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Politics

Prabowo says Indonesia to build up defense capabilities with new aircrafts

Jakarta signed an $8.1 billion deal in 2022 under then-defense minister Prabowo to purchase 42 French-made Rafale fighters.

34 minutes ago
Companies premium

INA fills executive posts after months-long vacancies

According to a Bloomberg report on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources, the INA has appointed investment banker Oki Ramadhana as its new chief executive officer. ...

53 minutes ago
Middle East and Africa premium

Indonesia presses ahead with UNIFIL deployment despite safety concerns

The Foreign Ministry confirmed that 744 Indonesian Military (TNI) personnel are scheduled to depart for the conflict-hit region on May 22 as part of the regular rotation of Indonesian peacekeepers stationed in southern Lebanon.  ...

54 minutes ago

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Americas

In Tierra del Fuego, a hunt for the rodent carrier of hantavirus

For several days, biologists from Buenos Aires will set traps at various locations on the southern island of Tierra del Fuego to analyze whether the captured rodents carry the Andes strain of the virus, the only one known to spread between people.

1 hour ago
Economy

China's economy loses steam at start of Q2

Better-than-expected exports and China's domestic fuel-pricing controls have helped weather the energy shock, but higher input costs threaten to squeeze already weak factory margins and further dampen consumer spending if the conflict drags on.

2 hours ago
Academia premium

What we don’t measure, we waste

When waste is not measured, it does not appear in performance metrics; when it does not appear in metrics, it is rarely prioritized.

3 hours ago
Health

WHO keeps evaluation of hantavirus as 'low risk'

The MV Hondius is expected to dock in the Dutch port of Rotterdam between 10:00 am (0800 GMT) and midday on Monday, according to officials, before disembarking the 27 remaining people on board: 25 crew and two medical staff.

3 hours ago
Archipelago premium

N. Sumatra running out of measles vaccines amid increasing cases

The province recorded 748 cases as of April 30, with 51 cases having tested positive after laboratory tests, compared to March 5 data with only 387 cases.

4 hours ago
Markets premium

IDX Composite index falls further at open

The Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) Composite index plunged as the market opened on Monday, extending its downward trend following the MSCI index rebalancing announced last week.

4 hours ago
Academia premium

Why Indonesia should treat its museums like infrastructure

Using the repatriation of Java Man as a springboard, it is time for Indonesia to develop a strong museum culture, not only to celebrate its vast historical and archaeological wealth but also to wield it as a soft power to elevate its economic, educational and geopolitical value and narrative influence.

4 hours ago
Entertainment premium

Island girls No Na join global rise of Southeast Asian music

A year after debuting with an American record label, the Indonesian girl group is riding a Southeast Asian wave that is pushing the region’s music onto the global stage.

4 hours ago
Europe

WHO keeps evaluation of hantavirus as 'low risk'

"The public health risk has been reassessed with the most current information available, and the global risk remains low," said a WHO statement.

5 hours ago
Archipelago premium

BP Batam reveals reason for canceled reexport of US-origin waste

Inspection found that there was less than 5 percent of hazardous and toxic goods in one e-waste container.

5 hours ago
Asia & Pacific premium

Patient history key to hantavirus early detection

The hantavirus infection often causes symptoms that are also seen in other illnesses, which potentially make the disease to be misdiagnosed as other ‘milder’ diseases, health experts have said.

5 hours ago
Academia premium

The rules-based order: Between power and post-normality

As the long-standing rules-based order fragments under global uncertainties due to geopolitics, economics and technology, the world urgently needs a coherent, credible and collective framework for stability.

5 hours ago
Archipelago premium

Wife of N. Sumatra church fund embezzler named suspect in money laundering case

The two are suspected to have used some Rp 7 billion (US$397,660) from the total Rp 28 billion embezzled from the Catholic Church parish' credit union in Aek Nabara, Labuhanbatu regency.

6 hours ago
Academia premium

United States’ superpower suicide

Empires rise and fall, but to my knowledge no state has ever deliberately, and systematically, killed its own power — much less with such speed.

6 hours ago
Politics premium

Labor activist, national hero Marsinah honored in new memorial site

At the museum’s inauguration, President Prabowo Subianto said the site reflects the government’s commitment to labor movements, while calling Marsinah’s murder ‘a brutal act’ that should not happen in the country.

7 hours ago
Academia premium

The rupiah’s long decline and Indonesia’s structural imbalances

The rupiah's persistent depreciation is a structural consequence of over-reliance on volatile capital inflows to finance a chronic current account deficit, persistent saving–investment imbalances, lasting fiscal deficit and a narrow, commodity-dependent export base. 

7 hours ago
Society premium

Prabowo vows to fix problems in free meals program amid governance concerns

President Prabowo Subianto has pledged to address various problems surrounding his administration’s flagship free nutritious meal program, while defending the multibillion-rupiah initiative as essential for students and farmers nationwide amid mounting concerns over its governance.

8 hours ago
Opinion premium

Analysis: A house today, a lifetime of debt

Housing is shifting inexorably from a milestone to a mirage in Indonesia. With a national backlog of 15 million houses, housing affordability has turned into a crisis spanning income groups, pushing many families to rent rather than buy. The government’s proposed 40-year mortgage scheme might ease monthly payments but raises a harder question: Does extending debt across most of a person’s productive life solve the housing crisis or merely redefine what desperation looks like?

8 hours ago
Academia premium

Jakarta meets the deep state

The institutional reflexes that govern Jakarta were not built for a New York index provider that can erode a fifth of Indonesia's sovereign investor mandate overnight. 

8 hours ago
Archipelago premium

Prosecutor carries out 202 strokes of flogging for adulterer, 14 gamblers

With a total of 202 strokes of rattan cane, it was the largest accumulation of strokes in the regency.

9 hours ago
Archipelago premium

Indonesia reduced forest, land fires by 86%, minister claims at UN event

Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni pointed to strengthening prevention systems, integrated early warning, stricter law enforcement and community-based approaches at the site level as steps to decease forest fires.

9 hours ago
Economy premium

Weakening rupiah spurs Indonesians to eye property abroad

Signs of a flight to safer assets also emerge in the first quarter as rupiah weakness and heightened uncertainty prompt people to diversify wealth and seek protection from depreciation.

9 hours ago
Politics premium

Small political parties warn against last-minute elections law revision

Parties with no seats in the House of Representatives also opposed ideas to raise the legislative threshold and proposed instead to abolish or lower the minimum votes needed for a political party to win a seat in the legislature.

9 hours ago
Archipelago premium

Bali increases surveillance for hantavirus

Bali Health Agency gave an assurance that no case of suspected hantavirus had yet been found in Bali. However, surveillance and prevention measures have been strengthened after several suspected hantavirus cases were found in other regions in Indonesia.

9 hours ago
Editorial premium

What an anticlimax summit

There was plenty of pomp and pageantry, but when it came to substance, there was little for the rest of the world to cheer about.

9 hours ago
Economy premium

Prabowo downplays impact of rupiah fall on households

President Prabowo Subianto has downplayed the depreciation of the rupiah with statements economists say may send a dangerous signal to the market, potentially dealing a further blow to the currency.

15 hours ago
Economy premium

Local firms echo Chinese concerns over Indonesia’s business climate

Danang Girindrawardana, executive director of the Indonesian Textile Association (API), said that local business community had also conveyed similar complaints to the government but did not receive an adequate response.

23 hours ago

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Mon, May 18, 2026

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