As Indonesia's spots at Paris 2024 start filling up, the country's sports associations, athletes and Olympic committee are all gearing up for the world's greatest multisport spectacle.

Hutama Karya has been tasked with building a 50 km road section connecting Mamberamo and Elelim in the Papua Highlands, which it said would be funded through a public-private partnership scheme.

The agency cut its rating from AA- to A+, and said the outlook was negative.

"New album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. Out now," she wrote on her Instagram account, ending the announcement with a heart emoji.

In a statement issued on Friday, Prabowo also urged his supporters not to stage protests in front of the Constitutional Court building ahead of or during the reading out of the verdict on Monday.

Mainland China has some of the world's most extensive internet censorship, with web users unable to access everything from Google to many foreign apps without workarounds such as a virtual private network (VPN).

Bank Indonesia (BI) has issued a statement that seeks to alleviate concerns about a weakening rupiah as the United States dollar is propped up by the American economy as well as by Iran and Israel trading blows.

"The foreign source of the incident has not been confirmed. We have not received any external attack, and the discussion leans more towards infiltration than attack," the Iranian official said on condition of anonymity.

The Asian economy is projected to remain resilient in the future, in spite of the global economic conditions that are challenged by current geopolitical turmoil.

Foreign minister Retno said the President had met with her Chinese counterpart on Thursday to discuss economic cooperation between their two countries, including Whoosh and the joint feasibility study initiated late last year on extending the HSR track to Surabaya.

NBC and CNN, citing sources familiar with the matter and a US official, respectively, said Israel had provided Washington with pre-notification of the strike.

The head of a pro-Prabowo group said on Thursday that the president-elect had asked supporters in a telephone call not to hold their rally planned for Friday and urged them to respect the judicial process.

The Densus 88 antiterror police unit detained on Tuesday seven JI-linked suspects in Central Sulawesi, following the January arrests of at least a dozen terror suspects in Central and East Java.

"We urge Australians in both Israel or the Occupied Palestinian Territories to depart if it's safe to do so," the Department of Foreign Affairs said in a travel advisory update.

Suu Kyi has been detained by the Myanmar military since it overthrew her government in a 2021 coup. The 78-year-old Nobel laureate was held under house arrest for a total of 15 years under a previous junta.

Prabowo thanked Beijing for a “very pleasant reception” earlier this month, a trip analysts believe was motivated by China seeking to more closely align with Indonesia in a contest of influence with the US.

In a statement issued late Thursday, the foreign ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations urged "all parties for an immediate cessation of violence" in Myanmar, which has been roiled by conflict since the military seized power in a February 2021 coup.

The hub has struggled to clear a backlog of flights in the aftermath of heavy rain that swamped the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday.

Several drones "have been successfully shot down by the country's air defence, there are no reports of a missile attack for now," Iran's space agency spokesman Hossein Dalirian said on X.

The grim warning by Bill Burns came as the US House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Saturday on a $61 billion aid package for Ukraine that has been held up for months by Republican lawmakers allied with Donald Trump as he seeks reelection.

Israel had warned it would hit back after Iran fired hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel over the weekend. Most of them were intercepted. 

Asian shares and bond yields sank on Friday while the dollar, yen, oil and gold surged after reports of a sharp escalation in Middle East hostilities.

Further depreciation of the rupiah would eventually put our inflation rate and economic growth at great risk, given the impact of imported inflation.

Aris Toharisman, secretary-general of the Indonesia Sugar Association (AGI), does not rule out the possibility of rising prices for the imported commodity, even though global supply pressure remains manageable.

The Constitutional Court is enjoying an uptick in public confidence ahead of the highly anticipated rulings on the legal challenges to the result of the February presidential election, according to a survey released on Thursday by Lembaga Survey Indonesia (LSI).

Indonesian manufacturers are feeling the pinch, as a weakening rupiah exchange rate against the United States dollar and a surge in oil prices lead to higher input costs for local industry.

MRT Jakarta is revisiting the rail extension plan to South Tangerang after the notion was put to the back burner because of funding issues, as the extension requires financial commitment from local administrations.