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Two women walk across the Garuda Perintis Bridge after its inauguration on Aug. 13 in Malang, East Java. The 1.2-meter bridge above the Brantas River was built by the Malang District Military Command and local communities to ease pedestrian and small vehicle mobility.
Two women walk across the Garuda Perintis Bridge after its inauguration on Aug. 13 in Malang, East Java. The 1.2-meter bridge above the Brantas River was built by the Malang District Military Command and local communities to ease pedestrian and small vehicle mobility.`
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Militarism concern raised after Prabowo inaugurates bridges built by TNI, police

President Prabowo Subianto inaugurated nearly 3,400 bridges built by the Indonesian Military (TNI) and National Police in villages across the nation amid a target to construct a total of 5,000 bridges by the end of 2026.

14 hours ago
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Five dead after magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Flores, governor says

Indonesian geophysics agency BMKG recorded the first quake at 4:58 a.m. (2158 GMT) at a depth of 15 kilometers, followed by several aftershocks.

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Police exhume body of top prosecutor’s housekeeper after mysterious death

News of Sutrimo’s death emerged shortly after the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) detained his employer, the former assistant attorney general for special crimes (Jampidsus) Febrie Adriansyah, over a money laundering case.

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Batam data center expansion threatens water, electricity supplies

Batam has attracted at least 16 new data centers in various stages, despite limited clean water and electricity infrastructure.

19 hours ago
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At least two dead in magnitude 7.7 quake in NTT

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Prabowo touts self-sufficiency amid global uncertainty

President Prabowo Subianto offered a triumphant assessment of his administration’s first two years on Friday, touting food self-sufficiency and flagship programs despite mounting public discontent and skepticism over whether their benefits have been widely felt.

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Three Sumatran elephants die in two weeks in Aceh, Riau

At least 12 Sumatran elephants have been reported dead in Indonesia since the start of the year, including seven in the wild and five in captivity.

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Prabowo invokes PDI-P’s Marhaenism ideology to court support for new mineral exchange

President Prabowo Subianto has invoked the economic philosophy of Marhaenism, associated with the quasi-opposition Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), as he seeks broad political support for his new plan to establish a mineral exchange.

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