A clash against the police broke out during the Free West Papua protest in Yogyakarta on Sunday night as a protester tried to raise the Morning Star (Bintang Kejora) flag.

The projected outcomes of two uncontested regional head elections indicate that the sole candidates have failed to win their races, a phenomenon experts say reflects signs of dissatisfaction with the dominance of political parties and their candidates.

The North Sumatra provincial administration-owned clean water company PDAM Tirtanadi's main pipeline in Sibolangit district, Deli Serdang regency, was buried following a landslide on Wednesday, disrupting clean water supply.  

Local firms remain cautious when considering employment numbers despite improvements in manufacturing activity.

Laying off workers would only increase the number of people without income, further worsening the economic situation, Kadin chairman Anindya Bakrie said. 

The National Police have fired the South Solok Police’s head of operations division, Adj. Comr. Dadang Iskandar, for fatally shooting one of his colleagues in the West Sumatra regency last month.

The BPS revealed on Monday that Indonesia's inflation rate dropped to 1.55 percent in November, just 0.05 percentage point above the lowest end of BI's target range, marking the slowest annual rise since July 2021.

General Elections Commission (KPU) offices in some regions began balloting over the weekend in several polling stations after floods forced them to postpone the Nov. 27 regional head elections.

Norway, Western Europe's biggest oil and gas producer, had planned to become one of the world's first countries to start handing out rights to tens of thousands of square kilometers of seabed.

"We require a commitment... that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty US Dollar or, they will face 100 percent Tariffs," Trump wrote on his Truth Social website, referring to the grouping that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and others.

Washington is expected to further curb exports to Chinese semiconductor toolmakers and sales of certain chipmaking equipment, including products manufactured in Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan, sources have told Reuters.

The President has said that a pilot program based on a per meal cost of Rp 10,000, around two-thirds the initial estimate of Rp 15,000, showed that the reduced budget could still provide quality meals during the first year of his flagship program.

The UFA 490 submarine was spotted 148 kilometres (92 miles) west of Cape Calavite on Thursday, the Philippine military said. 

Indonesia could become the next country to legislate a ban on social media use for minors, following rising concerns regarding the technology's impact on children's mental health.

Asia's largest manufacturing economies stepped up activity in November, with China's factories extending their recovery driven in part by Beijing's stimulus and a rush to export, though weak patches in other parts of the region pointed to some challenges.

Indonesia's economy has shown strong resilience in mitigating the impacts of global spillovers with internationally recognized performance.

Sales of arms and military services by the world's 100 largest arms companies totalled $632 billion in 2023, up 4.2 percent, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

Media including The Globe and Mail newspaper and public broadcaster CBC accused OpenAI of breaching copyrights by "scraping large swaths of content" and profiting from the use of this content, according to a statement.

The railway, which will stretch more than 1,500 kilometres (930 miles) from the capital in the north to the country's business hub in the south, will reduce the current journey time by rail from 30 hours to around five.

"Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted," he said in a statement released by the White House.

An "impact hub" focused on ending maternal mortality through holistic, flexible and localized partnership schemes could offer a global solution to achieving SDG 3.

The IESR estimates the government would need around US$1.2 trillion worth of investment in order for the country to meet all of its electricity needs from clean energy and billions more in order to retire its coal plants early.

My recent experience revealed another side of collectivism, one that was deeply human and profoundly comforting.

With the final results of the country’s simultaneous regional elections not expected until Dec. 16, the quick count data offers a glimpse into the shifting dynamics of power, particularly between the governing coalition of President Prabowo Subianto, including former president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).

The foreign minister addressed some lingering concerns in his high-profile debut at home on Saturday, outlining the many ways the Prabowo administration’s foreign policy starts at home.

As the tensions continue to worsen, there is an ever-increasing risk of an at-sea conflict between Beijing and Manila.

Our neighbors have the right to hear about the actual situation from Prabowo himself.