Despite fewer crossings, Batam is experiencing a surge in Singaporean visitors, who are flocking to the island to stock up on groceries and everyday goods as prices back home continue to climb.

The suspect forged signatures on documents to apply for loans without knowledge or consent from victims who handed over their promotion decrees as collateral.

Civil groups and students staged a rally outside the Constitutional Court on Wednesday in solidarity with acid attack victim Andrie Yunus, as the top court hears cases challenging the Indonesian Military (TNI) Law.

Videos of the procured vehicles have recently circulated widely on social media, fueling public backlash and raising questions over the urgency of providing motorcycles to kitchen heads, as well as the effectiveness of the program’s large budget.

The measure aims to address widespread noncompliance with post-divorce financial obligations, which he said has left many former spouses and children without adequate support.

The Batam city administration aims to reduce the city budget burden in providing public services to nonresidents.

At a post-Ramadan gathering event in late March, Saiful Mujani said advising the administration of President Prabowo Subianto would likely be ineffective, suggesting ‘bringing him down’ as the only way to ‘save the nation’.

The assault on Andrie Yunus of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) was not a personal attack, but instead an attack on "young people who continue to fight for a just and humane Indonesia", activists said.

The governor has stressed transparency and honesty in all official matters, including responding to public complaints, and has called for an investigation into the incident by the Jakarta Inspectorate.

Journalist associations have condemned the Communications and Digital Ministry’s move to geographically restrict an Instagram post by online news outlet Magdalene about a recent acid attack involving the military, calling it illegal and a dangerous precedent for press freedom.

Promotional billboards for the horror film “Aku Harus Mati” (I Must Die) have drawn widespread criticism over concerns that they could encourage suicidal ideation, particularly among vulnerable groups such as children, amid rising mental health issues among the country’s youth.

The Indonesian Military (TNI) has foiled an attempt to smuggle food commodities from the Netherlands into Riau in an operation that has sparked concerns over potential military overreach into civilian affairs.

Acting on tips from the public, the Riau Islands Police have solved three separate cases of theft targeting municipal equipment, netting six suspects and two fences, with one suspect still at large, who face maximum sentences of between four and seven years if convicted.

The Communications and Digital Ministry’s newly implemented content rating system for video games has come in for criticism for its arbitrary age classification, prompting concerns among players and developers about the availability of games in Indonesia.

Amsal’s case attracted widespread public attention, with critics arguing that authorities were criminalizing the videographer over the pricing of his work. 

Floods and landslides have struck multiple regions across Indonesia following days of heavy rain, leaving at least one person dead and forcing hundreds to flee, as authorities warn of more extreme weather during the seasonal transition.

At least 72 children from four different schools in Duren Sawit, East Jakarta have shown symptoms of food poisoning after consuming school lunches prepared under the government's free meals program last week, prompting the shutdown of the participating kitchen due to failure to meet food safety standards.

The 6-meter trash pile near Kramat Jati market in East Jakarta was not the only one to be observed across the city, which has its waste management disrupted by the Idul Fitri holiday and the fatal landslide at Bantar Gebang landfill in Bekasi, West Java in early March.

Easter celebrations took place in Batam while pilgrims flocked to Larantuka in East Nusa Tenggara to participate in the Semana Santa procession, a 500-year-old tradition dating back to the era of Portuguese rule.

An environmental watchdog has found that over 430,000 hectares of forest areas were cut down last year, primarily for realizing President Prabowo Subianto’s food and energy self-sufficiency agenda.

Suspect Andi Hakim Febriansyah and his wife Camelia Rosa were arrested upon arrival from Malaysia by immigration officers.

The replacements are part of the fallout of the alleged extortion of foreign tourists at Batam Center International Ferry Terminal, which has gone viral in the past few months.

Peacekeeper Corp. Farizal Rhomadhon, 28, died when a projectile exploded on March 29 in southern Lebanon, where Israel and Hezbollah have been fighting since Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war.

The government’s temporary restriction on platforms operated by nonprofit organization Wikimedia Foundation has raised concerns among digital rights advocates, who warn that arbitrary controls risk undermining citizens’ access to free knowledge and freedom of expression.

Prosecutors charged Amsal Christy Sitepu for allegedly putting marked-up budgets on his proposal to make profile videos for 20 villages in Karo regency, North Sumatra, from 2020 to 2022. 

At least 12 people have made reports to the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) about the online abuse they received on social media and other online communication platforms and requested the commission’s protection.

At least one person was killed after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake in the Maluku Sea rocked North Sulawesi and North Maluku and triggered tsunami waves that reached up to 0.75 meters in height.