The weather agency has sounded the alarm about extreme rainfall expected to hit Jakarta this week.

Press freedom in Indonesia has once again come under attack from the corridors of power, with the Agriculture Ministry becoming the latest to allegedly employ intimidation tactics in a dispute with a critical outlet that had already been mediated by the Press Council.

As of Friday, nearly 300 reports of vehicle breakdowns potentially connected to Pertalite had been recorded across at least seven regencies and cities in East Java, 99 percent of which involved motorcycles.

Thirteen of the victims were children aged between eight and 17 years old, Adj. Sr. Comr. Alfredo Agustinus Rumbiak, the police chief of the remote Nduga region, told Reuters. 

The purchase of military equipment has picked up since Prabowo became defense minister in 2019 and then president last year, with multiple deals struck for new fighter jets as well as submarines.

The Indonesian Air Force's first Airbus A400M heavy transport aircraft arrived at Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force Base in East Jakarta on Monday.

ProJo leader Budi Arie Setiadi has said he intends to join President Prabowo Subianto's Gerindra Party, in a move that cements one of former president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s biggest supporter groups with the Prabowo administration.

Activists and female lawmakers have lauded a ruling from the Constitutional Court that requires the House of Representatives to have at least 30 percent female representation across all of its internal bodies, in hopes the decision will help improve the gender balance in the legislative structure. 

Average transactions in online gambling sites among North Sumatra provincial administration employees is less than Rp 10 million (US$600).

If the government fully enforces the ban, the move may hurt the income of hundreds of sellers of imported used clothes across Jakarta and prevent customers from buying affordable attire, according to thrift sellers and customers at Senen Market.

Of seven factions in the Pati DPRD, only the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) agreed with the impeachment motion, with six others preferring to recommend a performance improvement plan.

Awarding the national hero title for former president Soeharto, who was known for his 32 years of authoritarian rule, will betray the spirit of the reform movement of 1998 and the fight for justice for many victims of his crimes, activists have asserted.

Nusantara was designed as a green city, with only a quarter of its 252,000-ha site planned for development and the remainder preserved as green space.

Witness Second Pvt. Richard Bulan sobbed when he recalled the brutal tortures inflicted on him and the late Second Pvt. Lucky Chepril Saputral Namo during a session against four defendants at the Kupang Military Court.

Since its launch in January, the government’s free meals program has been plagued by a series of food safety incidents, with more than 13,000 students reported to have suffered food poisoning as of earlier this month.

The Air Force sent 22 personnel, including pilots, loadmasters and technicians, to Seville, Spain, for a series of training courses to operate and maintain the A400M heavy transport aircraft.

A government-sanctioned task force has disposed of more than 550 tonnes of materials contaminated with Cesium-137 (Cs-137) from 22 irradiated factories, empty land and settlement areas around the Cikande industrial estate in Serang regency, Banten.

The Jakarta Police have arrested Fransiska Dwi Melani, director of concert promoter PT Melani Citra Permata (Mecima Pro), after naming her a suspect in a fraud and embezzlement case linked to a concert the firm held for South Korean girl group TWICE in Jakarta in 2023.

The Jakarta provincial administration’s plan to raise the fares for Transjakarta bus service has stirred discussions among passengers and experts alike, with some saying the move necessary to maintain the service and others fearing it would hurt their wallets.

Policies introduced during the first year of President Prabowo Subianto’s administration pay little regard to the protection of women or gender equality, observers have said, which raises concerns about the government’s commitment to upholding women’s rights.

President Prabowo Subianto said on Wednesday he does not consider himself an authoritarian leader and that he is open to criticism.

Last month, on Sept. 29, a three-story building at Al Khoziny School in Sidoarjo regency, also in East Java, collapsed while dozens of students were performing asar (afternoon prayers), killing 63 and injuring many others.

The case against Misrantoni began in the early hours of Nov. 15, 2024, when an unknown masked assailant attacked a roadside post set up by villagers to block coal trucks from a local mining company.

An audit in 2024 found that there were 1,037 employees in the North Sumatra provincial administration who were suspected of taking part in online gambling.

The first-year anesthesiology resident allegedly lured a woman into an unused room around 1 a.m. on March 18 under the pretense of conducting a blood type crossmatch test. He then reportedly administered the sedative Midazolam to the victim, causing her to lose consciousness.

The Rote Ndao Police in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) detained seven Chinese nationals on board a suspicious vessel that drifted into the waters off Ndana Island in Ndao regency on Sunday. Also detained were three Indonesian crew members from Southeast Sulawesi.

As lawmakers are revising the 2003 National Education System (Sisdiknas) Law, academics and education experts have called for stronger guarantees of a safe and tolerant learning environment.