A teacher collect data on Sekolah Rakyat students ahead of the health examination at the SRMA 5 Jambi Sekolah Rakyat senior high school in Jambi on July 14, 2025.

Parents place high hopes in Sekolah Rakyat as schools open

The Social Affairs Ministry opened the doors of 63 Sekolah Rakyat (community school) sites across the country on Monday, with students slated to undergo orientation and assessments first before starting the regular learning process in August.

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Envoys matter

Diplomacy under the Trump administration requires grit and resolve and we are not that sure if and when Indroyono is confirmed, he will bring much to the table. ...

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Rescuers to recover wreckage of sunken ferry near Bali

The plan to recover the KNP Tunu Pratama Jaya ferry that sank in the Bali Strait was announced after joint search and rescue team confirmed the location of the wreck of the sunken vessel over the weekend. ...

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This photo taken on May 26, 2025 shows clothes hanging on balconies of a building inside the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone along the Mekong river in the Bokeo province of Laos. Rising from the muddy fields on the Mekong riverbank in Laos, a lotus tops a casino in a sprawling city which analysts decry as a center for cybercrime.

Asia & Pacific

'Las Vegas in Laos': Riverside city awash with crime

The Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone (GTSEZ) is the most prominent of more than 90 such areas established across the Mekong region in recent years, often offering people reduced taxes or government regulation.

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A student carries lunch boxes on the first day of a free meal program at a Muhammadiyah high school in Sidoarjo, East Java, on January 6.

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Muhammadiyah channels funds into new rural sharia bank

The OJK hoped that the conversion of BSM could pave the way for the merger of other rural banks under Muhammadiyah, eventually forming a fully-fledged sharia bank.

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The second dessert of the 13-course menu, the Strawberry Eton Mess is a mix of vanilla, yogurt and lime, plated with fresh strawberries and sauce.

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Fine dining, redefined: Inside The Crown by Kirk Westaway at Fairmont Jakarta

Michelin-starred chef Kirk Westaway brings modern British cuisine to new heights in Jakarta.

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Maman Abdurrahman, minister of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), gestures as he leaves the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in South Jakarta on July 4, 2025, after he was questioned over official correspondence related to his wife's trip to several European cities.

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Govt to increase 2026 microloan cap to Rp 430t to boost homeownership

In line with President Prabowo's "3 million homes" program, the MSMEs and housing ministries are preparing to devise a special microcredit scheme for housing next year with a cap of Rp 430 trillion.

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Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy, US President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (from left to right) attend the start of a NATO leaders summit in The Hague, Netherlands June 25, 2025.

Europe

Trump teases 'major statement' on Russia ahead of NATO talks

Trump, seeking to negotiate an end to the three-year war, has expressed growing impatience with the Kremlin leader, and over the weekend announced a fresh weapons cache for Ukraine.

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Interactive nutrition education: A preschool teacher introduces children to the “Isi Piringku” (My Plate) program at Batu City Hall, East Java. The program, supported by the Batu city administration and Danone Indonesia, aims to promote balanced nutrition and help prevent childhood stunting, a critical public health issue highlighted in the call for a national nutrition resilience protocol.

Academia

Indonesia Needs a National Nutrition Resilience Protocol

In a world marked by growing political instability, climate disruption, and volatile global trade, Indonesia’s food and nutrition security can no longer be left to chance.

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A woman holds euro banknotes in this illustration taken May 30, 2022. The euro hit parity against the US dollar on July 13, 2022.

Markets

Euro zone bond yields touch April high after EU gets 30% tariff

For its part, the EU has already prepared a list of tariffs worth 21 billion euros ($24.5 billion) on US goods if the two countries fail to reach a trade deal, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Monday.

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China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (right) shakes hands with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a ministerial meeting on the sidelines of the 57th Association of southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Meeting and Related Meetings in Vientiane on July 25, 2024.

Asia & Pacific

China hails 'strategically valuable' Russia ties in Lavrov visit

Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov was visiting Beijing after a trip to North Korea, where he received assurances of support for Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

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Cambodian President of the Senate and President of Cambodian People's Party (CPP) Hun Sen (center), Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet (right) and Honorary President of the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) Heng Samrin (left) release doves during a ceremony marking the 74th founding anniversary of the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) in Phnom Penh on June 28, 2025.

Asia & Pacific

Cambodia to implement military conscription in 2026

Cambodia's parliament in 2006 approved a law that would require all Cambodians aged 18 to 30 to serve in the military for 18 months, although it has never been enforced.

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The joint Indonesian Military (TNI) Academy drum band performs during the full-dress general rehearsal for Bastille Day Parade in Paris on Saturday, July 12. The drum band, consisting of cadets from the academies of the three services as well as the Police Academy, is part of the Patriot II Task Force representing Indonesia as the guest of honor at the French National Day parade.

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Prabowo attends Bastille Day Parade, Indonesian contingent in opening column

Prabowo may witness the signing of more defense contracts, as well as other cooperation agreements.

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South Korea's President Lee Jae-Myung talks during a meeting with party leaders after the presidential inauguration ceremony at the National Assembly in Seoul on June 4, 2025.

Regulations

South Korea says framework US trade deal possible by August, farm market access on table

South Korea is in a race to reach a compromise trade pact in the hope of avoiding a 25 percent tariff slapped on its exports by Trump that is set to kick in on August 1, after a late start to negotiations with a new president voted in last month.

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A returning pilgrim reacts on June 28 upon arrival at Sultan Iskandar Muda International Airport in Blang Bintang, Aceh, after performing the annual haj pilgrimage.

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Haj season concludes as law revision moves ahead

Indonesia officially wrapped up this year’s haj season late last week with the departure of the final group of pilgrims from Medina, Saudi Arabia, coinciding with a recent legislative push in Jakarta to revise the 2019 haj law.

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Two Palestinians stand on the roof of a building as smoke billows following Israeli strikes on Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip on July 13, 2025. Delegations from Israel and the Palestinian militant Hamas group have now spent a week trying to agree on a temporary truce to halt 21 months of devastating fighting in the Gaza Strip.

Middle East and Africa

Gaza civil defense says Israeli strikes kill 43 as truce talks deadlocked

The Israeli military, which has recently intensified operations across Gaza, said that in the past 24 hours the air force "struck more than 150 terror targets".

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen attends a meeting with representatives of the European car industry as part of a Strategic Dialogue on the Future of the European Automotive Industry in Brussels, Belgium on Monday, March 3, 2025.

Regulations

EU ministers weigh response to latest Trump tariff threat

EU officials insist the bloc remains clear-eyed on the challenges of dealing with the unpredictable US leader, and ready to hit back.

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Then Indonesian Armed Forces Commander Gen. Wiranto (left) removes the Army's Strategic Reserves Commander epaulet from Lt. Gen. Prabowo Subianto, now the country's president, during a handover ceremony at the military headquarters in Jakarta on May 28, 1998. In the late 1990s, deadly riots preceded Indonesian dictator Suharto's fall, but the government says the vengeful bloodbaths that mostly targeted ethnically Chinese Indonesians will be skipped in a forthcoming revision of its official history books.

Society

Rewriting the past: Indonesia's new history books spook scholars

A summary of the rule of Soeharto, who is also Prabowo's former father-in-law, only mentions how "student demonstrations... became a factor" in his resignation.

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Affirmation of life: The album's closing track, “Kehidupan“, is Monita Tahalea’s tender declaration that no human life is without meaning.

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Monita Tahalea comes alive with new album ‘Merona’

Indonesian singer-songwriter Monita Tahalea's latest studio album, Merona, is an artistic exploration and transformation, as well as a reincarnation.

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Wreckage showing the tail section of the Air India Boeing 787-8 is pictured in a residential area near the airport in Ahmedabad on June 14, 2025, after the aircraft operating as flight 171 crashed shortly after taking off on June 12. Investigators recovered a black box recorder on June 13 from the crash site of a London-bound passenger jet that ploughed into a residential area of India's Ahmedabad city, killing at least 279 people on board and on the ground.

Asia & Pacific

Amid Air India probe, US FAA, Boeing notify fuel switch locks are safe

The FAA's Continued Airworthiness Notification on July 11 came after a preliminary report into Air India's Boeing 787-8 crash, which killed 260 people last month, raised questions over engine fuel cutoff switches.

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Shipping containers are stacked on April 12, 2024, at a port in Lianyungang, in
eastern China's Jiangsu province. Chinese exports plunged more than expected in
March, official figures show, as the world's second-largest economy struggles to
sustain its post-pandemic recovery.

Economy

China exports soared in June, beating forecasts

Data from the General Administration of Customs said exports rose 5.8 percent year-on-year, topping the five percent forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists.

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A trader works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, US, on April 9, 2025.

Markets

Wall St slips with Asia stocks as US trade policy confounds

Investors have become largely inured to Trump's chaotic policy methods and stocks eased only modestly.

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A general view of the opening session of the first National History Seminar, held on Dec. 14, 1957, in Yogyakarta.

Academia

Revising history: A return to an incomplete narrative?

The rewriting of national history is a calculated move to bolster an increasingly authoritarian government, as it relies solely on scholars and historians with ties to those in power.

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Tech effect: A student collects data for electronic voter identification on Jan. 24, 2024, at SMA Kartika XIX-1 senior high school in Bandung, West Java. The Bandung administration reached out to high school students to achieve its target figure for first-time voters registered for the 2024 general election.

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Why governing algorithmic politics in electoral law matters

Today, political consultants employ generative and predictive AI to process voter data and tailor campaign materials to support candidates.

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Europe

EU and Indonesia announce 'political agreement' on trade deal

Brussels has stepped up efforts to improve ties with key potential partners around the world as Trump threatens a trade war with sweeping tariffs.

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President Prabowo Subianto looks on during the first plenary session of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 6. BRICS leaders meeting in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday are expected to decry United States President Donald Trump's “indiscriminate“ trade tariffs, saying they are illegal and risk hurting the global economy.

Academia premium

Trump’s letter makes BRICS a strategic bet for Indonesia

BRICS, though not a replacement for existing alliances, must be used as leverage.

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Two US Marines take up positions on the West Front of the US Capitol as preparations are made prior to the 59th inaugural ceremony for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in Washington, DC on Jan. 20.

Opinion premium

Analysis: Prabowo’s nominee for Washington post proves to be an anti-climax

President Prabowo Subianto’s choice of a senior bureaucrat to be Indonesia’s new ambassador to the United States is somewhat anticlimactic, casting doubts on whether he has picked the right person for the right job, and at the right time.

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Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim delivers a speech on July 9 during the 58th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Editorial

Beyond ASEAN centrality

A lack of unity may be what is wrong with ASEAN today

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Second Deputy Higher Education, Science and Technology Minister Stella Christie (right) receives a traditional Dayak headband from a student on June 18 during a visit to the Garuda Transformation School at SMAN 10 in Samarinda, East Kalimantan.

Politics premium

Concerns mount over deputy ministers’ concurrent positions in SOEs

Public criticism is intensifying over President Prabowo Subianto's decision to appoint deputy ministers as commissioners in state-owned enterprises (SOEs), a practice critics warn threatens good governance and undermines anti-corruption efforts.

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Holding its own: Electronics company PT Pegatron Technology Indonesia, pictured above, began operating plants in the Batamindo Industrial Zone in Batam, Riau Islands, in 2019.

Companies premium

US tariffs put ‘significant pressure’ on RI industrial estates

Industrial estate managers say US import tariffs and anti-China trade policies are a burden on their business, forcing them to resort to operational and regulatory measures, as well as diversification, to ensure their global competitiveness.

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