A massive fire has burned the popular tourist destination of Sade to the ground in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), leaving immeasurable cultural and personal loss in its wake.

Indonesia’s labor market resembles a polished façade concealing deeper cracks. Official figures show headline unemployment falling, yet the recovery has not created enough quality jobs for the country’s growing educated workforce. Education has long been seen as the first step up the social ladder, opening the way to secure employment and a better life. Today, however, more than 1 million university graduates are unemployed, exposing a troubling reality: A degree no longer reliably opens the doors it once promised.

Norway will continue developing its oil and gas resources in the Barents Sea regardless of the European Union's support for a moratorium on Arctic hydrocarbon supplies, and no longer sees itself as Europe's "green battery", Energy Minister Terje Aasland told Reuters.

Infantino has shown no signs of walking away from the position he has held since 2016 and made it clear that he was banking on his appeal to the less well-off national associations to win reelection until 2031.

The Malaysian prime minister and the Brunei sultan aim to use “the ASEAN mechanism” in a bid to find a solution for the recurring problem of transboundary haze from Indonesian wildfires.

The cancelation follows US President Donald Trump's surprise order to scale back a separate annual joint military exercise that ended last Friday, citing the cost and Seoul's refusal to take part in the Iran war.

The results exposed a squeeze at the heart of the low-cost model: Fuel makes up a larger share of expenses than at full-service airlines, but price-sensitive passengers leave carriers less scope to lift fares without weakening demand.

The President visited Riau on Monday to oversee firefighting efforts as blazes rage amid persisting dry conditions, just a day after officiating a meeting on the fire response in Kalimantan.

Two recent studies by the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) have indicated that air pollution in the Greater Jakarta area  cannot be addressed by a single region or sector alone.

The escalating Russian strikes have pushed civilian deaths to their highest levels since the first months of Russia's 2022 invasion.

What started with the death of young woman in a traffic accident has escalated into a general protest about a lack of accountability for the powerful.

A thirty-year silence from nuclear testing was not an accident of history—it was a fragile choice that the world must urgently choose to keep.

A capable state must do more than deliver programs, it must ensure that all citizens can hold power accountable and participate as equals.

Bank Mandiri’s freezing of a protest coordinator’s account has drawn strong criticism from civil society groups, which have warned the move restricts civic freedoms and could erode public trust in the state-owned lender.

The puzzle of why the Trump administration is so concerned with a falling yen has historical parallels not to the 1930s or the 1980s, but to the 1960s, when US officials feared that a crisis elsewhere could spread to America. With US bond yields spiking, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is getting desperate.

Without detailing specific measures, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signaled Washington would target "fearful nations" that practice "appeasement" by engaging with Iran's economy and financial system.

The current global order will not reborn from the bottom-up, top-down or from the Global South, but it will come down to middle powers that have the most to lose from a decline of global governance and have the most power to actually change it, according to Munich Security Conference (MSC) CEO Benedikt Franke.

To turn a historic paper pact into real Indo-Pacific deterrence, Washington and Jakarta must move beyond symbolic drills to build a high-tech, gray-zone defense partnership that respects Indonesia’s strategic nonalignment.

Indonesia’s largest Islamic organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) is slated to hold a leadership contest to pick its next chair in its upcoming national congress (Muktamar) in Jombang, East Java in late August.

As urban air pollution continues to travel across Greater Jakarta, threatening public health and burdening the economy, authorities in the region are facing greater pressure to establish an integrated framework to tackle mounting borderless pollutants.

On Aug. 15 three prominent businessmen toured a site in Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan, reportedly to scout potential mining sites. They were tycoon Haji Isam, PT Bayan Resources owner Dato’ Low Tuck Kwong and defense entrepreneur Norman Joesoef. The meeting quickly sparked speculation that Haji Isam was interested in acquiring a 62 percent majority stake in Bayan Resources.

Great-power conflict won’t hit Southeast Asia with battleships first—it will arrive through hollowed-out commodity prices, flooded domestic markets and a battered rupiah.

KPK previously arrested 14 people on Thursday evening during a sting operation, with 12 arrested in Purwokerto and two others arrested in Jakarta. 

Police have named 72 suspects in their crackdown on deliberate land burning after President Prabowo Subianto over the weekend ordered a rapid response to land fires in Kalimantan and Sumatra.

Indonesians confront mounting economic hardship despite official assurances that all is well. Many are confused: the reassurances from officials do not match the reality of their daily lives.

The total affected area reached 1,121 hectares, with hot spots successfully controlled through ground sweeping and aerial water bombing using helicopters.

Combined investment from mainland China and Hong Kong reached US$11.5 billion in H1 2026, nearly three times the $4.1 billion recorded a year earlier.