Gold and silver bars are piled up in the safe deposit boxes room of the Pro Aurum gold house in Munich, Germany, on Jan. 10, 2025.

Police probe Rp 25 trillion money laundering linked to illegal gold mining

The funds were traced through gold shops and refining companies using raw materials from the illegal mine, as well as through gold exporters.

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Sumatra flood survivors observe Ramadan with quiet resilience

Putri said observing the fast from an emergency tent is far from ideal. The shelter becomes stiflingly hot in the afternoon and uncomfortably cold at night. She also worries about the risk of wild animals entering her tent. ...

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Cloud seeding helps induce rain as Riau continues to battle wildfires

A cloud seeding operation has helped in firefighting efforts as Riau continues to battle hot spots and wildfires that have burned through at least 564 hectares across several regions over the past three weeks. ...

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A sun bear is seen in a cage on July 24, 2018, at the Riau Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) facility after being captured by villagers in Pekanbaru, Riau.

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Man given 2-year prison term in Medan for selling protected sun bear

The sun bear is the world's smallest bear and is native to Indonesia and Malaysia.

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Herd immunity: A veterinarian vaccinates a cow against foot- and-mouth disease (FMD) on Feb. 2 in Sukowetan village, Karangan, Trenggalek, East Java. The vaccination campaign has been intensified as an emergency measure to curb the spread of an FMD outbreak following the discovery of dozens of new cases over the past month.

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Riau intensifies livestock vaccination amid FMD outbreak

The number of FMD cases in Riau this year has already surpassed last year’s total.

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A worker sets up vegetable seeds on July 21, 2025, at the Hutadaa Red and White Cooperative in Gorontalo regency, Gorontalo. The cooperative is one of 80,000 sites opened under the Red and White Cooperative initiative launched by President Prabowo Subianto on July 21.

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Villages struggle to secure land for red and white cooperatives

Many villages are situated in mountainous areas with uneven terrain, requiring expensive cut-and-fill work to prepare a 1,000-square-meter plot. In addition, some village land is located far from main roads due to limited infrastructure, making access difficult.

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A member of a joint security team (center rear, crouching) talks to five people in a room at the Amira Wisma Dumai hotel in Riau on Dec. 12, 2025, as two colleagues (in doorway) look on, during an operation to prevent their departure to jobs in Cambodia through Malaysia, allegedly organized by a human trafficking syndicate.

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Police nab two Riau students over attempt to smuggle 18 foreigners to Malaysia

According to police, the students were paid to transport the group by car from Pekanbaru to Dumai, where a boat had been arranged to take the 18 foreign migrants to Malaysia via an illegal port.

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Berau Regent Sri Juniarsih Mas inspects plastic waste on Feb. 11 during the inauguration of a waste-sorting facility on Derawan Island, East Kalimantan. The popular diving and snorkeling destination is grappling with a mounting waste crisis fueled by tourism and marine debris, underscoring the growing waste management challenges faced by many small islands across Indonesia’s vast archipelago.

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Diving paradise Derawan Island faces mounting waste crisis

Covering just 44.6 hectares and home to around 2,000 residents, the island generates more than 46 tonnes of waste per day, more than double the national average waste production per capita.

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Floodwaters submerge Tinanding Village on Tuesday in Gubug District, Grobogan Regency, Central Java. Torrential rains have caused severe flooding across Grobogan regency, damaging key roads, inundating homes and submerging thousands of hectares of rice fields.

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Torrential rains trigger widespread flooding in Grobogan

The disaster affected 42 villages across 10 districts, with water levels reported between 50 and 100 centimeters. Floodwaters also inundated 26 schools, more than 1,800 hectares of rice fields and severely damaged two houses.

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The Indonesian Military's (TNI) Joint Regional Defense Command (Kogabwilhan) III commanding general Lt. Gen. Bambang Trisnohadi (right) talks to two Papuan students on Feb. 17 during a public kitchen event in Tinibil village in Oksamol district, Pegunungan Bintang regency, Papua Highlands, in this picture provided by the Defense Ministry. Kogabwilhan III also provided basic medical service for villagers.

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TNI holds public kitchen, medical service in Papua village

The activities are in line with national policy to accelerate welfare development in Papua as regulated by Presidential Instruction No. 9/2020 and Law No. 2/2021 on Special Autonomy for Papua.

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Bima police chief, subordinates arrested for drug trafficking

Didik was arrested after the authorities discovered a suitcase containing 16.3 grams of methamphetamine, 50 ecstasy pills, 19 alprazolam tablets, two “Happy Five” pills and 5 grams of ketamine during a raid at the private residence of a female police officer in Karawaci, Tangerang, on Feb. 11.

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Interrupted childhood: Two children from Gampong Gunci village stand in a temporary housing complex on Monday in Sawang, North Aceh, Aceh province. A total of 326 residents from 85 families have been living in the emergency shelters for three months after flash floods and landslides struck their villages in late November 2025. They are scheduled to relocate to temporary housing at the start of Ramadan.

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Thousands of Aceh flood evacuees welcome Ramadan from emergency tents

Panji Akbar, another evacuee in Aceh Tamiang, said he fears this year’s Ramadan will be far less peaceful than in previous years.

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Ongoing conflict: Personnel from a joint military and police team remove the bodies on Feb. 12 of a Smart Air pilot and copilot at Korowai airfield in Boven Digoel regency, South Papua.

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Police arrest two armed criminals in Yahukimo

Two suspects, identified as GW and AH, have been confirmed to be members of the Sisibia armed criminal group.

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Norwegian International Development Minister Asmund Aukrust (left) shakes hands and holds a memento with Indonesian Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni on Feb. 12 during the launch of the fourth period of the Community Environmental Fund Service Small Grant in Jakarta. The small grant is a funding scheme to support Indonesia’s Forestry and Other Land Use (FOLU) Net sink 2030 target.

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Norway, Indonesia launch fourth period of Environmental Fund

The small grant is a funding scheme to support Indonesia’s target for Forestry and Other Land Use (FOLU) Net sink 2030.

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A firefighter battles a peatland wildfire on July 10, 2025, as forest and land fires returned amid extreme heat, in Rimba Panjang, Riau.

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Riau declares emergency alert for forest fires

Riau Police chief spokesman Sr. Comr. Zahwani Pandra Arsyad said all regional police forces had been instructed to increase patrols and surveillance in regions prone to forest fires to prevent them from spreading.

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A man in Hanoman costume shakes hands with a visitor on Feb. 13, 2026, during the Tok Panjang communal dinner at the opening ceremony of Semawis Imlek night market in the Chinatown in Gang Gambiran, Semarang. Tok Panjang is usually held to celebrate Chinese New Year, locally known as Imlek, and this year will be the Year of the Horse.

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Semarang holds Imlek night market to welcome Chinese New Year

Visitors are expected to wear Chinese costumes, such as kebaya encim, as well as Indonesian traditional costumes.

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Mourners weep during a symbolic funeral ceremony for missing victims at the site of flash floods and landslides in Hutanabolon, Tukka district, Central Tapanuli, North Sumatra, on Dec. 23, 2025. The ceremony was held for families who lost relatives during the recent flash floods and landslides.

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Fresh floods devastate Central Tapanuli two months after deadly cyclone

The flooding damaged two emergency river levees in Tukka and Barus districts and washed away two temporary bridges in Sibabangun and Tapian Nauli, cutting off access to at least four villages.

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Brazilian national Yuri Bezzera da Costa leaves the Denpasar District Court in Bali on Feb. 12, 2026, after being sentenced to 18 years in prison for trafficking 3 kilograms of cocaine.

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Brazilian sentenced to 18 years in prison for smuggling cocaine to Bali

Da Costa was arrested on July 13 last year upon arriving at Bali’s I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport from Brazil. Customs officers discovered two packages in his luggage containing a total of 3.2 kilograms of cocaine.

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Personnel from a joint team (background) talk to five prospective migrant workers at Wisma Amira hotel in Dumai, Riau, on Dec. 12, 2025. A human trafficking syndicate was going to send the migrant workers to work in Cambodia through Malaysia.

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Riau couple held for facilitating human trafficking

Bengkalis Police have uncovered two illegal migrant workers syndicates in the past two weeks.

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A local resident rescues a wounded Irrawaddy dolphin from the Mahakam River in East Kalimantan in this undated photo.

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Two firms sealed for allegedly contributing to degradation of Irrawaddy dolphin habitat

“We have taken firm action by temporarily halting the operations of both companies,” Environment Minister Hanif Faisal Nurofiq said.

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Members of the Indonesian military (TNI) and police evacuate students on Jan. 29, 2026 that are suspected to have suffered from food poisoning from the free meals program at a senior high school in Kudus regency, Central Java.

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200 students in North Sumatra fall ill after consuming govt provided lunch

Some students reported that the fish smelled off and the tempeh appeared moldy.

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Missing Mt. Lawu hiker found dead after 24-day search

The climber's body was found along a river with steep slopes in a slippery and highly risky for search and rescue workers.

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Punchlines and power: An official poster for Mens Rea, a stand-up special by Indonesian comedian Pandji Pragiwaksono, who uses satire to poke fun at those in power and has drawn a large audience on global streaming platform Netflix.

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Comedian Pandji Pragiwaksono faces customary tribunal over stand-up remarks

Pandji drew complaints from the indigenous Toraja community after he criticized the Rambu Solo burial ritual during a stand-up performance in 2013.

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An aerial photo shows a containment pond at the center of the Lapindo mudflow eruption site in Porong, Sidoarjo, East Java, on Feb. 8, 2026. The Environment Ministry says it will soon prepare a Strategic Environmental Assessment as part of its efforts to manage the Lapindo mud disaster, which continues to spew hot mud from underground.

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Lapindo task force focuses on mudflow pond's stability amid extreme weather

Water and mud are discharged periodically into the Porong River to maintain the retention pond's capacity.

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An animal caregiver carries a Bengal tiger cub on Thursday in the Bandung Zoo in Bandung, West Java. Bandung Mayor Oded M. Danial named the female tiger cub, born on Aug. 22, 2025, Donggalah.

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Bandung Zoo permit revoked as internal dispute sparks animal welfare concerns

More than 700 animals at Bandung Zoo are at risk of starvation because of the prolonged closure and uncertainty over management.

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Overloaded: Scavengers collect trash at the Putri Cempo final dump site (TPA) in Mojosongo, Surakarta, Central Java. The Surakarta administration has planned to use TPA Putri Cempo as an electricity producing waste processing plant.

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Surakarta landfill crisis highlights Indonesia’s growing waste problem

Andri Priyatno, head of a local neighborhood unit, said landfill operators have spent the past two months dumping waste in the eastern section of the facility, dangerously close to residential areas. At its nearest point, the dumping site is only about 20 meters from homes.

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Bank damage: An aerial image of Pasir Putih village on Jan. 31, 2026, by a river whose banks were heavily eroded after flooding in Gayo Lues regency, Aceh. The village, home to 157 families, was cut off after a bridge collapsed and electricity has yet to be restored following November 2025 flash floods and landslides.

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Aceh still suffers from blackouts, evacuees lack clean water supplies

Difficult terrains make it more difficult for PT PLN workers to resume electritiy supply to several villages because they cannot reach those villeages due to collapsed roads and damaged bridges.

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Rescuers recover bodies after hours of heavy rain triggered flooding and a landslide near a gold mine in a remote area near Manokwari, West Papua, in this handout photo taken and released on May 19, 2025, by the National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS).

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Landslide at illegal gold mine in Riau kills one

The fatal incident in Kuantan Singingi is the latest in a series of deadly accidents linked to illegal gold mining in recent weeks.

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An Irrawaddy dolphin breaches the water in this undated photo. Irrawaddy dolphins can be found in rivers, lakes and seas across southern Asia, from the northwest Bay of Bengal to the south of Indonesia.

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Emergency action planned to save Irrawaddy Dolphins in Mahakam River

“The government will take serious action, as the Mahakam Irrawaddy dolphin population has dropped to an alarming level,” said the ministry’s head of pollution control and environmental degradation Rasio Ridho Sani.

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