Three out of four young people in Indonesia want to have two children or more, but they also believe they will eventually have fewer children in their lifetime, according to the United Nations family planning body.

Most digital fraud, which ranges from fraudulent investment to love scams, flourishes in Indonesia due to lagging progress from authorities in fighting the scammers who are relatively quicker to adapt and innovate, experts suggested.

Once widely seen as a rite of passage, marriage is being redefined by Indonesia’s Gen Z, who are increasingly choosing to wait or keep celebrations modest as rising living costs and evolving personal values reshape their priorities.

From TikTok trends to free durians, religious affairs offices (KUA) across Indonesia are adopting creative tactics to spark Gen Z interest in marriage, as registration numbers continue to fall nationwide.

Two officials have raised a plan to recruit 70,000 new forest rangers across the country to prevent illegal logging, forest encroachment and other forest crimes.

A controversial social media post by a recipient of a state-funded Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP) scholarship about her child’s foreign citizenship has sparked a widespread backlash and drawn government scrutiny, reigniting a debate over the program’s mandatory return-to-Indonesia requirement.

Most cities and regencies in Indonesia are failing to enforce single-use plastic restrictions, a situation worsened by inadequate monitoring systems and budgets needed to meet the national target of phasing out the use of plastics by 2030, a new report has found.

Appointing a retired military doctor may disrupt meritocracy within civilian institutions and hindering the resolve of persistent issues faced by the Health Care and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) and the national health insurance (JKN), observers have said.

The narcotics agency found some liquids for e-cigarette laced with narcotics, such as methamphetamine and etomidate, which is classified as a new psychotic substance.

The Communications and Digital Ministry will block social media accounts owned by underage children as soon as the minimum age limit policy takes place in March, promising immediate action on online platforms for users under 18 years old.

At a Jakarta Arts Council lecture, scholars challenged the state and the public to rewrite disaster history from the perspective of the displaced, as Sumatra struggles to recover from deadly floods and landslides.

The facilities offered for teachers recruited for the Sekolah Garuda (Garuda Schools) program have drawn criticism for potentially creating disparities between educators at elite and regular schools.

Officials will launch ground verification to ensure whether 2,000 beneficiaries that switch to the self-funded scheme can still pay for the premiums by themselves or require subsidies from the state.

The government has announced that Ramadan will start on Thursday following an isbat (moon sighting confirmation) meeting on Tuesday.

Rather than pushing the community for mass actions to pick up trash, the government should focus on addressing systemic flaws in the country’s waste management system, environmentalists have said.

Amid the rare overlap of Lunar New Year and Ramadan, Chinese Muslims in Indonesia are finding ways to honor both celebrations, respecting family customs and Islamic practices at the same time.

The Transportation Ministry has introduced a free mudik (exodus) program this year, deploying hundreds of buses and tens of thousands of free tickets to help families save on travel costs and ease congestion, as authorities brace for one of Indonesia’s largest annual population movements.

For this year's Pulse Day, the APHRS and InaHRS's MENARI campaign aims to teach people how to check their pulse while educating the public on how to maintain heart health.

President Prabowo Subianto promised during the International Workers’ Day, or May Day, rally in 2025 to push the House of Representatives to pass the domestic workers protection bill within three months.

The Environment Ministry announced on Wednesday that authorities had identified two types of chemical pesticides, namely cypermethrin and profenofos, which had contaminated a 22.5-kilometer section of the Cisadane River and its tributary the Jaletreng River.

Over the past few days, many recipients of contribution assistance (PBI), whose premiums are fully covered by the state, were denied medical treatment at hospitals after their subsidized status was revoked without prior notice.

Indikator Politik Indonesia’s founder, Burhanuddin Muhtadi, said satisfaction with the program was highest among Generation Z respondents.

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) saw its budget for 2026 slashed to Rp 491 billion (US$29.1 million) from Rp 2 trillion in 2025, while the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) only got Rp 1.4 trillion for this year.

Recurring cases of suicide among children across the country, including a recent incident in Ngada, East Nusa Tenggara, have laid bare persistent shortcomings in the state’s ability to provide psychological protection for minors, prompting renewed calls for stronger prevention and early-intervention efforts.

Criticism is growing over BPJS Kesehatan's ongoing data update in the new DTSEN system after a number of people have lost access to lifesaving treatments without notice, only to learn later that their healthcare subsidies were cut or their policies canceled altogether.

While women-led initiatives help address challenges and needs to mitigate and adapt to climate crises, they often face tall barriers in participating in formal decision-making to push for greater impacts.

National Nutrition Agency (BGN) head Dadan Hindayana has apologized for recent food poisoning cases linked to the government’s free nutritious meals program, saying operations at all involved SPPGs have been suspended pending investigation.