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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. — 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

Charles argued that a temporary suspension of the free meal program would enable the government to reallocate its budget to more pressing priorities, such as disaster relief for flood victims in Sumatra and nutrition improvement initiatives in regions facing severe stunting.

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

A fatal bus crash in Semarang killed 16 passengers on Monday as millions of people started departing for their year-end holidays, renewing concerns about the safety of commercial bus services.

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Swiss court admits North Jakarta islanders climate case against Holcim

Four residents of the low-lying island of Pari, which has been repeatedly flooded as warmer temperatures push up sea levels, submitted a legal complaint in January 2023 to the cantonal court in Zug, Switzerland.

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British adult content creator Tia Billinger, known as “Bonnie Blue“, arrives at Denpasar District Court for her trial in Denpasar, Bali on Dec. 12, 2025. A controversial British adult film star faces deportation from Bali for violating immigration laws after she was arrested on suspicion of making pornographic online content, police said on Dec. 11.

Indonesia bans British porn star Bonnie Blue for 10 years

The 26-year-old, whose real name is Tia Billinger, was deported this month after police raided a studio in Badung, a popular tourist district near provincial capital of Denpasar.

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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

Local people, dominated by women, had detained an alleged drug dealer on Friday while conducting a raid on locations believed to be the center of drug activities in the village.

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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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Bakamla aims to triple air patrols in 2026

Bakamla does not yet have an aircraft in its fleet and plans to procure the N219 maritime surveillance aircraft and Wulung unmanned aerial vehicle from state-owned aircraft maker PT Dirgantara Indonesia.

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Systemic breakdown?: An employee looks for salvageable items on Nov. 4, in a collapsed classroom at SMKN 1 Gunung Putri in Bogor regency, West Java, the day after heavy rain and strong winds damaged five buildings and injured 42 students at the vocational senior high school.

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Yearender: Student safety in spotlight in 2025

From a boarding school collapse that killed more than 60 students to numerous fatal bullying incidents, 2025 exposed deep weaknesses in Indonesia’s ability to guarantee student safety.

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NU regional leaders hint at snap leadership election

Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) regional leaders have suggested a snap leadership election if reconciliation attempts fail to decide on the group’s leadership and resolve the contested chairmanship of Yahya Cholil Staquf.

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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

A police officer stands guard next to a stack of rupiah banknotes at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) headquarters on Nov. 20 in Jakarta. The money represents the Rp 883 billion (US$5 million) of state losses recovered from a corruption case pertaining to the fund management at state-owned insurer PT Taspen.

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KPK nabs dozens in multiple antigraft raids

A local poll administrator (KPPS) shows a ballot to witnesses on Dec. 5, 2024, during the vote tabulation of the revote for the Central Sulawesi gubernatorial election in Palu.

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Pro-government parties open to scrapping direct regional elections

Justice seekers: Activists display posters during the pretrial ruling on Oct. 27, 2025, for Lokataru Foundation executive director Delpedro Marhaen, at the South Jakarta District Court. Judge Sulistiyanto Rochmad Budiharto rejected Delpedro’s motion challenging his status as a suspect for alleged incitement during the protests in late August.

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Prosecutors indict four activists for inciting August unrest

President Prabowo Subianto (left) and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka (second left) listens to their ministers' explanation during a cabinet meeting at the State Palace in Jakarta on Dec. 15, 2025.

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Palm oil expansion in Papua raises eyebrow

Activists and university students hold a peaceful protest on Dec. 16 in Banda Aceh, Aceh, protesting the government's handling of impacts of cyclone-induced floods and landslides that hit Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra that have claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people.

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Regions ask for more state funds for disaster recovery

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A man holds an umbrella under overcast skies near the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle in Central Jakarta, on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. Jakarta is stepping up disaster mitigation, with heavy rains and strong winds forecast during the year-end holidays.

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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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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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Bus crash kills 16 in Central Java

The bus, which was headed from Jakarta to Yogyakarta, was travelling at a "fairly high" speed when it reached a turn at a highway interchange in Krapyak, Semarang, local search and rescue agency head Budiono said in a statement.

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Officials and cultural figures from Riau Islands attend a ceremony to launch the artificial intelligence-based Pantunesia app Dec. 17, 2025, at the Dekranasda building in Tanjungpinang. AI technology in the app functions as an assessor to ensure a pantun created is in accordance with the structure, meaning and philosophy of Malay cultural heritage.

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Riau Islands launches AI-based Pantunesia to strengthen Malay culture conservation

Flooded and forgotten: A person puts a white flag in front of his damaged house on Dec. 17, 2025, following severe flooding in Jambak village, Pante Ceureumen district, West Aceh, Aceh. The white flags were raised by residents of the village to call on the government to immediately declare the devastation in Sumatra a national disaster, which will allow for international assistance to enter and help accelerate recovery efforts.

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Discontent grows in Aceh over flood response

The Indonesian Maritime Security Agency (Bakamla) director of maritime air operations Cdre. Bambang Somantri (left) inspects disaster relief aid on Dec. 18 carried by KN Pulau Dana-323 patrol boat in Batam, Riau Islands. Bakamla has deployed two patrol vessels carrying a total of 160 tonnes of aid for natural disaster victims in Aceh.

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Bakamla deploys patrol vessels to distribute disaster relief to Aceh

An employee checks aluminum bars on Nov. 1, 2019, at a factory of PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium (Inalum) in Batu Bara, North Sumatra.

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N. Sumatra prosecutor detains two Inalum execs for alleged graft

Busted: The Surabaya Police display narcotics and drugs, as well as drug suspects, during a press conference on the progress of the 2018 Semeru anti-drug operation at the Surabaya Police headquarters in Surabaya, East Java, on April 26.

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Riau court sentences drug courier to death for smuggling meth from Malaysia

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Systemic breakdown?: An employee looks for salvageable items on Nov. 4, in a collapsed classroom at SMKN 1 Gunung Putri in Bogor regency, West Java, the day after heavy rain and strong winds damaged five buildings and injured 42 students at the vocational senior high school.

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Yearender: Student safety in spotlight in 2025

Holiday high: Passengers wait for the arrival of a train on Dec. 21, 2025, at the Tawang Station in Semarang, Central Java. State railway operator KAI’s Semarang Operational Area 4 is operating 31 regular train services and three additional trains with a total capacity of 321,442 seats, covering departures to Surabaya, Jakarta and Surakarta during the Christmas and New Year holiday travel period.

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Extreme weather looms as millions head into year-end travel season

Standing proud: Piles of uprooted and felled trees swept down by a flash flood surround Darul Mukhlisin Islamic boarding school and the mosque attached to the school in Aceh Tamiang, Aceh, on Dec. 14, 2025..

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Yearender: Climate extremes expose Indonesia’s disaster vulnerabilities

A man sits next to a giant Rafflesia tuan-mudae, a fleshy red flower with white blister-like spots on its enormous petals and measuring 111 centimeters in diameter, at the Maninjau nature preserve in Agam, West Sumatra, on Jan 2, 2020.

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‘Rafflesia’ or ‘padma’? Debate renewed over flower renaming

Muslims gather around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine located in the Great Mosque of Mecca, to pray on June 1, 2025, during the annual haj to the holy city in Saudi Arabia.

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Govt finalizes land acquisition for haj village in Mecca

A street musician group performs during an audition for the Street Busker Music Festival at Lapangan Banteng in Jakarta on Nov. 29, 2025.

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Musicians welcome court ruling on royalty payments

Officers watch as a suspected bootlegger (squatting) demonstrates how to produce ‘oplosan’ (moonshine) on Feb. 10, 2016, at a police station in Sleman regency, Yogyakarta.

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