Workers set a whiteboard in a classroom at a Sekolah Rakyat (community school) site in Medan, North Sumatra, on July 11, 2025. `

Dozens of homesick students leave North Sumatra community schools

Presidential chief of staff Dudung Abdurrahman said 30 students from Integrated Community School 1 in Serdang Bedagai regency returned to their homes because they were unable to settle in the boarding school.

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167 psychiatric patients evacuated as haze worsens in South Kalimantan

Authorities are preparing to move patients to an off-site facility if smoke from the wildfires around the hospital could not be brought under control.

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Respiratory problems climb past 170,000 cases in Indonesia

Blazes in Kalimantan, Sumatra and Papua have blanketed parts of the country, as well as neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore, sending air quality indices plummeting.

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Smoke billows from burning oil palm and areca palm plantations on Aug. 25 in East Tanjung Jabung regency, Jambi.

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RSPO integrity tested as wildfires hit orangutan habitat

Independent monitoring and analyses found thousands of land inside oil palm concessions operated by companies certified by the global certifier group have been burned, with some fires threatening habitats of local biodiversity such as the Bornean orangutan.

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Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka gestures before President Prabowo Subianto delivers his annual State of the Nation address during the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) plenary meeting on Aug. 15, 2025, at the Senayan Legislative Complex in Jakarta ahead of the country's 80th Independence Day.

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Gibran faces fresh challenge over eligibility as VP

The Constitutional Court began hearing this week a petition challenging Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka’s educational qualifications when he ran for office in 2024, with petitioners asking the court to disqualify him two years after the election.

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A journalist takes photo of a picture showing Surakman, a crewmember of the boat Arupadhatu 1 that went missing while carrying journalists covering the eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau in the Sunda Strait, during a press briefing on Sept. 23 at the Banten Police headquarters in Serang, Banten. The police identified a body found on Enggano Island, Bengkulu, as Surakman following DNA identification.

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Crew member from missing Anak Krakatau boat identified

The crew member’s body from the missing boat of journalists covering the eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau on Sept. 7 was initially found on Enggano Island in Bengkulu, around 350 kilometers west of the volcano in the Sunda Strait.

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People walk near DayOne data center at Nongsa Digital Park (NDP) in Batam city, Riau Islands, on July 20. Batam has attracted at least 16 new data centers in various stages, despite limited utility infrastrucutre of clean water and electricity.

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Batam residents protest data centers amid water crisis

Residential areas have their clean water supplies cutoff completely while data centers in Nongsa Special Economic Zone enjoy sufficient water.

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Suspended Pati Regent Sudewo greets supporters after attending the opening trial in his corruption case on June 15 at the Corruption Court in Semarang, Central Java. Prosecutors from the Corruption Eradication Commission accused Sudewo of accepting bribes and gratuities totaling 3.8 billion rupiah (about $233,000) related to railway projects at the Transportation Ministry while serving as a member of parliament from 2021 to 2023, and of allegedly extorting 2.6 billion rupiah (about $160,000) in the recruitment of village officials in Pati regency from 2025 to 2026 while serving as regent.

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Prosecutors demand 8.5-year prison sentence for suspended Pati regent Sudewo

Sudewo is accused of extorting officials appointed to various positions in 401 village administrations across 21 districts in Pati, Central Java. He is also charged with accepting bribes linked to railway track projects at the Transportation Ministry’s Railway Directorate General in 2022, when he was serving as a member of the House of Representatives (DPR).

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