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.`

Gibran’s G20 debut tests diplomacy, signals growing role

Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka made his global debut at the G20 Summit in South Africa earlier this week, stepping in for President Prabowo Subianto in a move seen as both a test of his diplomatic capabilities and a sign of Prabowo’s growing trust in his young deputy.

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Conviction of ex-executives of state ferry operator stir debate

The convictions of former top officials of state-owned ferry operator PT ASDP Indonesia Ferry and their subsequent pardons have prompted a public debate over whether bad business decisions that incur state losses should be subject to corruption investigations and trials.

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Lost for 20 years, human trafficking victim from Temanggung found in Malaysia

Identified as 47-year-old Seni, the migrant worker was tortured and never received salary during her employment.

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NU internal rift deepens as Yahya rejects dismissal

A power struggle within Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country’s most influential Islamic organization, has continued as chairman Yahya Cholil Staquf rejected a letter from the group’s council of senior clerics declaring his removal from office and he pressed on with his official duties.

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Two veterinarians perform check on Dona, a 45-year-old female elephant, which declared dead on Nov. 16, 2025, due to ilnesses, at the Way Kambas National Park in East Lampung, Lampung.

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Two more Sumatran Elephants die amid growing threats from deforestation

Burhanuddin Masyud, an expert in Ecology and Wildlife Management at Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), recently reported that around 1,585 hectares of Sumatran elephant habitat in the Seblat landscape, Bengkulu, one of the species’ remaining key habitats, was lost between January 2024 and October 2025.

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Air Force armorers load BNT-250 live bombs onto an F-16 AM from the 3rd Air Squadron at the Iswahjudi Air Force Base in Maospati, Magetan regency, East Java, on Nov. 18, 2025. The NATO-standard bomb is locally made by private arms maker PT Sari Bahari in cooperation with state-owned explosives maker PT Dahana.

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Air Force F-16 pilots successfully test locally made bomb

The locally made BNT-250 will allow Indonesia to reduce its reliance on United States-made Mk. 82 bombs.

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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

In a metropolis shaped by speed, pressure and long commutes, brief encounters with street cats have become small rituals of joy, lifted by online trends, shared care and a growing appetite for bite-sized escapes in the city.

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Diaspora skeptical of new lifetime visa

The diaspora community is skeptical of the newly launched policy granting former Indonesian citizens and their families stay permits for an unlimited period, calling it an investment-driven scheme that does not address the country’s brain drain phenomenon.

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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

Indonesian military (TNI) troops prepare at the National Monument (Monas) complex for deployment on Aug. 31, amid the widespread anti-government protests and rioting over issues such as extra pay for lawmakers, in Jakarta.

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TNI expansion plan raises fear of overreach

Troops attend a handover ceremony of defense ministry leadership from previous minister Prabowo Subianto to his successor Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin at the Defense Ministry office in Jakarta, in this file photo taken on Oct. 22, 2024.

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Pertamina welcomes military protection of refineries starting in December

Minister Sjafrie previously announced that the TNI’s new territorial development battalions (BTPs) would begin safeguarding national strategic industries, including Pertamina’s refineries, in December.

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