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KPK to investigate alleged illegal gold mining near Komodo Island

He expressed concern that the mining activities could cause environmental degradation and threaten Komodo dragons.

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KAI begins operation of dedicated train service for farmers and traders

The special service aims to ease mobility for local business owners, particularly in transporting agricultural products and merchandise.

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Senior NU clerics call for reconciliation

Senior clerics of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) have called for a reconciliation, known as islah, between its chairman Yahya Cholil Staquf and its supreme council as a way to solve the internal rift concerning Yahya’s chairmanship.

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Railway officials inspect the Argo Bromo Anggrek train serving the Surabaya Pasar Turi-Gambir route on Aug. 1, 2025, after the derailed train was removed by crane to the rail yard at Pegaden Baru Station in Subang, West Java.

Train hits car at unguarded crossing in East Java, killing four

A year-old infant is the only survivor of the family that was traveling in the passenger car, which was passing an unguarded crossing on Sunday when it was hit by a train headed to Surabaya.

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President Prabowo Subianto (center) inspects the operation of a public kitchen preparing food for flash flood survivors at an evacuation post in Pandan, Central Tapanuli, North Sumatra province, on December 1, 2025.

Flood-hit Sumatra faces hunger as Prabowo visits

President Prabowo Subianto visited flood- and landslide- hit areas in northern Sumatra on the sixth day after the disaster, promising to address urgent food and fuel shortages as thousands face dwindling supplies and the growing threat of hunger, while damaged roads continue to hamper relief efforts.

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POGI launches SPRIN movement to improve women’s health

Indonesian women still face four health problems of high maternal mortality ratio, varied quality continuity of health service, regional gaps and limited access to health service, and uneven literacy and public trust.

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Workers walk at the construction site of the Jakarta MRT Phase 2A CP202 project in Jakarta, on Thursday, Nov. 27. Construction of the Sawah Besar Station, which adopts a transit-oriented development (TOD) concept, has reached 60.2 percent and is targeted for completion and operation in 2029.

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Indonesia’s deepest multi-level MRT tunnel set to connect Kota Tua by 2029

Buried around 28 meters below Jakarta’s busiest corridors, the country’s deepest multi-level tunnel is expected to open by end of 2029 and restore much-needed connectivity to historical Kota Tua’s museums and colonial landmarks.

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Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) chairman Yahya Cholil Staquf (left) and secretary-general Saifullah Yusuf (right) leaves the room on July 28, 2024, after a press briefing on the result of the organization's central board plenary meeting in Jakarta.

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NU executive board sees shake-up amid rift

Takes the stage: Indonesia’s Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka (front, right) and German Finance Minister and Vice Chan- cellor Lars Klingbeil (center, right) arrive on Saturday, Nov. 22, to attend a G20 Leaders’ Summit plenary session at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Gibran’s G20 debut tests diplomacy, signals growing role

Then-state-owned ferry operator ASDP Indonesia Ferry CEO Ira Puspadewi speaks to the press on Feb. 6, 2020.

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Conviction of ex-executives of state ferry operator stir debate

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NU internal rift deepens as Yahya rejects dismissal

Former State-owned ferry operator PT ASDP Ferry Indonesia president director Ira Puspadewi (second right), planning and development director Harry Muhammad Adhi Caksono (third left) and commercial and service director Muhammad Yusuf Hadi (left) walk into the Jakarta Corruption Court on Nov. 20 ahead of their verdict hearing. The three defendants, who were indicted for corruption that caused Rp 1.25 trillion (US$75 million) in state losses in the acquisition of PT Jembatan Nusantara, were found guilty by the court.

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Presidential pardons put KPK’s credibility in question

Papuans who fled their villages due to fighting near the Grasberg gold and copper mine on March 9, 2020, gather at a makeshift shelter in Timika. An Indonesian soldier was killed on March 9 in a shootout with rebels in Papua, prompting more than a thousand civilians to flee fighting near the world's biggest gold mine.

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Papua conflict uproots thousands while state assistance lags

A father takes his child, who is hospitalized for diarrhea, for a walk around the children's ward of the Dr. Muhammad Zein Painan regional general hospital on May 9, 2024, in South Pesisir regency, West Sumatra.

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KPK probes into potential corruption in dozens of regional general hospitals

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Indonesia’s deepest multi-level MRT tunnel set to connect Kota Tua by 2029

A set of the Commuter Line urban train passes next to the under-construction Jatake Station in Tangerang regency, Banten on July 16, 2025.

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KAI reshuffles KCI leadership amid viral missing tumbler uproar

A woman washes dishes on Wednesday in a crowded neighborhood in the Tanah Tinggi subdistrict of Jakarta. The 2025 edition of World Urbanization Prospects issued by the United Nations on Nov. 18 names Jakarta and its surrounding areas the world's most populous city with 42 million people, followed by Dhaka, Bangladesh (37 million) and long-time title holder Tokyo, Japan (33 million).

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Greater Jakarta becomes world’s most populous megacity

Tasty treat: Food left by a passerby sits in front of a ginger cat, which has gone viral online, at the FX Sudirman shopping mall in Central Jakarta on Nov. 24, 2025.

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Paws for reflection: Jakartans tag strays as city mini-destinations

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Missing South Jakarta boy found dead after viral outcry

A woman removes boiled green mussels from their shells beside her daughter in a fishing community in North Jakarta on March 19, 2024.

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Shell piles engulf North Jakarta’s eroding coast

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Purbaya calls on journalists to step up scrutiny of government

Speaking at an event hosted by the Chief Editors Forum on Sunday, Purbaya said the press had grown “increasingly muted” in recent years, leaving poor public policies insufficiently challenged and weakening policy outcomes.

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Flood-hit Sumatra faces hunger as Prabowo visits

Tourists take photos on Nov. 5, of the beach with a glass elevator obstructing the view at Kelingking Beach on Nusa Penida Island in Klungkung regency, Bali. Bali Governor Wayan Koster has ordered the project's investor to stop and dismantle the construction and return the beach to its original state.

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Bali DPRD asks prosecutors to investigate glass lift in Nusa Penida

Personnel from the Dumai Search and Rescue (SAR) Unit pick up one of six survivors from liquified natural gas tanker MV LNG Saturn on Wednesday in the Malacca Strait off Dumai city, Riau. The sailors were onboard a cargo ship when the ship capsized because of bad weather off the coast of Belawan, North Sumatra.

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Four missing, seven survivors after two ships capsize in Malacca Strait

Batam Customs Office workers oversee the transfer of one of seven containers containing toxic and hazardous waste (B3 waste) to the Capricorn 97.210 Barge on July 29, 2019, at the Batu Ampar Container Port in Batam, Riau Islands.

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Batam's Batu Ampar congested as 759 e-waste containers disrupt cargo traffic

A mosque stands after flash floods on Sunday in Meureudu, Pidie Jaya district in Aceh.

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