in fatal assault on debt collectors in Kalibata

Police officers stand guard on Dec. 11, 2025, near the free-meals delivery vehicle that struck students and a teacher at SDN Kalibaru 01 Pagi state elementary school in Cilincing, North Jakarta. The incident left 20 students and one teacher injured and requiring treatment at nearby hospitals.

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Free meals under renewed scrutiny after van injures 21 at Jakarta school

Line of cracks: A man walks with his fishing rod on Dec. 6, 2025, on top of a giant seawall built to prevent flooding, in Muara Baru, North Jakarta. Several sections of the seawall appear to have cracked, allowing seawater to overflow into residential areas.

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Leaking Jakarta seawall raises concern over rising sea level, maintenance

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A woman shops for red chili on Dec. 7, 2025, at a supermarket in Batam, the Riau Islands. The disaster that struck northern Sumatra at the end of November have caused a surge in prices for commodities like red chili, just as regional minimum wages are being determined nationwide.

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Batam gets highest 2026 minimum wage in Riau Islands

A man walks through the frame of a gutted house in Buntul Kemumu village on Dec. 13, 2025, following severe flooding and landslides in Bener Meriah regency, Aceh, one of three northern Sumatra provinces affected when Tropical Cyclone Senyar made landfall in the region on Nov. 26, along with North Sumatra and West Sumatra.

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Debris, lack of equipment slow search for missing Sumatra flood victims

A worker shows a meal package on Oct. 29, to be disbursed under the free nutritious meal program at a kitchen owned by Surabaya Police in Surabaya, East Java.

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BGN faces criticism over free meal program during school break

A crowd gathers on Sept. 14, 2025, to look at the remains of a bus in Lumbang district, Probolinggo regency, East Java. The bus was carrying 52 employees of Bina Sehat Jember Hospital and their families when it veered off Jl. Raya Bromo and struck a guardrail, killing eight and injuring at least 15 people.

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Bus crash on Central Java toll road kills 16, injures 18

Muara Batang Gadis Police sub-precinct office in Mandailing Natal regency, North Sumatra, is set ablaze on Dec. 20, 2025. The sub-precinct office was burned by angry local people after hearing the police had released a suspected drug dealer.

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Mob burns police office following release of alleged drug dealer

An N219 light transport aircraft is parked at PT Dirgantara Indonesia hangar in Bandung, West Java, on Sept. 27, 2024. This aircraft is the second type locally designed and produced by Indonesia after the N250 medium transport aircraft.

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