Health practitioner Tifauzia “Tifa” Tyassuma (right) arrives for the opening hearing of her defamation trial at the East Jakarta District Court on July 2, 2026. Prosecutors read the indictment accusing her of defaming former president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo by alleging that his university diploma was not authentic.`

Jokowi diploma challenger faces defamation trial

Health practitioner Tifauzia “Tifa” Tyassuma faced her first court hearing on Thursday in a defamation case stemming from allegations that former president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo's university diploma was fake, while former youth and sports minister Roy Suryo continued separate pretrial proceedings over the same controversy.

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New underground concourse to expand MRT access

Commuters have welcomed plans for an extended underground concourse beneath the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle (Bundaran HI), hoping it will make getting around on foot more convenient by linking the MRT station directly to nearby offices, hotels and shopping malls.

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Tesso Nilo National Park loses 45-year-old guardian male elephant

Indro was a member of the Flying Squad team, which helped guard the national park area and prevent conflicts between humans and wild elephants.

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Muted voices: Riau Islands Deputy Governor Nyanyang Haris Pratamura (sixth right) and Jumaga Nadeak (center), chair of the Riau Islands committee for the Ecclesiastical Choir Festival (Pesparawi), pose with members of a local women's choir on June 16, 2026, during a send-off at a restaurant in Batam. The choir was unable to participate in the 14th national choral festival, which ran from June 18 to 28 in Manokwari, West Papua, because the travel agency it used reportedly did not procure tickets for a June 25 connecting flight from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Banten.

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Pesparawi committee reports travel fraud as Riau Islands choir left stranded

A provincial committee managing the Riau Islands' participation in a national choir festival has filed a police report alleging fraud by a travel agency after 63 chorists and officials were left stranded in Jakarta, unable to make the final leg of their trip to the event in Manokwari, West Papua.

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Controversial commissioner appointments revive patronage concerns at SOEs

The appointments of a personal assistant of Raffi Ahmad, President Prabowo Subianto’s special envoy, and a pro-government youth leader to commissioner posts at two state-linked companies have reignited debate over patronage politics.

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President Prabowo Subianto (center), accompanied by National Police chief Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo (right), conducts an inspection during a ceremony commemorating the 80th National Police Day on July 1 at a police training facility in Cikeas, Bogor, West Java.

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Prabowo lauds police amid concerns over stalled reforms

President Prabowo Subianto has praised the National Police and their chief for pushing reforms in policing and playing an extra role in food security, amid persistent criticism that institutional reforms have stalled.

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Firefighters work to extinguish a blaze at the Jatiwaringin landfill in Tangerang regency, Banten, on June 30, 2026.

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Massive fire breaks out in Tangerang’s Jatiwaringin landfill

National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) head Lt. Gen. Suharyanto said on Wednesday that the blaze continued to burn despite round-the-clock firefighting efforts and warned that it could spread further.

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New JIS station brings hope for smoother event access

Skyscrapers are seen from the observation deck of the National Monument (Monas), a 132-meter landmark commemorating Indonesia's independence, in Jakarta on June 7, 2026.

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Jakartans look for space to breathe in concrete city

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Massive fire breaks out in Tangerang’s Jatiwaringin landfill

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Ten remain in detention after violent anti-government protest in Surabaya

As tensions escalated, some demonstrators threw bottles, stones and firecrackers, while others dismantled a metal barricade on the eastern side of the Grahadi State Building and hurled it into the government compound, according to police.

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Police probe doctor's alleged suicide amid claims of intimidation by DPRD members

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Lone woman's 'drug raid' reveals lax enforcement in N. Sumatra

Participants in basic military training for prospective managers of the Red and White Cooperatives program chant slogans at the 1st Marine Infantry Brigade in Cilandak, Jakarta on June 25, 2026.

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Pressure mounts for probe into five deaths in military-run cooperative training

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CSOs demand civilian trial for soldier killing of resident in N. Sumatra

Pieces of evidence are confiscated by the police from a Portuguese woman who carried 50 .22 Long Rifle bullets in her backpack as shown in this composite picture released on June 20, 2026, by the I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport Police. The Portuguese woman was arrested at 11:28 p.m. local time on the same day when she was going to fly to Abu Dhabi.

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Portuguse woman nabbed for smuggling ammunition

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Rows of young oil palm trees are seen on April 28 on the border of Sebangau National Park area in Central Kalimantan. Around 2,000 hectares of forests in the national park and its buffer zone were cleared to make way for oil palm plantations in 2024, according to NGO Auriga Nusantara.

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Deforestation still haunts Indonesia’s national parks

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Forests, people sacrificed in Sebangau

How a national park in Central Kalimantan vanishes in plain sight

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Indonesian Military (TNI) soldiers hold harvested rice during a grand harvest event with TNI commander Gen. Agus Subiyanto on July 10, 2025, in Deli Serdang regency, North Sumatra. The harvesting event on a 80-hectare paddy field owned by the Bukit Barisan military command in the province produced 520 tonnes of rice to be used for the government's free nutritious meal program.

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Critics slam Prabowo’s praise for TNI, police role in food drive

An epaulette shark (Hemiscyllium freycineti) is captured in its coral habitat in Arborek Island in Raja Ampat regency, Southwest Papua in April 2026. The shark, which has developed an ability to "walk" on the seabed and land using an undulating crawling motion, relies on coral reefs as its nursery habitat.

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Tourism, climate puts Raja Ampat's ‘walking shark’ under pressure

A migrating wild goose spreads its wings on Oct. 29, 2025, in wetlands near Linum, eastern Germany. The eastern federal state of Brandenburg and other federal states, authorities have recorded the largest outbreak of bird flu in wild birds to date. The epidemic, which is unprecedented in its scale, mainly affects cranes, whose autumn migration is currently at its peak. A significant increase in deaths and rapid spread in Central Europe and along the migration route to Spain is therefore to be expected.

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Indonesia on alert after Australia bird flu detection

Deputy Immigration and Corrections Minister Silmy Karim (center) walks wearing a detainee vest on June 4 after questioning at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) headquarters in Jakarta.

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Graft probe offers hope for better immigration system, mixed-marriage families say

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Indonesia can offer experience in growth, environment: Senior UN official

Indonesia’s experience offers important lessons on the value of partnership, innovation and long-term investment, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific at the UN Development Program (UNDP) Kanni Wignaraja said.

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