The newly established Elementary and Secondary Education Ministry is mulling over a plan to revive the national examination in a bid to boost students’ motivation to learn after various reports indicating a decline in the country’s academic performance following the abolition of the exam in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Indonesia ranked at 77th on the Global Hunger Index, with an index value of 16.9 percent, which means moderate hunger, while 7.2 percent of the population is still not food secure . 

Communications and Digital Minister Meutya Hafid relayed President Prabowo’s order not to assist any individual involved in online gambling.

The Jakarta Post won two prizes for feature articles at the Asian Media Awards, organized by the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) on Wednesday night in Singapore.

Police detained three suspects at Soekarno-Hatta Airport for attempting to send 28 Indonesian citizens abroad in an alleged human trafficking ring.

At least a dozen of the communications ministry’s employees were arrested for allegedly enabling online gambling operations. These employees allegedly pocketed a piece of the profit, earning up to Rp 8.5 million ($US539.43) from each site.

Last year's dry season was the most severe since 2019 due to an El Nino weather phenomenon, bringing a prolonged drought that hurt crops and exacerbated forest fires.

Indonesia has much work to do at home to demonstrate its commitment to the recently concluded COP16, which agreed to form a global indigenous body to protect and recognize indigenous communities' wisdom and efforts in biodiversity conversation, including by passing the long-stagnant 2012 bill on indigenous people.

Culture Minister Fadli Zon has reiterated his dedication to repatriating Indonesia's cultural artifacts from abroad.

In a two-to-one decision, the bench ruled that the appeal exceeded legal time constraints, with the dissenting justice argued that IAL's permit violated Indonesia's environmental rules.

October is one of the two hottest months of the year for southern equatorial regions when the Sun is directly above the equator, with the other month being April. 

Two serious accidents involving heavy goods vehicles in the city of Tangerang, Banten, and on the Pemalang-Batang Toll Road in Central Java on Thursday, have raised concerns over the lack of competent drivers in the country and the poor working conditions of truckers.

The National Police’s Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim) arrested an employee of the Communications and Digital Ministry on Thursday for his alleged involvement in online gambling.

Jusuf Wanandi, cofounder and president director of the Post, said he hoped that the strategic investment and partnership would not only bolster the newspaper’s position as a leader in the country’s media landscape, but also enhance its ability to engage with more diverse communities and contribute to positive social impacts. 

The national weather agency has advised people to prepare for extreme heat in certain regions and extreme rain in others, at least until the weekend, as unusually high temperatures continue to prevail as the country transitions into the rainy season.

A recently published study suggests that more efforts are needed to protect and conserve Sumatran tigers in the Ulu Masen Ecosystem, including up to 700 rangers to secure the unprotected forest area against poachers.

Activists have called on the Indonesian government to commit to UN biodiversity agreements that acknowledge indigenous communities' contributions to conserving nature while protecting their rights to customary land.

"We just don't know when the next big one will be, but what we know is that we can be as ready as we can."

Officials’ “unnecessary demand” for academic titles might be related to the country’s Dutch colonial past, during which degrees were seen as a way to heighten one’s social status, said Arief Anshory Yusuf, head of Padjadjaran University’s council of professors.

Indonesia has been seeing an increase in the import of paper and plastic scrap to be processed domestically into raw materials for industrial production.

Muhammadiyah chairman Haedar Nashir has urged President Prabowo Subianto to address problems of plagiarism and the sale of academic degrees at the nation’s universities.

The University of Indonesia’s board of professors has formed a team to investigate the controversial awarding of a doctorate by the university’s School of Global and Strategic Studies to Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Bahlil Lahadia, given the inordinately short length of time he took to graduate.

Jokowi’s youngest son Kaesang announced the birth of his daughter on Tuesday in Jakarta.

The Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) is scaling up efforts to clamp down on the illicit trade of prescription skincare products amid growing concerns from the public about the impact on health.

Producing the wood pellets and chips used for "co-fire" coal plants risks driving deforestation, with natural forests cut down and replaced by quick-growing monocultures.

Jessica has persistently maintained her innocence since she was accused of lacing Wayan Mirna Salihin's coffee with cyanide in 2016.

The Constitutional Court has urged the police not to hesitate to charge parents who abduct their child from the child's legal guardian. 

The recent case of the sexual assault of a 17-year-old female student by her 57-year-old teacher in Gorontalo, Sulawesi, has shed light on how easily victims can fall into a double trap in today’s digital era, making it more difficult for them to recover from trauma and pain.

Health organizations say the government’s decision not to increase the cigarette excise tax for next year represents a major step backward in reducing tobacco consumption in the country.

More than 1,700 judges in the country are set to stage an unofficial strike starting on Monday to demand higher salaries and benefits, which have been unchanged since 2012.