The Central Java governor has said the province is tackling the challenge of locating 5-10 hectares of land for each school, as stipulated in a Social Affairs Ministry regulation on the government's Sekolah Rakyat initiative.

A study conducted by the Indonesia Ocean Justice Initiative (IOJI) has found conflicting laws governing land ownership in coastal areas.

Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) prosecutors allege Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) secretary-general Hasto Kristiyanto was behind the bribery of a General Elections Commission (KPU) member and helped a fellow party member to evade the law.

The government is expecting a significant drop in the number of people partaking in the Idul Fitri tradition of mudik (exodus) this year as many Indonesians endure a tougher financial situation amid President Prabowo Subianto’s sweeping austerity measures.

Lamongan Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Bobby A. Condroputra said the tanker suffered four separate explosions during the incident, with the fire quickly spreading to the tugboat.

President Prabowo Subianto’s plan to build 70,000 village cooperatives could disrupt conventional banks and risk financial mismanagement.

President Prabowo Subianto held a four-hour discussion on Thursday with hundreds of leaders of public and private universities at the Presidential Palace in Central Jakarta.

The family of Wage Rudolf Soepratman, the composer of the national anthem “Indonesia Raya”, have lamented the neglected condition of the national hero’s violin, kept at the Youth Pledge Museum on Jl. Kramat Raya in Central Jakarta.

The government stopped cross-border carbon trade in late 2021, wanting to prioritise meeting its own carbon reduction targets as it sets up broad rules on carbon trading. 

The dry season will start in most areas in April and is expected to reach its peak in June up until August, the agency's climatology deputy Ardhasena Sopaheluwakan told reporters in a briefing. 

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) alleges that former Bank BJB president director Yuddy Renaldi and former bank corporate secretary Widi Hartono rigged the tender for the bank's advertisement project procurement as a way to give kickbacks to six advertising agencies.

The House Deputy Speaker has dismissed a growing rumor that the finance minister plans to resign, saying he had confirmed with the President that this was not the case.

An internal investigation previously found that Bahlil violated several of the university’s academic standards, such as using data without permission from the sources and concluding the program in less than four semesters as required.

Police report that the five-month-long conflict has claimed a total of nine lives and left around 420 people injured. Additionally, at least 179 buildings and 28 vehicles have been set on fire by both groups.

Every party, ranging from the government to the private sector, should contribute to pushing for gender equality in Indonesia, as the country has experienced a lack of progress in creating fairness for all genders in recent years.

Amnesty pointed out that the ongoing violence is fueled by a culture of impunity within the police force, and that without real accountability from police leadership, efforts to curb the violence will be futile.

Mashudi revealed that the conditions at the Kutacane correctional facility were dire, with overcrowding pushing the prison to operate at 300 percent capacity. Designed to hold just 85 inmates, the facility was home to nearly 370 before the jailbreak.

The Indonesian Ombudsman said, only 207 out of a total of 602 government agencies have requested additional time for civil servant recruitment, meaning that there was no reason for the postponement in the remaining 395 agencies.

The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the only de facto opposition party, is gearing up ahead of the corruption trial of secretary-general Hasto Kristiyanto scheduled for Friday.

Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama answered a summons by the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) on Thursday as a witness in the fuel import corruption case at state-owned oil and gas giant Pertamina, of which he was the president commissioner for five years.

New Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung has dropped his plan to provide free school breakfasts across the capital city following a meeting with the National Nutrition Agency (BGN), which is in charge of the ongoing nationwide free nutritious meals program.

The government is planning to roll out around 50 "community schools" across the nation this year in an interministerial initiative that targets students from low-income families across the archipelago.

His comments come as President Prabowo Subianto’s five-month-old government faced a second round of widespread public demonstrations in as many months, amid efforts to expand the scope of military involvement in civilian life.

The Bali governor says TMD will resume its operation next month, after the provincial administration and three of its eight regencies struck an agreement to share the local bus service's operating costs.

According to authorities, Fajar allegedly recorded the assault and uploaded the video to an Australian pornographic website, which ultimately caught the attention of local authorities.

He noted that some of the orangutans he encountered appeared skinny, with their fur thinning because of malnutrition. Other primates, he added, have adapted to the food scarcity by begging humans for food.

The Indonesian government remains optimistic about securing the return of businessman and graft suspect Paulus Tannos, after Singapore granted the request, despite the fugitive's decision to contest the extradition.