The lesson here is about strategy: superior firepower can fail against an adversary built to survive.

Despite being met by resounding boos as he walked on to the pitch with FIFA president Gianni Infantino, Trump basked in the attention at the end of a tournament he has called "the most successful sporting event maybe in the history of the world."

How Indonesia can move from celebrating a flagship anti-poverty program to actually finding out whether it works.

Waving red and gold flags, Spaniards and fans from around the world watched as La Roja realised the dream of winning the trophy for the second time following an extra-time goal by Ferran Torres in New Jersey. 

Brent crude hit on Monday its highest price since June due to renewed fighting between the United States and Iran, while Asian equities were mixed as investors weighed the fallout of a prolonged Middle East war.

Faced with a plummeting rupiah and shifting global markets, Indonesia must halt its erratic policymaking and institutional erosion before it permanently loses the vital game of investor confidence.

Some institutional failures unfold not through scandal but procedure, with acts of sabotage dressed up in the language of good-faith inquiry and accountability.

The Jakarta-Tangerang toll road, which connects Jakarta with Banten and several important gateways to the city and country, has been plagued by continuous roadworks that have increased travel times on the road significantly for commuters.

As the TNI swaps rigid seniority for an ill-defined model of "meritocracy," the rhetoric of professional advancement increasingly serves as a convenient cover for dynastic privilege and political patronage.

President Prabowo Subianto has reaffirmed his administration's zero-tolerance stance on corruption, as public scrutiny intensified over the Attorney General's Office's (AGO) decision not to detain its former top prosecutor Febrie Adriansyah despite naming him a suspect in a corruption and money laundering case.

Despite losing sleep due to time differences between the country and World Cup hosting countries, soccer enthusiasts still crowd watch parties and community screenings to watch the quadrennial tournament.

Indonesia will never defeat corruption by simply locking up individual officials; it must dismantle the resilient, invisible networks that keep the system alive.

For much of the past week, Indonesia's two most powerful law enforcement institutions, the National Police and the Attorney General's Office (AGO), appeared locked in open confrontation, complete with dueling corruption probes and troops guarding a prosecutor's house. That confrontation now looks to be ending in retreat rather than resolution.

PT Pertamina Patra Niaga is seeking to normalize supply by extending operating hours to 24 hours and deploying 30 additional fuel tanker trucks to distribute fuel to gas stations across North Sumatra. 

As students return to school for the 2026/2027 academic year that started on July 13, state elementary schools in several regions have reported low enrollment. Some have enrolled as few as three new pupils, while others have no new pupils at all.

Airport operator PT Angkasa Pura Indonesia has prepared various facilities, both at airside and landside, to welcome the return of jet airliners and commercial flights to Bandung's airport.

Experts noted that the risk of banks getting too reliant on the funds “is real” and a dependency cycle might materialize as banks grow accustomed to the idea that the funds are a “permanent source of liquidity”.

The 39-year-old maestro Lionel Messi, almost certainly playing in his final World Cup game, was reduced to irrelevance as Spain took control early on against an Argentina team who committed a catalogue of cynical fouls throughout.

The Nongsa Changi Cable provides ultralow latency and the shortest and most direct connection between Nongsa in Batam, Riau Islands, and Changi in Singapore, for data center-to-data center connectivity.

This is not a time to let things slide, also because the stable outlook from S&P Global comes with the “expectation that the government continues to view its 3 percent annual deficit ceiling as an important policy anchor.”

The Abadi Masela project, a long-delayed liquefied natural gas (LNG) megaproject, finally broke ground on Thursday, marking a critical milestone for a development that promises to reshape Indonesia’s energy landscape.

The decision comes as several major tourist destinations have raised visa fees this year, including Japan, which introduced its first visa fee increase in nearly 50 years.

Five survivors from a passenger boat that sank off South Sulawesi, including a seven-year-old girl, have been rescued after floating at sea for three days, a rescue official said on Sunday.

In one photo from the shoot, Messi is seen helping Yamal's mother, Sheila Ebana, give the smiling five-month-old boy a bath in a blue plastic tub.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is planning to launch a fresh fundraising round at a valuation of about 500 billion yuan (US$74 billion) ahead of a potential mainland initial public offering, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

The US said it had completed an eighth straight night of attacks against Iran after earlier announcing that two US military personnel were killed in Jordan and another was missing ​following an Iranian attack.

The firing exercise was held to maintain the readiness of the Maritime Security Agency's (Bakamla) personnel and weapons.