The president said he had received extensive reports on the scale of agricultural destruction and stressed that affected farmers would not be left to bear the losses alone.

"We urge both sides to exercise maximum restraint, maintain open channels of communication and make full use of the mechanisms in place," Anwar, the chair of the regional bloc ASEAN, said in a post on X. 

From the latest album release listening party to surprise music video drops, the economic value of the global creative industry has reached US$2.3 trillion annually, making up 3.1 percent of the global GDP.

China's exports topped forecasts in November, driven by a surge in shipments to non-US markets as manufacturers deepen trade ties with the rest of the world in light of President Donald Trump's prohibitively high tariffs.

The death toll from the cyclone-induced floods and landslides reached 950 as of Monday, with 274 people still missing, according to official data. The storms also killed about 200 people in southern Thailand and Malaysia.  

Islamic home financing in Malaysia needs urgent form, as in its current iteration, it is failing too many buyers when projects stall or collapse.

MAY 28, 2025: Cambodia's defence ministry says one of its soldiers is killed after a brief exchange of gunfire with Thai soldiers at a disputed border area, the first such deadly clash since 2011.

ASF may not infect humans, yet its impact runs deep.

Setting up a national council for financial health, as the President has announced, is the first step in improving financial well-being for all Indonesians, whose experiences will also inform efforts toward ensuring financial health as a global challenge.

French President Emmanuel Macron said he had threatened Beijing with tariffs during his state visit to China if there was no action taken to reduce the country's ever-widening trade deficit with the European Union.

Reducing material consumption, especially in developed countries, remains the most effective way to protect vital ecosystems and prevent the long-term harms that extraction inevitably causes.

President Prabowo Subianto has promised  bigger cash prizes for athletes who win golds at the 2025 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Thailand, as Indonesia aims to finish among the top three.

Home to 4.8 billion people or 60 percent of the world’s population, Asia accounts for 50 percent of the global cancer incidence.

The country still has time to choose between pursuing the current extractive course to benefit the few or changing course toward equitable development to benefit the many, but the clock is ticking. 

Regent Mirwan said he had checked that all victims had been properly handled and ensured that all agencies were working properly before he performed umrah pilgrimage.

One in four women in Indonesia has experienced sexual violence in their lifetime, with at least 30 percent of reported cases committed by intimate partners according to a 2024 survey conducted by the Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Ministry. 

The President must declare the Sumatra floods and landslides a national disaster so the state can mobilize its vast emergency response apparatus and afterward, learn crucial lessons from this incident for future policies and actions.

Ahead of a planned revision to election rules, President Prabowo Subianto has once again raised the idea of scrapping direct regional head elections to cut costs, despite persistent opposition from pro-democracy activists who have warned of a possible rollback of democratic safeguards.

On Nov. 25, flash floods triggered by Cyclone Senyar struck Sumatra, severely damaging Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra. Two weeks later, more than 3 million people had been affected, with 1 million displaced, 836 dead, 518 still missing, and some 2,700 injured as of 16.00 Western Indonesia Time (WIB) on Dec. 4.

Fuel and liquified petroleum gas (LPG) supply is still limited and electricity has not fully recovered, with occasional blackouts continuing.

Riau Islands province has signaled it is ready to implement community service as an alternative punishment for criminal offenses carrying a maximum five years in prison or a fine of Rp 10 million when the new KUHP goes into effect on Jan. 2.

The regions hit by the floods and landslides in Aceh remain cut off from the government’s rescue efforts and aid delivery because of infrastructural damages, prompting fear of a rising death toll in one of the worst-hit provinces in the disaster.

Foreign investors need assurances that their long-term investments will be protected from arbitrary decisions or bad-faith actors.

Indonesia’s bid to mass-produce cars of a homegrown brand in 2027 is “highly ambitious”, experts say, noting that an electric vehicle model would require sustained fiscal outlays and far stronger technical competencies than the country currently possesses.

The Indonesian Navy deployed at least 13 warships, five helicopters and an airplane to distribute relief for disaster victims in the northern part of Sumatra.

Drug smugglers Ali Tokman, 65, and Siegfried Mets, 74, have been languishing in jails for years after falling foul of the country's strict narcotics laws.

The Finance Ministry expects the Sumatra disaster to only have a slight impact on gross domestic product growth in the fourth quarter.