https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/09/24/asean-gets-first-shared-supercomputer-in-indonesia https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/24/2026_09_24_180031_1790237465.jpg A closer look at a supercomputer, on Wednesday. BRIN and the South Korean delegation to ASEAN gives a tour to representatives of ASEAN member states of the HPC facility in Cibinong, West Java. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/09/24/house-approves-kai-plan-to-import-used-japanese-trains-as-local-production-lags https://img.jakpost.net/c/2018/01/12/2018_01_12_38816_1515742829.jpg A Commuter Line train passes waiting passengers on Jan. 12, 2018, as it pulls into Cilebut Station in Bogor, West Java. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/09/24/indonesia-races-to-seal-eu-trade-deal-as-tariff-incentive-expires https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/24/2026_09_24_180020_1790214052.jpeg President Prabowo Subianto instructed his cabinet on Sept. 22, 2026, to expedite the implementation of the Indonesia-European Union Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IEU-CEPA) at the Presidential Palace. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/09/24/indonesias-nickel-curbs-struggle-to-convince-markets https://img.jakpost.net/c/2024/07/23/2024_07_23_152700_1721712927.jpg Smoke billows from nickel smelting plants at the Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park (IWIP) in Lelilef, North Maluku, on July 7, 2024. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/09/24/xi-says-china-us-should-be-partners-rather-than-rivals https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/24/2026_09_24_180029_1790225436.jpg US President Donald Trump reacts after a B1 bomber flew past during the national anthems while he greeted Chinese President Xi Jinping upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on September 23, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/09/24/new-us-tariffs-on-russian-oil-no-issue-for-indonesia-airlangga-says https://img.jakpost.net/c/2023/07/11/2023_07_11_140179_1689068019.JPG The Iranian-flagged very large crude carrier (VLCC) MT Arman 114 (left) and the Cameroon-flagged crude oil tanker MT S Tinos conduct an illicit ship-to-ship cargo transfer near the North Natuna Sea in Riau Islands province on July 7, 2023, in this handout photo released on July 11. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/09/24/nepal-floods-obliterate-final-excuses-for-climate-inaction https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/28/2026_08_28_179087_1787884320.jpg An aerial view shows houses lying deluged in sludge after flash floods at Devighat, Bidur municipality, along the confluence of the Trishuli and Tadi rivers in Nepal's Nuwakot district on Aug. 27, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/main-story/2026/09/24/radio-still-gives-you-something-an-algorithm-cant https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/23/2026_09_23_179995_1790146123.png https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/23/2026_09_23_179996_1790146124.png https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/24/dozens-of-homesick-students-leave-north-sumatra-community-schools https://img.jakpost.net/c/2025/07/13/2025_07_13_164426_1752358485.jpg Workers set a whiteboard in a classroom at a Sekolah Rakyat (community school) site in Medan, North Sumatra, on July 11, 2025. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/09/24/labor-bill-must-protect-workers-not-just-employment-relationships https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/06/24/2026_06_24_176971_1782273650.JPG Two 'ojek' (online motorcycle transportation) drivers wait in traffic on June 24, 2026 with passengers wearing the helmets of Gojek and Grab in the Kampung Melayu Besar area of South Jakarta. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/24/167-psychiatric-patients-evacuated-as-haze-worsens-in-south-kalimantan https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/23/2026_09_23_180001_1790162938.jpg Firefighters extinguish forest and peatland fires on Monday in Banjar regency, South Kalimantan. Toxic haze has shrouded parts of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore for weeks as authorities struggles to contain fires that have scorched large tracts of Kalimantan and Sumatra, with the smoke drifting across the region. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/09/24/analysis-whoosh-or-noose-uncertain-future-of-high-speed-rail-project https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/24/2026_09_24_180022_1790216668.jpg A train of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Rail (HSR) service, which operates as Whoosh, arrives at a platform on March 15, 2026, at Padalarang Station in West Bandung regency, West Java. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/09/24/el-nino-could-cause-19300-extra-heat-deaths-in-indonesia https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/07/29/2026_07_29_178100_1785328077.jpg A stork perches on a plastic bucket stranded on the lakebed as water levels drop in Jakarta on July 29, 2026, due to the impact of El Nino, which has brought a prolonged dry season and triggered extreme drought, threatening food security in various regions of Indonesia. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/09/24/what-pisa-keeps-telling-us-about-foundations https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/05/05/2026_05_05_175382_1777950498.jpg Designing the future: Students attend a visual communication design training session on April 13, 2026, at Saint Joseph Catholic vocational high school in Jakarta. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/09/24/australia-says-openai-agent-hacked-into-government-website https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/22/2026_09_22_179968_1790077537.jpg Public backtrack: The logo of United States technology company OpenAI appears on a smartphone in this illustration created on June 11, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/09/24/oecd-lifts-2026-global-growth-forecast-to-29-despite-mideast-war https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/24/2026_09_24_180021_1790214315.jpg This photograph shows the Celestial Sphere, also known as the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Sphere, at the United Nations Offices in Geneva, on Sept. 21, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/culture/2026/09/24/ex-google-safety-chief-warns-ai-could-harm-children-more-than-social-media-did https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/03/26/2026_03_26_174028_1774514895.jpg Children use portable digital devices in Jakarta on May 4, 2025. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/09/24/xi-arrives-in-us-to-personal-trump-welcome https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/24/2026_09_24_180019_1790211990.jpg US President Donald Trump and US First Lady Melania Trump greet Chinese President Xi Jinping and China’s First Lady Peng Liyuan upon their arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on September 23, 2026. Xi is visiting the United States from September 23 to 25. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/09/24/the-sensible-roles-and-harsh-realities-of-kri-sriwijaya https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/21/2026_09_21_179933_1789980090.jpg The newly acquired aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi (left), now KRI Sriwijaya, is accompanied by KRI Brawijaya (center) and KRI Prabu Siliwangi as they sail past Bangka waters on Sept. 17, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/24/respiratory-problems-climb-past-170000-cases-in-indonesia https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/21/2026_08_21_178895_1787312877.jpg Motorists drive with headlights on a haze-shrouded road in Palangkaraya city, Central Kalimantan on August 20, 2026, as smoke originating from widespread forest and land fires has significantly reduced visibility and degraded air quality across the province. Indonesia's government says over 100,000 hectares burned in the first half of the year. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/24/rspo-integrity-tested-as-wildfires-hit-orangutan-habitat https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/23/2026_09_23_180002_1790162938.jpg Smoke billows from burning oil palm and areca palm plantations on Aug. 25 in East Tanjung Jabung regency, Jambi. https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/23/2026_09_23_180001_1790162938.jpg Firefighters extinguish forest and peatland fires on Monday in Banjar regency, South Kalimantan. Toxic haze has shrouded parts of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore for weeks as authorities struggle to contain fires that have scorched large tracts of Kalimantan and Sumatra, with the smoke drifting across the region. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/24/gibran-faces-fresh-challenge-over-eligibility-as-vp https://img.jakpost.net/c/2025/08/15/2025_08_15_165450_1755225467.JPG Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka gestures before President Prabowo Subianto delivers his annual State of the Nation address during the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) plenary meeting on Aug. 15, 2025, at the Senayan Legislative Complex in Jakarta ahead of the country's 80th Independence Day. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/09/24/dont-waste-indonesias-macroeconomic-opportunity https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/19/2026_09_19_179883_1789834391.JPG Finance Minister Suahasil Nazara (center left) speaks at the APBN Kita press conference in Jakarta on Sept. 19, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/24/crew-member-from-missing-anak-krakatau-boat-identified https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/23/2026_09_23_180004_1790167185.jpg A journalist takes photo of a picture showing Surakman, a crewmember of the boat Arupadhatu 1 that went missing while carrying journalists covering the eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau in the Sunda Strait, during a press briefing on Sept. 23 at the Banten Police headquarters in Serang, Banten. The police identified a body found on Enggano Island, Bengkulu, as Surakman following DNA identification. https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/23/2026_09_23_180005_1790167185.jpg Members of a search and rescue team, wearing protective suits, transfer a body bag containing a victim from the vessel MV Virgo Transport 8 onto an ambulance from a helicopter on Sept. 22 at Syamsudin Noor Air Force Base in Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan. The Virgo Transport 8 was carrying 213 passengers and 30 crew when it lost contact with its shipping company after departing from Surabaya in East Java to Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/09/24/learning-first https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/08/2026_09_08_179531_1788849262.jpg A junior high school teacher conducts an online lesson in an empty classroom after local authorities mandated remote learning due to haze from land and forest fires in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, on Sept. 7, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/24/batam-residents-protest-data-centers-amid-water-crisis https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/14/2026_08_14_178672_1786700583.jpeg People walk near DayOne data center at Nongsa Digital Park (NDP) in Batam city, Riau Islands, on July 20. Batam has attracted at least 16 new data centers in various stages, despite limited utility infrastrucutre of clean water and electricity. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/09/23/indonesia-puts-peace-un-reform-global-south-at-center-of-unga-agenda https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/23/2026_09_23_180000_1790157917.jpeg Foreign Minister Sugiono attends the opening of the general debate on Sept. 22 at the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York, the United States. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/23/prosecutors-demand-8-5-year-prison-sentence-for-suspended-pati-regent-sudewo https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/06/17/2026_06_17_176773_1781702458.jpg Suspended Pati Regent Sudewo greets supporters after attending the opening trial in his corruption case on June 15 at the Corruption Court in Semarang, Central Java. Prosecutors from the Corruption Eradication Commission accused Sudewo of accepting bribes and gratuities totaling 3.8 billion rupiah (about $233,000) related to railway projects at the Transportation Ministry while serving as a member of parliament from 2021 to 2023, and of allegedly extorting 2.6 billion rupiah (about $160,000) in the recruitment of village officials in Pati regency from 2025 to 2026 while serving as regent. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/09/23/soe-lending-push-raises-concentration-risks-for-state-banks-sp https://img.jakpost.net/c/2025/11/05/2025_11_05_168606_1762326211.JPG High-rise buildings are pictured in Jakarta’s business district on Nov. 4, 2025. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/23/inconsistencies-mar-indonesia-centric-history-books https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/23/2026_09_23_180003_1790166977.jpg Culture Minister Fadli Zon speaks during a media briefing on the launch of Sejarah Indonesia: Dinamika Kebangsaan dalam Arus Global (Indonesian History: National Dynamics in Global Currents) in Jakarta on Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. The Culture Ministry launched the first five volumes of the 10-volume series, which are available for free download through its digital platform, pustakabudaya.id. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/23/one-killed-another-missing-after-flash-floods-hit-west-sumatra https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/22/2026_09_22_179966_1790076712.jpg A resident walks past debris following a flash flood in, Solok regency, West Sumatra, on Sept 22, 2026. The flash flood, which struck a day prior, killed one, and injured four others. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/09/23/bi-holds-key-interest-rate-at-5-75-percent https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/06/15/2026_06_15_176712_1781536780.jpg The Bank Indonesia logo adorns the gate of the central bank's headquarters in Jakarta in this undated photograph. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/09/23/gas-supply-drops-to-78-in-september-industry-says https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/06/12/2026_06_12_176614_1781256221.jpg A worker checks machinery at factory of the ceramics firm, PT Arwana Citramulia, in Serang, Banten, in this undated photograph. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/09/23/dollar-at-2-month-highs-as-markets-weigh-rate-hikes-iran-diplomacy https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/23/2026_09_23_179994_1790145005.JPG A pedestrian walks in front of a stock quotation board displaying the level of Japan's 10-year government bonds and the exchange rate between the US dollar and Japanese Yen, outside a brokerage in Tokyo, on Sept. 18, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/09/23/cambodia-no-safe-haven-for-scams-prime-minister-tells-anti-fraud-summit https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/23/2026_09_23_179992_1790139114.JPG Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet delivers a speech at the opening of an international conference on combating online scams in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, September 23, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/09/23/taiwan-human-rights-red-lines-for-china-ambassador-says-ahead-of-trump-xi-meeting https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/23/2026_09_23_179991_1790137982.JPG Members of a US military honor guard rehearse an arrival ceremony with a Chinese flag and US flag ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit next week with US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, US, September 16, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/09/23/typhoon-dujuan-leaves-7-dead-in-japan-from-landslides-flooding https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/23/2026_09_23_179989_1790127673.jpg Flooding inundates a park as heavy rain falls amid weather patterns due to Typhoon Dujuan in Ichikawa city, Chiba prefecture on September 21, 2026. Typhoon Dujuan forced the cancellation of at least 275 flights in Japan on September 21 and prompted warnings of potentially record-breaking rainfall as the storm nears Tokyo. https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/23/2026_09_23_179990_1790127673.jpg A pedestrian holds on to her umbrella amid strong winds and heavy rainfall in Chiba on September 21, 2026. Hundreds of flights were cancelled and more than one million people were under evacuation advisories in Japan on September 21 as Typhoon Dujuan approached Tokyo, potentially bringing record rainfall. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/09/23/govt-grants-bayan-additional-coal-quota-after-haji-isam-buys-stake https://img.jakpost.net/c/2025/02/18/2025_02_18_160340_1739872951.jpg Piles of coal are seen on barges in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, on Aug. 16, 2022. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/09/23/trump-greenland-denmark-sign-deal-in-bid-to-end-arctic-standoff https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/23/2026_09_23_179988_1790126130.JPG US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen as Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen reacts, as they attend a trilateral signing event regarding a deal on Greenland's security, during the 81st United Nations General Assembly, in New York City, US, September 22, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/09/23/diversification-not-alignment-reading-indonesias-russia-tilt https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/17/2026_09_17_179809_1789626414.jpg President Prabowo Subianto and Russia's President Vladimir Putin shake hands ahead of a meeting on Thursday on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia.