The United States on Friday lifted an hours-long ground stop at the nation's airports, with top officials explaining that the disruption was due to old equipment and not a cyberattack or sweeping Microsoft outage.

The political fallout from the Nvidia spy scandal spread to President Donald Trump's cabinet on Friday, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly blamed the Commerce Department for failing to blacklist a Singapore company suspected of funneling powerful AI chips to China.

Police said both suspects were homemakers who had allegedly arranged four cross-border marriages.  

Southeast Asian foreign ministers begin meetings in Manila on Saturday as the regional bloc seeks a coordinated response to surging energy costs, security tensions, and an approaching El Niño, challenges Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has said demand collective action.

Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will hold the first ever three-way meeting between the leaders of the United States, Russia and China at a summit in Shenzhen next week, the White House has said.

Upon arrival in Russia, however, the alleged victim, identified only as FSR, was not employed in the logistics field as initially promised but was instead recruited as a Russian soldier.

The coalition urged lawmakers to publish the latest draft of the asset forfeiture bill, accusing the House of “keeping the public in the dark” over the bill’s contents.

PT Pupuk Indonesia (Persero) unveiled on Nov. 9 its vision to expand the national ammonia ecosystem, a key component of the global clean energy transition, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31) in Antalya, Türkiye.

The nationwide stop left tens of thousands of passengers in limbo, with some pulled off planes moments before departure by airline staff who appeared in the dark about unfolding events.

The global cybersecurity breach at Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, has renewed scrutiny of the security risks facing digital asset platforms, particularly in Indonesia given Binance's position as a majority shareholder in local exchange Tokocrypto. Shortly before the Binance breach, Tokocrypto experienced a separate security incident in which fraudulent notifications were distributed through a third-party service connected to its application, exposing users to potential phishing attempts and raising questions about the operational safeguards protecting Indonesia's cryptocurrency market.

Once it receives House of Representatives approval, the Jakarta administration would proceed with the pillars' dismantling and subsequent redevelopment of the area.

Coalition party members, including National Mandate Party (PAN), Democratic Party, Golkar Party and National Awakening Party (PKB), have announced that they would leave the selection of Gibran’s successor to Prabowo.

By taxing sanitary pads, books and micro entrepreneurs while letting corporate tax evasion slide, the government is essentially forcing ordinary citizens to subsidize state revenue at the expense of their basic dignity.

The flooding has damaged dozens of homes, public buildings and agricultural areas, as well as infrastructure built in the aftermath of last year's devastating Sumatra floods.

The celebration comes as the island’s investment reaches Rp 59.73 trillion in the first nine months of 2026, representing 85.33 percent of its annual target.

Indonesia’s e-commerce market continues to expand despite economic and regulatory headwinds as platforms compete for increasingly price-conscious consumers while businesses look to artificial intelligence and digital finance for further growth.

President Prabowo Subianto will travel to the Philippines for the 49th ASEAN Summit, with Indonesia likely to face renewed pressure over forest fires and transboundary haze that have affected the region in recent months.

Gibran's resignation this week, which analysts say could widen the gulf between President Prabowo Subianto and former President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, followed a month of increasing political pressure from lawmakers after Supreme Court ruled that he had inadequate education credentials to run for the job.

The higher blend has raised concern among palm oil industry players that increased domestic consumption could squeeze feedstock supplies and weigh on exports.  

An unseemly political row over tax policy has raised the spectre of snap elections in the European Union's fifth-largest economy and weakened the centrist Jetten, the country's youngest-ever prime minister.  

Finance Minister Suahasil Nazara said the program served 58.2 million recipients as of the end of October through 27,485 kitchens across Indonesia.

The government has reaffirmed its intention not cut fuel subsidies despite surging global oil prices, banking on strong revenue growth to get the 2026 state budget safely to the finish line.

While a very strong El Niño was the dominant factor in determining the extremely low levels of rainfall across Indonesia from July, human-induced climate change contributed around 1.6 degrees Celsius of additional heat during the fire season, said a report by climate research group World Weather Attribution.

The neighboring countries plan stronger data-sharing and joint measures to tackle corporate tax compliance issues.

On Thursday, the 39-year-old's term in office ended after just two years as a scandal over his high school diploma proved to be the last nail in his political coffin.

The outage hit government agencies in Australia, Japan and the United States, as well as companies including OpenAI and Anthropic. It is the second disruption to Microsoft's 365 services this year, raising concerns that repeated failures could push corporate clients to question Microsoft's reliability.

The suspects were arrested from two different cases in Deli Serdang and Asahan regencies, including an employee at Tanjung Balai penitentiary.