This year's prize represented a "gross misappropriation" of funds and the "facilitation of war crimes" under Swedish law, according to the complaint posted by WikiLeaks on social media.

The US president has imposed painful import tariffs on countries around the world in an attempt to boost his country's manufacturers and reduce its colossal trade deficit.

State revenue reached just 82.1 percent of the full-year outlook in November, down 5.67 percent from the same period last year, while the budget deficit stood at 2.35 percent of GDP, noticeably higher than October's 2.02 percent, though the finance minister said this was "within manageable limits".

The world-first policy would ban imports into the EU of cocoa, palm oil and other commodities linked to forest destruction, requiring foreign exporters of these commodities to provide due diligence statements proving their products did not contribute to forest destruction.

The pipeline will link gas sources in Java and Sumatra to key industrial zones across Aceh, North Sumatra and Riau, and is scheduled for completion by the end of 2027.

Five of Bali’s nine cities and regencies have been hit by flooding since Dec. 11, the provincial Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) said, after days of persistent heavy rain triggered by cyclone seed 93S.

Head of the Medan Tourism Agency, Odi Aggia Batubara, said the proposed event, known as the Year-End Festival, sparked criticism from residents who viewed it as insensitive to the thousands of people still affected by the recent disasters.

US consumer inflation slowed unexpectedly in November, delayed government data showed Thursday, although levels remained higher than earlier in the year before President Donald Trump's tariffs flowed through the economy.

The Jakarta chapter of the Legal Aid Foundation of the Indonesian Women’s Association for Justice (LBH APIK Jakarta) received 1,212 reports of violence cases throughout 2025, a 60-percent increase compared to the previous year.

President Prabowo Subianto has pledged to accelerate temporary housing construction and infrastructure repairs in West Sumatra during his fourth visit to disaster-hit regions in the northern part of Sumatra Island.

The administration of Prabowo Subianto is reforming the disbursement of fuel and electricity subsidies to improve state budget efficiency. These subsidies have long been criticized for disproportionately benefiting upper-middle-class households, who consume more energy, rather than the poor and vulnerable groups they are intended to support. As a result, the government now aims to better target subsidy distribution and reduce its long-standing fiscal burden. The urgency to optimize subsidy spending has also grown amid rising expenditures for several major government programs.

In its ruling, the Constitutional Court asserted the royalties for commercial live performances should be paid by the party organizing the performances, rather than the performers themselves, either through a rights management agency or directly to songwriters or rights holders.

Members of the ruling coalition are open to President Prabowo Subianto’s suggestion of scrapping the prevailing direct elections for regional heads, despite strong opposition from pro-democracy advocates who warned that would undercut democratic accountability and risk reversing hard-won reforms.

The Bondi Beach attack is a warning that Jewish around the world are becoming vulnerable with the rise of antisemitism.

Under the new formula, provincial minimum wages would rise by between 5.3 percent and 7.3 percent, an increase employers deem too steep.

Police confiscated a total of 23 cubic meters of timber products from illegal logging activities in two separate cases in the regencies of Kuantan Singingi and Rokan Hulu, 

The Taiwan arms sale announcement is the second under US President Donald Trump's current administration, and comes as Beijing ramps up its military and diplomatic pressure against Taiwan, whose government rejects Beijing's sovereignty claims.

They join tech boss Michael Dell and his wife Susan in contributing to the so-called "Trump accounts," part of the "One Big Beautiful Bill" that the Republican president pushed through Congress in July.

The Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) has temporarily suspended trading in the shares of pulp producer PT Toba Pulp Lestari (INRU) following a government-ordered halt to its operations. 

WBD has urged shareholders to reject a hostile takeover bid from Paramount Skydance, in favor of a deal offered by streaming giant Netflix.

Earlier this week, US President Donald Trump ordered a complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers attempting to leave Venezuelan waters, and those arriving, as Washington massed troops and warships in the region.

Some of the projects set to commence include a US$24 billion aluminium smelter, refinery facilities for bio-aviation fuel in Central Java and a bioethanol facility in East Java.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said the aim of the meeting is to convince Thailand and Cambodia to stop escalating tensions along the disputed border

The Philippine coastguard said over the weekend that three Filipino fishermen were injured and two fishing vessels damaged when Chinese coastguard ships cut their anchor lines and fired water cannon near the Sabina Shoal on Friday, actions the Philippine defense secretary denounced as "dangerous" and "inhumane".

In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent: a prototype of a machine capable of producing the cutting-edge semiconductor chips that power artificial intelligence, smartphones and weapons central to Western military dominance.

With the world’s attention turning increasingly toward South Asia, the National University of Singapore (NUS) has launched a new master’s programme that studies a region at the centre of global conversation.

A coastal dolphin species that went viral after its unusual appearance in the Batang Lubuh River in Rokan Hulu regency has been found dead a little over a week after it was first spotted.