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Surabaya blocks public services for 8,000 men failing to pay child support

The measure aims to address widespread noncompliance with post-divorce financial obligations, which he said has left many former spouses and children without adequate support.

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Batam uses fingerprints to return homeless, mentally ill people to their hometowns

The Batam city administration aims to reduce the city budget burden in providing public services to nonresidents. ...

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TNI smuggling crackdown in Riau raises military overreach concerns

The Indonesian Military (TNI) has foiled an attempt to smuggle food commodities from the Netherlands into Riau in an operation that has sparked concerns over potential military overreach into civilian affairs. ...

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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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Bali Police chief Insp. Gen. Daniel Adityajaya (center) and other officers show evidence from an online gambling network run by Indians on Feb. 7, 2026, during a press conference at Bali Police heaquarters in Denpasar. Police have named 35 suspects and four witnesses in the case.

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Bali Police arrest dozens of Indians in online gambling crackdown

Indians used tourist visas to operate online gambling centers in two separate locations since November.

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Disaster survivors walk along a road covered by thick mud on Jan. 31, 2026, in Pining village, Pining district, Gayo Lues, Aceh. Aceh Governor Muzakir Manaf has officially shifted the province’s disaster response from emergency status to a 90-day emergency transition toward recovery, effective from Jan. 29 to April 29, prioritizing cross-sector coordination of relief efforts, fulfillment of basic needs and protection for vulnerable groups and displaced residents in affected areas.

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Recovery in North Aceh, Central Aceh criticized as many villages still isolated

Eight villages in Central Aceh regency as still isolated while several villages in North Aceh still lack transportation access, especially those in mountainous areas.

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Rescue members carry a body bag containing the remains of a victim from the site of a landslide following heavy rains in Pasirlangu village, Cisarua district, West Bandung regency, West Java, on Jan. 27, 2026.

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Indonesia landslide death toll rises to 74

The search for missing victims would continue in West Bandung regency, but with adjustments as it had now entered the recovery phase, authorities have said.

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An aerial view of logs on Dec. 2, 2025, which were swept away by a flash flood, stranded in Batang Toru, South Tapanuli, North Sumatra.

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Cyclone Senyar triggered 330 landslides in South Tapanuli, survey finds

The survey was conducted by direct observation method by following the river flow and using drone for wider coverage on Jan. 21-27.

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Jumbo solution: A mahout feeds a Sumatran elephant on Jan. 23, 2026, at the Elephant Conservation Information Center operated by the Jambi Natural Resources Conservation Agency in Bukit Tigapuluh, Muara Sekalo, Jambi. The center, which officially began operating in 2022 with five Sumatran elephants, serves to prevent human-wild elephant conflict in the Bukit Tigapuluh area and also functions as a nature tourism and conservation education site.

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Riau Police probe death of critically endangered Sumatran elephant

In recent years, several incidents have been reported of Sumatran elephants dying from poison set by farmers who consider them pests, as well as fatal attacks on humans. The species also faces serious threats from poaching, with their tusks highly sought after in the illegal wildlife trade.

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A guard of honor from the Indonesian Navy's Marine Corps escorts the coffins carrying the bodies of First Pvt. Burton C. Silitonga, Chief Pvt. Dicky Yogha Priambada and Second Cpl. Anton Karisma on Feb. 3, 2026, during a military send-off ceremony at Pondok Cabe Naval Air Base in South Tangerang, Banten. The three "Black Bears" riflemen were killed in a landslide on Jan. 24 while training in Cisarua, West Bandung, West Java.

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Marines send off body of fourth corpsman recovered from Cisarua landslide

The body of the fourth "Black Bear" rifleman recovered from the Cisarua landslide has been flown home after a send-off ceremony on Wednesday at the Pondok Cabe air base in Banten, while the search continues for the remaining nine out of 23 Marine corpsmen who are still missing.

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Police and military personnel inspect buildings damaged by the earthquake on Feb. 6, 2026, in Suruh Village, Trenggalek Regency, East Java. Authorities reported that seven homes and one village office in the regency were damaged after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck the area at around 1 a.m.

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6.2-magnitude quake rattles southern Java

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reported that the quake struck at 1:06 a.m. Its epicenter was located in the sea south of Java, 89 kilometers southeast of Pacitan regency in East Java, at a depth of 58 kilometers.

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Dozens of Indonesian military (TNI) personnel and volunteers clean Kedonganan Beach in Badung Regency on Jan. 3, 2026, as part of Bali’s major beach cleanup initiative following President Prabowo Subianto’s criticism of the island’s growing waste problem.

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Prabowo criticism sparks major beach cleanup drive in Bali

Bali has been grappling with a growing waste crisis in recent years, with unmanaged garbage frequently contributing to environmental problems such as flooding, even in popular tourist areas.

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Two Mitsubishi Canter trucks carrying processed timber are seen impounded at the Riau Police headquarters in Pekanbaru in this photo released on Feb. 2, 2026. The timber was not accompanied by a forest product permit (SKSHH) and is suspected to be from illegal logging activities in Kerumutan Wildlife Sanctuary conservation area in Pelalawan regency, Riau.

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Police arrest five people in two separate illegal logging cases in Riau

Illegal logging activities are rampant in Riau despite continuous law enforcement efforts by the police.

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A cage full of lovebirds is among the protected wildlife ready to be smuggled to Thailand from the eastern coast of Aceh, as displayed by the Forestry Ministry's Sumatra Forestry Law Enforcement Agency in Banda Aceh on Feb. 2, 2026.

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Authorities prevent attempted smuggling of wildlife to Thailand

The suspect attempted to smuggle 53 cages of protected wildlife, mostly birds.

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Environment Ministry enforcement officers inspect PT Vopak Terminal Merak in Cilegon, Banten, on Feb. 4, 2026, after a thick yellow-brown smoke release caused health concerns.

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Nitric acid leak in Cilegon hospitalizes dozens, raises safety concerns

A toxic fume leak from a chemical storage facility in the industrial district of Cilegon, Banten, has sickened dozens of residents and exposed gaps in industrial safety enforcement, prompting the government to threaten criminal action against the operator.

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