Press freedom in Indonesia has once again come under attack from the corridors of power, with the Agriculture Ministry becoming the latest to allegedly employ intimidation tactics in a dispute with a critical outlet that had already been mediated by the Press Council.

As the leader of a prominent middle power, President Prabowo showed that he was also a magnet for international leaders. 

Strong shipments of processed goods and higher-value exports helped maintain Indonesia’s trade surplus in September, while global energy prices, including coal prices, weakened.

As of Friday, nearly 300 reports of vehicle breakdowns potentially connected to Pertalite had been recorded across at least seven regencies and cities in East Java, 99 percent of which involved motorcycles.

Food prices rose 6.6 percent in October after a 6.44 percent increase in September.

Guinness, the world's No. 1 stout beer, strengthens its presence in Indonesia through the official launch of Guinness Imported Draught.

MODENA and Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison have entered a strategic partnership to deliver new telecommunications services that will be part of Seamless, an integrated ecosystem built by MODENA to support an end-to-end smart lifestyle through the synergy of electronic devices, connectivity and digital services.

Thirteen of the victims were children aged between eight and 17 years old, Adj. Sr. Comr. Alfredo Agustinus Rumbiak, the police chief of the remote Nduga region, told Reuters. 

The purchase of military equipment has picked up since Prabowo became defense minister in 2019 and then president last year, with multiple deals struck for new fighter jets as well as submarines.

Janice Tjen surged 29 spots up the WTA rankings after the win, climbing from No. 82 to No. 53, a timely boost as she gears up for the Australian Open in January.

Factory activity in Indonesia saw a modest improvement in October thanks to rising new orders, purchasing activity and employment, according to a monthly survey published by S&P Global.  

The Indonesian Air Force's first Airbus A400M heavy transport aircraft arrived at Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force Base in East Jakarta on Monday.

Traces of radioactive Caesium-137 were detected in the 23 containers in Indonesia, which "rejected and reexported" them back to the Philippines, an official in Jakarta said Friday.

The question is not whether the UN has failed, but whether humanity can afford a world without it.

Asked by an AFP reporter aboard Air Force One if he was considering US troops on the ground in Nigeria or air strikes, Trump replied: "Could be, I mean, a lot of things -- I envisage a lot of things." 

The rise of agentic AI, or automous artificial intelligence systems that can make decisions and act with little to no human prompts or supervision, signals a need to revisit and rethink the practical, legal and ethical aspects of cybersecurity frameworks.

Jakarta welcomed back the international pop quartet over the weekend with pink fanfare, as the main stadium at Gelora Bung Karno Sports Complex filled with the voices of both Blackpink and Blinks singing their hearts out. 

On a day when Facebook-parent Meta's share price plunged on the heels of disappointing quarterly earnings, demand for its bonds was reportedly four times greater than supply in a market keen to hold the social networking titan's debt.

Trump was interviewed Friday by CBS's "60 Minutes" program, his first sit-down with the broadcaster since it agreed to a $16 million settlement with him.

Today, the currents shaping the relationship between the Indo-Pacific’s two largest democracies are not trade winds, but the terabits flowing through fiber-optic cables and the instant signals of digital payment systems.

A deal under which Islamabad will take delivery of eight Hangor-class submarines by 2028 is "progressing smoothly," Admiral Naveed Ashraf told the Global Times in an interview published on Sunday, adding the submarines would boost Pakistan's ability to patrol the North Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean.

The eight key members of the OPEC+ alliance, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, on Sunday said they had agreed a further slight hike to their oil production.

Changes to the international order have reinforced authoritarian regimes. 

Rewriting history is not inherently wrong, but when it is done opaquely with an aim to benefit the powers that be in today's regime, it not only negates facts but also the very journey our nation and people trod to get where we are.

President Prabowo Subianto and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung have expressed their hope to continue the two countries’ defense cooperation, including on existing collaboration to develop fighter jets, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Gyeongju.

ProJo leader Budi Arie Setiadi has said he intends to join President Prabowo Subianto's Gerindra Party, in a move that cements one of former president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s biggest supporter groups with the Prabowo administration.

Activists and female lawmakers have lauded a ruling from the Constitutional Court that requires the House of Representatives to have at least 30 percent female representation across all of its internal bodies, in hopes the decision will help improve the gender balance in the legislative structure.