Restricting schools from going on field trips may impact businesses in West Java and other regions often picked as destinations for such trips, according to a representative from the tour and travel agencies association.

Although the construction of Kampung Susun Bayam (KSB) was completed in 2022, the Jakarta administration, then led by acting Governor Heru Budi Hartono, prevented the displaced residents from moving in to the apartment complex, citing unresolved legal issues.

Public Works Minister Dody Hanggodo said at a press conference on Friday that he and the Jakarta administration would make a proposal to add Greater Jakarta’s flood control efforts to the 2025-2029 PSN list.

This year, the Transportation Ministry predicts that half of Indonesia’s population, or around 146 million people, will travel during the holiday, with West Java recording the highest mobility, according to a release earlier this week. 

Attorney General ST Burhanuddin has suggested that suspects in a corruption case pertaining to fuel imports at state energy giant Pertamina could receive the death penalty as they committed their crimes during COVID-19, which was a national disaster.

Drug dealers have immense financial power to buy off political leaders and law enforcement agencies to secure their illicit drug trafficking activities, warns BNN chief.

West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi said that tea had been cultivated in the Puncak area since the Dutch colonial era, not only for economic purposes but also as part of broader environmental conservation efforts. He emphasized that environmental sustainability must take precedence over short-term economic interests.

The Administrative and Bureaucratic Reforms Ministry issues a circular declaring a policy that allows flexible work from home or work from anywhere arrangements for civil servants ahead of the Nyepi and Idul Fitri holidays in late March.

Local media outlets in Central Java have reported that Hashim arrived at 8:45 a.m. and was personally greeted by Jokowi at the gate.

Businessman and graft suspect Paulus Tannos is facing an ongoing legal proceeding in Singapore in which he is challenging the Singaporean graft busters’ arrest warrant against him, which was based on a request made by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). 

The former trade minister's lawyers called the indictment “unclear, imprecise and incomplete”.

Fikri Jufri, one of Indonesia’s most celebrated journalists, died in Jakarta on Thursday at the age of 88.

A proposal to tweak the current format of the simultaneous presidential and legislative elections has taken center stage in a series of meetings at the House of Representatives over the past two weeks, with elections and democracy experts advocating for separate elections.

As the severe flooding that hit the Greater Jakarta area slowly receded, local authorities rushed to start the recovery process by cleaning up key infrastructure and residents’ houses, but the public demanded more tangible and long-term solutions to address the region’s perennial problem.

The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) has refuted rumors that it had found indications that State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Minister Erick Thohir and his brother Gariibaldi “Boy” Thohir were involved in corruption-ridden fuel imports at state-owned oil and gas giant Pertamina.

The current deliberations mark the second time in a year that the House has attempted to alter the TNI Law.

During a cabinet-wide meeting and iftar event, President Prabowo Subianto ordered ministers and state agency heads to expedite the rollout of some populist policies in the education and local economy sectors, ranging from Sekolah Rakyat to village cooperatives for rural economic development.

Recent large-scale flooding in Greater Jakarta, which has had a particularly dire effect in Bekasi, West Java, has drawn attention to the area’s poor urban planning and insufficient disaster mitigation.

Tri said he had decamped to the hotel in downtown Bekasi to make it easier for him to directly monitor the emergency situation, kompas.com reported.

The Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) has vowed to ensure that food packages disbursed under the free nutritious meal program are safe to be taken home, as authorities prepare for a different system for the initiative during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan.

Nine out of 18 candidates, including a former KPK chair, have been shortlisted for the 2025-2028 Press Council.

The ministry launched the campaign in conjunction with the fasting month of Ramadan, during which parents can spend more time with their children. 

The deluge that began on Monday hit Jakarta, home to around 11 million people, as well as the neighbouring satellite cities of Bogor, Bekasi and Tangerang.

President Prabowo Subianto’s administration is working on a new policy that aims to reduce overlaps between various ministries and state institutions on the implementation of the free nutritious meal program, while also looking to deal with potential impacts of the large-scale rollout.

Thousands of people have been displaced after days of heavy rain paralyzed Greater Jakarta, flooding homes and businesses, while newly elected officials and first responders scrambled to contain what was perceived as “one of the worst floods” in recent years.

The arrest of a loyal aide to Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri has raised questions about who will be her choice for the vacant position of secretary-general of the only de facto opposition party ahead of its congress.

The Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) has warned that the potential of vote buying could increase ahead of the upcoming revote ordered by the Constitutional Court for the regional head elections in dozens of regions.