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Police step up crackdown on subsidized fuel abuse in Sumatra amid shortage reports
Fuel shortages have been reported in several parts of Indonesia since the start of the year, triggering queues stretching for kilometers and disrupting residents' daily activities.
4 hours ago
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Forest loss, wildfires put orangutans at high extinction risk
Tapanuli orangutans in North Sumatra face increasing threats as their habitat gets fragmented by forest-encroaching business activities, while Bornean orangutans in Kalimantan are choked by haze-causing forest and peatland fires.
5 hours ago
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Four Indonesian firms receive ASEAN engineering awards
The awards are given to individuals, teams or institutions in Southeast Asia who have shown outstanding achievements in engineering with huge impacts for the public, industry and sustainability development in ASEAN.
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House presses on with asset forfeiture bill during recess
The House of Representatives presses ahead with the asset forfeiture bill during recess, as it seeks to pass the long-delayed bill into law by mid-December amid growing public pressure and concerns of transparency in its process.
8 hours ago
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Government weighs changing corruption law to boost investment climate
The government is reviewing possible revisions to the anticorruption law to improve legal certainty and the investment climate, with possible changes focusing on clarifying the definition of state financial losses and specifying corruption offences.
8 hours ago
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Malaysian, Singaporean nationals arrested in Bali for illegal lending operation
Each administrative team was assigned a monthly profit target of US$7,800, while individual workers earned between $1,200 and $1,600 a month.
10 hours ago
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Jakarta extends use of overflowing Bantar Gebang landfill
The Jakarta city administration has extended its use of the overcapacity Bantar Gebang landfill in neighboring Bekasi, West Java, for another five years, as the capital still struggles to contain its mounting waste crisis amid uncertainty over planned waste-to-energy (WtE) projects.
20 hours ago
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Central Kalimantan residents struggle as island burns
More than 300,000 people in seven provinces were laid low by respiratory tract infections from August to October, according to Indonesia's health ministry.
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Prabowo's allies distance themselves from flagship free meals program
Until now, Prabowo — who marks two years in office this week — has faced little or no pushback. There have been no dissenting votes on any bills the government has proposed, not even by Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), one party that is not formally part of the ruling bloc.
5 days ago
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Central Kalimantan residents struggle as island burns
More than 300,000 people in seven provinces were laid low by respiratory tract infections from August to October, according to Indonesia's health ministry.
1 day ago
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Students protest Central Kalimantan haze
The students, many wearing surgical masks, gathered under an eerily orange sky with severely reduced visibility and waved banners urging authorities to declare a national emergency to free up more aid.
3 days ago
