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Bali court jails 35 Indian nationals over online gambling operation

The defendants told the court they had been victims of international human trafficking, saying they were recruited in India through employment agencies and promised legitimate jobs in Bali as data-entry staff and security guards.

11 hours ago
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Aceh question slow recovery nearly a year after devastating floods

The recovery in Aceh has lagged behind progress in other flood-affected areas, with only 58 percent of damaged bridges operational as of Oct. 6. ...

13 hours ago
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Worsening haze disrupts flights across Sumatra

Flights were delayed, rescheduled, diverted or forced to return to their departure airports as thickening haze pushed visibility below safe levels. ...

16 hours ago

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Measles outbreak hits Sumenep amid declining childhood immunization

Sumenep Health Agency’s Achmad Syamsuri said authorities suspect the recent measles outbreak in the regency was triggered by a decline in pediatric immunizations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

1 year ago
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Bone regency postpones property tax increase as discontent spreads across country

Home Minister Tito Karnavian said regional heads have the authority to increase land and building tax based on a 2022 law on fiscal relations and not because of the central government's efficiency drive. 

1 year ago
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Police arrest convicted serial killer in double murder case

Following Ibin’s instructions, NAT and MR went to a stone quarry in Warungpiring, Pemalang Regency, in the early hours of Aug. 10 to carry out what they believed was the final step of the ritual, unaware that the coffee they had been given was laced with poison.

1 year ago
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Death of a four-year-old due to extreme worm infection sparks online outrage

Over the following days, hundreds of live roundworms, collectively weighing around one kilogram, were expelled from her body, with some measuring up to 15 centimeters in length. Despite intensive care in the hospital’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), Raya passed away nine days later.

1 year ago
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Attacks on journalists in Bone, Grobogan raise concerns on press freedom

An attack on a journalist is a threat to the public’s rights for information, Press Council executive Abdul Manan said. 

1 year ago
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Blora oil well fire burns for fourth day as authorities struggle to extinguish the blaze

The blaze killed three people and injured two others, including a one-year-old boy who is currently receiving treatment at a local hospital after suffering burns on 63 percent of his body.

1 year ago
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Peruvian woman faces death penalty for alleged drug smuggling to Bali

The 42-year-old woman, identified only as NSBC, was arrested at Bali’s I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport on Aug. 12 after authorities allegedly found more than 1.4 kilograms of cocaine and 33.9 grams of ecstasy in her possession.

1 year ago
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Property tax protest in Bone regency injures 6 security personnel

Six security personnel were injured during a protest against a rumored 300 percent property tax hike that turned violent on Tuesday, when residents became angry after waiting hours to meet with the regent.

1 year ago
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Spanish man dies while spearfishing in North Bali

Police suspected that the victim experienced a blackout or oxygen deprivation while spearfishing at depth, due to insufficient or inadequate equipment.

1 year ago
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Batam MUI urges govt to make detailed SOP for treating Gazans on Galang Island

Batam MUI supports the plan based on the hifdzun nafsi (protect lives) principle in Islam.

1 year ago
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Indonesia U-17 soccer team places second in the 2025 Independence Cup after losing to Mali

The match against Indonesia secured Mali the championship title of the 2025 Independence Cup. The Mali U-17 team finished the tournament with a perfect record, collecting 9 points after earlier victories over Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

1 year ago
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Pati regent retreats from public view as resignation demands mount

Sudewo was notably absent from the Independence Day flag-hoisting ceremony at Pati’s town square on Sunday and Central Java Deputy Governor Taj Yasin Maimoen led the event in his place.

1 year ago
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Immigration downplays report of IDF-linked investors in Bali

“They are not former IDF members. They simply underwent mandatory military service while living and studying in Israel. It is strongly suspected that the photos circulating online were taken during that period,” head of the Denpasar Immigration Office, R. Haryo Sakti, said.

1 year ago
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Three dead, 50 families evacuated as oil well burns in Blora

Blora is known for its old oil wells from the Dutch colonial era, with the first oil well drilled in 1893.

1 year ago
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Festive Indonesia celebrates 80th Independence Day

People across the archipelago celebrated the 80th year of Indonesian Independence on Sunday in a festive mood.

1 year ago
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Dozens injured after magnitude 6.0 quake strikes Central Sulawesi

The quake, at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), shook the Poso Regency and was felt in the nearby areas. Twenty-nine people were injured, two critically, the agency said in a statement.

1 year ago
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Hailstorm in Jambi not linked to weather modification efforts, BMKG says

BMKG’s weather modification deputy supervisor, Fikri Nur Muhammad, attributed the hailstorm to the rapid formation of a cumulonimbus cloud over the region.

1 year ago
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Seven victims of massive protests in Pati getting better

Most victims suffered from breathing difficulties after being exposed to tear gas thrown by the police while two policemen suffered from wounds after being hit by stones and blunt objects.

1 year ago
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More than 360 hit by food poisoning after eating free school meal in Central Java

Since its launch in January, the free school meals program has been marred by mass food poisoning cases across the country, affecting over 1,000 people.

1 year ago
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Govt denies austerity measures behind tax hike in Pati

The administration of Prabowo Subianto has denied reports that budget shortfalls from the austerity measures prompted a now-scrapped tax hike in Central Java’s Pati, as it called for dialogue to resolve public unrest in the regency that culminated in massive protests on Wednesday.

1 year ago
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Aceh urges Massachusetts to preserve Salem city seal depicting Acehnese

Some Acehnese and local historians believe that the figure depicted on the Salem city seal is Po Adam, a prominent local leader from Kuala Batu, an area now part of present-day Southwest Aceh Regency.

1 year ago
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Massive protest erupts in Pati demanding regent’s resignation

The protest triggers local councilors to open an inquiry to investigate alleged misconduct of Regent Sudewo that could lead to his impeachment.

1 year ago
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Lampung farmer killed by tiger in national park

The victim’s body was found inside the South Bukit Barisan National Park, which is a conservation forest and wild animal habitat.

1 year ago
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Military court sentences soldier to death for killing three policemen

Bazarsah’s death sentence marks one of the few instances in recent years where a military court has imposed the death penalty on a soldier for committing an unlawful killing.

1 year ago
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Consulate in Johor Bahru repatriates 77 Indonesians to Batam

The consulate general in Johor Bahru has helped facilitate the return of over 300 Indonesians, mostly migrant workers, in three batches this year, with the latest group touching home soil on Aug. 9, almost exactly a week before Independence Day.

1 year ago
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Magnitude 6.3 quake hits Papua

The epicentre of the quake, which struck at around 5:24 pm (0824 GMT), was around 193 kilometres northwest of the town of Abepura in Papua, USGS said. 

1 year ago
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East Java moves to regulate controversial horeg sound systems amid backlash

Doctors in Lumajang, East Java, have reported a rise in patients experiencing hearing problems after attending events featuring horeg sound systems.

1 year ago
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Family of Chinese tourist killed in capsized boat takes legal action

The victim's family accused the fast boat operator of negligence by running the boat too fast and not taking the appropriate route.

1 year ago
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20 soldiers named suspects for allegedly torturing their junior to death

The Military Police have named twenty members of the Army suspects for allegedly torturing junior soldier Lucky Chepril Saputra Namo to death in a barracks in Nagekeo, East Nusa Tenggara.

1 year ago
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Riau Islands fully supports plan to treat injured Gazans in Galang Island

“This is a central government program, and of course we must support it. We hope that through this effort, we can strengthen ties between Indonesia and Palestine,” Riau Islands Deputy Governor Nyanyang Haris Pratamura said.

1 year ago
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