The State Department said it green-lighted a $3.8-billion sale of 30 Apache attack helicopters to Israel, which has agreed to a fragile ceasefire in Gaza.

The government has announced plans to spend Rp 13 trillion (US$773 million) on stimulus measures aimed at boosting travel and consumption during the upcoming festive period.

The government suspended Grok from operating in Indonesia three weeks ago, citing the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool.

US-built F-35 fighters will have their Singapore Airshow debut amid geopolitical challenges while over 1,000 companies expected at Asia's largest air show including manufacturers and airlines.

The US government entered what is expected to be a brief shutdown on Saturday after Congress failed to approve a deal to keep a wide swath of operations funded ahead of a midnight deadline.

At least 74 political prisoners aged between 18 and 35 have died in detention since the coup, according to previously unreported data from the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.

Around 283,000 hectares of forest, four times the size of Jakarta, were lost throughout 2025 to make way for various extractive businesses across the country, according to the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi).

Observations show an emerging galaxy cluster containing at least 66 potential member galaxies, with a total cluster mass of about 20 trillion stars the size of our sun, dating to about one billion years after the Big Bang event that initiated the universe roughly 13.8 billion years ago.

The Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) dominated all phases of the vote, winning an overwhelming majority in Myanmar's two legislative chambers, securing majority seats in both the lower and upper houses, according to results released on Thursday and Friday.

From rubber boats to trucks, workers are forced to make their way through floods on days of heavy rains in the city as their employers often do not provide days off in the event of extreme weather.

Starlink collects vast amounts of user data, spanning location information, credit card information, contact information and user IP addresses.

Entry and exit "will be permitted in coordination with Egypt, following prior security clearance of individuals by Israel, and under the supervision of the European Union mission", Israel has announced.

Protesting the surge and the tactics used by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), several thousand people gathered in downtown Minneapolis in sub-freezing temperatures, including families with small kids, elderly couples and young activists.

Myanmar has denied accusations of genocide and said the 2017 offensive that forced at least 730,000 Rohingya from their homes and into neighboring Bangladesh was a legitimate counterterrorist operation.

The BBC, citing a statement from Creative Artists Agency, reported she died on Friday at her home in Los Angeles following a brief illness.

Nipah spreads mainly through products contaminated by infected bats, such as fruit, and can be fatal in up to 75 percent of cases, but it does not spread easily between people.

At least 20 more people are still missing, as bad weather had hindered the search, according to the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas).

The OTO 127-millimeter Vulcano main naval gun weighs some 33 tonnes and can fire about 30 rounds per minute with a maximum range of 100 kilometers. 

Global stocks edged higher while the dollar rose and the price of gold plunged after Trump announced his pick of Warsh, who markets perceive as someone who would support lower rates but who would stop well short of the more aggressive easing associated with some of the other potential nominees.

Kuantan Singingi regency has some 5,000 hectares of former illegal gold mines in all districts but only 4,819 ha of rice fields. 

The fugitive, identified as 39-year-old Syalihin GP, was arrested by the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) in May last year together with eight other suspects for allegedly trafficking 214 kilograms of marijuana.

The government has set a 6 percent growth target for 2026, banking on accelerated public spending and tighter fiscal-monetary coordination to generate momentum, in line with President Prabowo Subianto’s ambition to lift economic expansion to 8 percent by the end of his term in 2029. The challenge, however, lies less in ambition than in execution: whether these policy tools can deliver real growth in an economy where household demand remains fragile and investment responses uneven.

It is not immediately clear whether the resignations of five high-ranking officials at the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) and the Financial Services Authority (OJK) were voluntary or forced. Senior minister Airlangga Hartarto said President Prabowo Subianto is monitoring the stock exchange following the market meltdown. 

Transportation and logistics are among the sectors hit hardest by severe congestion and delays that overwhelm the city every year anew.

A plenary meeting led by the group’s supreme leader Miftachul Akhyar also agreed to revoke the leadership reshuffle that took place during the internal feud between November and December, and to move forward the timeline of the organization’s national congress.

A ministry tasked with safeguarding core elements of education receives far less state funding than a presidential pet program, which endures oversight failure from the beginning.

The abrupt revocation of mining permits and the planned transfer of assets to state firms have raised concerns of "nationalization", undermining legal certainty and threatening to erode Indonesia’s appeal to foreign capital.