British adult film actress Tia Emma Billinger (right) attends a hearing on Dec. 12, 2025, at the Denpasar District Court in the Balinese capital. The court fined Billinger and a companion Rp 200,000 (US12) after it found the pair guilty of violating traffic regulations by using a vehicle outside its designated purpose to produce content.`

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Delegates attend the opening day of the 50th regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on June 13, 2022, in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Asia-Pacific members nominate Indonesia to lead UN rights body

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Police step up security ahead of Christmas, New Year

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Nadiem’s corruption trial postponed once again

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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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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

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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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BGN faces criticism over free meal program during school break

A crowd gathers on Sept. 14, 2025, to look at the remains of a bus in Lumbang district, Probolinggo regency, East Java. The bus was carrying 52 employees of Bina Sehat Jember Hospital and their families when it veered off Jl. Raya Bromo and struck a guardrail, killing eight and injuring at least 15 people.

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

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

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

A passenger of a minibus that crashes in Nagreg, West Java, on Monday, sits on the side of the street. The minibus loses balance and rolls over after braking hard from a very high speed, according to the police.

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Bus crash kills 16 in Central Java

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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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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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