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The numbers of pilgrims are expected to rise further over the next two days as they continue to arrive from abroad ahead of the formal rituals that mark the beginning of the hajj on Monday.
7 hours agoChinese President Xi Jinping called for authorities to "spare no effort" in treating the injured and conducting search and rescue operations, while ordering a thorough investigation into the cause of the accident and strict accountability in accordance with the law. ...
8 hours agoThe commuter railway station, set to be opened by June, is expected to help improve accessibility to the 82,000-seat stadium by visitors from the city center and other regions, especially during major concerts or sporting events. ...
10 hours ago"The policies and practices of the Israeli government, including a further entrenchment of Israeli control, are undermining stability and prospects for a two-state solution," read a joint statement from several countries, including Britain, France, Germany and Australia.
12 hours agoThere are growing signs that major Asian importers are adapting to the new reality by striking direct arrangements with Gulf producers.
12 hours agoThe EU executive team including Sejourne will hold a special debate next Friday on how the 27-nation bloc should approach China to level the playing field.
13 hours agoAn ongoing judicial review before the Constitutional Court concerning the criminal investigation power of the Indonesian Maritime Security Agency (Bakamla) exposes a structural problem of thinking upon maritime law enforcement.
13 hours agoThe WHO raised its risk assessment for the outbreak in Congo to "very high" from "high", with the health body saying late detection, the absence of a vaccine or virus-specific therapeutics, widespread armed violence and high mobility among the population make the country vulnerable.
14 hours agoThe humor, sarcasm and barbed language utilized on stage represent a deliberate cultural attempt to construct a new form of state-approved common sense.
14 hours agoTrump said that Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Aaron Lukas, a former CIA officer and analyst who served on the National Security Council during Trump's first term, would become acting director.
14 hours agoIn today’s Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions (MICE) industry, organizers and planners are increasingly familiar with the concept of bleisure, a portmanteau of “business” and “leisure.”
1 day agoOver the past month, Saudi authorities have arrested dozens of Indonesians for various haj-related violations.
15 hours agoAlthough generative AI tools have improved rapidly and now outperform humans across many tasks, the market's current euphoria may not be justified. With AI firms increasingly resorting to debt financing, it is worth pausing to consider all the things that could go wrong.
15 hours agoBolivian President Rodrigo Paz came to power six months ago, in the midst of the country's worst economic crisis since the 1980s, marked by acute shortages of fuel and foreign currency and runaway inflation.
15 hours agoThe disagreements between Iran and the US remained "deep and extensive", according to the Iranian Foreign Ministry.
16 hours agoIndonesia's new export regulations on natural resources is a test of governance that draws upon a constitutional provision that mandates their use to ensure the prosperity of its citizens.
16 hours agoAhead of Indonesia’s first official Hyrox race in June, urban professionals and “gym rats” alike are reorganizing their routines around the fitness competition quickly gaining both hype and popularity.
16 hours agoMost nonformal teachers are paid far less than the regional minimum wage every month, despite government officials pledging to improve educators' welfare through various programs.
17 hours agoIndonesia has accepted a United States proposal to develop a maintenance hub for Hercules military aircraft, a plan that has been met with a wary response from lawmakers and analysts, who warn against arrangements that could blur sovereignty boundaries.
17 hours agoFrom an earlier age of Balinese tooth filing and Javanese courtly refinement to today’s SCBD culture of lip fillers and jawline contouring, the history of Indonesian status signaling reveals how power is continually rewritten onto the human body.
17 hours agoThe Financial Services Authority (OJK) has reported that outstanding loans from financial technology (fintech) lending services, locally known as pindar, reached Rp 101.03 trillion (US$6.1 billion) as of March, underscoring the rapid expansion of Indonesia’s online lending sector and the growing difficulty of containing its risks. Of that amount, the aggregate non-performing loan risk rate, measured by the industry’s TWP90 indicator, which tracks loans overdue by more than 90 days, stood at 4.52 percent in March, significantly higher than the 2.77 percent recorded in March 2025.
17 hours agoMusim Mas allegedly encroached forest land for their palm oil plantation with an overlapped right-to-use (HGU) certificate for 29,000 hectares plot of land.
18 hours agoMiddle-class Indonesians are among the groups most vulnerable to currency depreciation, because a larger share of their spending is impacted by changing exchange rates.
18 hours agoYoung Indonesian diaspora now question whether returning home to serve in public institutions is worth the risk if ambitious reforms can later be reframed as criminal acts.
18 hours agoAsia-Pacific trade envoys gathered in China are expected to discuss multilateral cooperation, trade imbalances and supply chain resilience in the face of global shocks, including the US-Israeli war on Iran.
1 day agoPolice have named a taxi driver a suspect in last month’s deadly rail accident in Bekasi, West Java, while transportation investigators have revealed new findings pointing to possible signaling and operational failures that caused the disaster.
1 day agoAccording to Bloomberg, notifications went out beginning in the early morning hours, with Singapore-based workers among the first to be informed.
1 day agoThe fast-warming tropical Pacific is pointing to a major event but a crucial weakening of trade winds -- capable of turbocharging or throttling the phenomenon -- has yet to materialise.
1 day agoE5 rollout will be concentrated in key high-consumption regions: East Java, Jakarta, West Java, Banten, Central Java and Yogyakarta.
1 day agoTrump said the move was based on his relationship with Poland's president Karol Nawrocki, a nationalist ally whom he said he was "proud to endorse" in elections that Nawrocki won last year.
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