https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/19/tame-sumatran-elephant-dies-in-riau-13th-this-year https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/18/2026_09_18_179851_1789731636.jpg A mahout inspects the body of Diego, a 17-year-old tame male Sumatran elephant, on Sept. 16 at the Minas Elephant Training Center in Riau. Diego died from a suspected chronic infection of the digestive tract, marking the 13th reported Sumatran elephant death across the country this year. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/09/19/trump-says-cnn-politico-ms-now-banned-from-white-house https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/19/2026_09_19_179874_1789797072.jpg US President Donald Trump takes questions during a press briefing in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 25, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/09/19/saudi-civil-defense-sends-all-clear-after-alerts-issued-for-capital-riyadh https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/19/2026_09_19_179873_1789795711.JPG View of a damaged building after Saudi Arabia's civil defense said a Yemeni living in Saudi Arabia had been killed by debris from a drone intercepted over the western city of Taif in Saudi Arabia on Sept. 17, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/19/danantara-breaks-ground-on-rp-2-8-trillion-waste-to-energy-project-in-bogor https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/18/2026_09_18_179847_1789729275.jpg Danantara Chief Investment Officer Pandu Patria Sjahrir, Coordinating Food Minister Zulkifli Hasan and Environment Minister Moh Jumhur Hidayat break ground on the Bogor Raya 1 Waste-to-Energy (PSEL) plant on Thursday in Galuga Village, Bogor Regency, West Java. The Rp 2.8 trillion (US$157 million) project is meant to process over 500,000 tonnes of waste annually or around 45 percent of total waste in Bogor city and regency https://www.thejakartapost.com/culture/2026/09/19/abell-octovans-solo-debut-explores-personal-reflection https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/19/2026_09_19_179872_1789788995.JPG Art in solitude: Artist Abell Octovan explains his work We Are All Alone on Friday during his debut solo exhibition, Am I An Artist, at JPLive! Space in The Jakarta Post Building, Central Jakarta. Organized by Murai Art Projects, the exhibition runs through Oct. 5. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/09/19/asean-must-navigate-us-china-ai-rivalry-panelists https://img.jakpost.net/c/2024/10/28/2024_10_28_156683_1730091662.jpg An illustrative picture shows icons of Google's artificial intelligence (AI) app BardAI, or ChatBot, OpenAI's app ChatGPT and other AI apps, on July 12, 2023, on a smartphone screen in Oslo. https://www.thejakartapost.com/culture/2026/09/19/meet-kimpul-indonesias-forgotten-tuber-gone-viral https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/19/2026_09_19_179871_1789787304.jpg Humble tuber: Fresh cocoyam, known as 'kimpul' or Belitung taro in Indonesia, is seen in this photo. Long eaten as a local carbohydrate and rice alternative, 'kimpul' is low in fat and has a low glycemic index, while also containing dietary fiber, resistant starch, minerals, vitamin B3 and bioactive compounds. https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/17/2026_09_17_179819_1789657657.jpeg Contemporary cocoyam: Suratini, a content creator known as “Ibu Kimpul” for reviving the use of kimpul (Xanthosoma sagittifolium), also called cocoyam or Belitung taro, shares various dishes she has created in her Instagram posts (from left): a drink with cocoyam boba pearls, fresh kimpul and cocoyam cream soup. https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/17/2026_09_17_179817_1789655883.jpg Hardian “Seto” Eko Nurseto, a food anthropologist from Padjadjaran University. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/19/another-150-indonesians-deported-from-malaysia-to-batam https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/18/2026_09_18_179838_1789712414.jpeg An official from the Indonesian Consulate General in Johor Bahru (left) speaks to Indonesians being repatriated on board a ferry during a trip from Pasir Gudang international ferry terminal in Johor Bahru to Batam Center international ferry terminal in Batam city, Riau Islands, on Sept. 15, 2026. Malaysia deported 150 Indonesian who had completed their immigration administration process for overstaying and working illegally. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/09/19/us-and-denmark-reach-deal-on-greenland-trump-says https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/19/2026_09_19_179870_1789783563.jpg Birds fly over houses overshadowed by the mountain in Nuuk, Greenland, on March 10, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/09/19/gemini-hacked-three-companies-in-first-known-breakout-by-googles-ai https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/02/05/2026_02_05_172241_1770269593.jpg A pedestrian walks by a sign at Google headquarters on Feb. 4, 2026, in Mountain View, California, United States. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/09/19/prabowo-accepts-assistance-from-malaysia-to-contain-wildfires https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/03/27/2026_03_27_174086_1774618798.JPG President Prabowo Subianto (right) greets Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim upon the latter's arrival at the Presidential Palace complex in Jakarta on March 27, 2026. Both leaders have a private meeting to discuss latest geopolitical developments, particularly the impact of the United States-Israeli war against Iran on the Southeast Asian countries. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/09/19/as-iran-war-grinds-on-trump-to-face-skeptical-world-leaders-at-un https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/18/2026_09_18_179853_1789733981.JPG People drive past a billboard about the Strait of Hormuz, on a building in Tehran, Iran, on September 16, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/09/19/analysis-indonesias-disaster-budget-faces-a-cost-benefit-test https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/18/2026_09_18_179846_1789724708.jpg This handout picture taken and released on Aug. 15, 2026 by Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) shows rescuers working amid the rubble of a damaged building after an earthquake in Maumere, East Nusa Tenggara. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/19/ntt-earthquake-death-figures-prompt-calls-for-investigation https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/18/2026_09_18_179850_1789730006.jpg Several evacuees sit in an evacuation shelter on Aug. 28 in Lape, Aesesa district, Nagekeo regency, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT). https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/18/2026_09_18_179849_1789730006.jpg A Health Ministry crisis center volunteer checks the condition of a woman at the Warsawe community health center (Puskesmas) on Sept. 14 in West Manggarai, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT). https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/09/19/good-governance-101 https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/11/2026_08_11_178543_1786446721.jpg Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung (center, front) inspects a Jakarta Light Rail Transit (LRT) station under construction on July 14, 2026, in Rawamangun, East Jakarta. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/09/18/prabowo-skips-unga-as-ri-seeks-to-bridge-divides https://img.jakpost.net/c/2025/10/05/2025_10_05_167279_1759675991.jpg President Prabowo Subianto speaks on Sept. 23, 2025, during the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York City, the United States. https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/02/20/2026_02_20_172816_1771592394.jpg President Prabowo Subianto (fourth left) speaks with United States President Donald Trump (third right) on Feb. 19 during the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace at the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace in Washington, DC. Prabowo reiterated Indonesia's readiness to contribute in the International Stabilization Force (ISF), the board's peacekeeping mission, by sending at least 8,000 to war-torn Gaza. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/18/indonesia-to-receive-assistance-from-malaysia-to-contain-wildfires https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/18/2026_09_18_179852_1789733468.JPG A staff member of the Regional Disaster Agency (BPBD) sprays water to extinguish a fire in a peatland area burnt by wildfires, in Kubu Raya, West Kalimantan province, Indonesia, September 15, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/09/18/bayan-sells-stake-to-prabowo-ally-after-quota-cut https://img.jakpost.net/c/2025/02/18/2025_02_18_160340_1739872951.jpg Piles of coal are seen on barges floating down a river on Aug, 16, 2022, in Samarinda, East Kalimantan. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/09/18/airasias-fernandes-says-carrier-can-withstand-jet-fuel-cost-spike https://img.jakpost.net/c/2018/05/13/2018_05_13_45874_1526211800.jpg AirAsia Group CEO, Tony Fernandes at a press conference in Sydney on March 12, 2015. Fernandes on Sunday apologized for a controversial stunt endorsing scandal-tainted Prime Minister Najib Razak before Malaysia's general election. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/18/indonesian-navy-welcomes-former-italian-warship-as-its-first-aircraft-carrier https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/18/2026_09_18_179844_1789721762.jpg This aerial picture shows former Italian Navy aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi docked upon its arrival from Italy at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta on September 18, 2026, ahead of its handover to the Indonesian Navy. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/09/18/finance-minister-promises-tax-refunds-for-eligible-businesses https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/07/12/2026_07_12_177537_1783853590.jpg An officer (right) helps a woman file her annual tax return on March 27, 2026, via the new Coretax platform of the Finance Ministry’s Directorate General of Taxes (DGT) at the Meulaboh Tax Office in West Aceh regency, Aceh. https://www.thejakartapost.com/culture/2026/09/18/ed-sheeran-struggles-against-gaza-tide https://img.jakpost.net/c/2019/12/12/2019_12_12_83506_1576122160.JPG Ed Sheeran attends the UK premiere of 'Yesterday' in London, Britain, on June 18, 2019. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/09/18/how-obscure-yttrium-became-a-global-flashpoint https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/05/21/2026_05_21_175962_1779362930.jpg An exhibitor looks at a wafer during the SEMICON China semiconductor exhibition in Shanghai on March 25, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/09/18/reading-the-pisa-scores-and-what-should-follow https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/14/2026_09_14_179722_1789381859.jpg Elementary school children sit on a bamboo raft as they cross the Citarum River on their way home in Saguling, Bandung, West Java, on Sept. 1, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/09/18/is-indonesia-returning-to-fiscal-orthodoxy https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/15/2026_09_15_179750_1789451421.JPG Newly appointed Finance Minister Suahasil Nazara (left) reacts as outgoing Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa signs a document, during a handover ceremony at the Finance Ministry, on Sept. 15, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/18/another-company-flees-batam-abandons-1025-workers https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/17/2026_09_17_179812_1789636815.jpeg PT Ghim Li Indonesia's workers, who have been abandoned by the management, lie down in the company's factory on Monday to safeguard company assets, such as sewing machines, at the factory's Sewing Department in the Tunas Industrial Area, Batam city in Riau Islands. The Ghim Li management team abandoned the workers after failing to pay August wages. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/09/18/the-un-cannot-and-need-not-wait-for-consensus https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/25/2026_08_25_178985_1787648519.jpg The United Nations (UN) logo is seen on a gate outside the UN headquarters ahead of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. the United States, on Sept. 21, 2025. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/18/state-led-food-estate-blamed-for-wildfire-in-papua https://img.jakpost.net/c/2025/09/09/2025_09_09_166315_1757436161.jpg A deforested area to be converted into a sugar cane plantation by PT Murni Nusantara Abadi, directly threatening the adjacent customary forest protected by the Kwipalo Clan, scars the landscape on March 17, 2025, in Mandiri Jagebob, Merauke regency, South Papua. https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/17/2026_09_17_179816_1789649134.jpg Officials use a combine harvester during the first rice harvest on March 9, 2025, attended by government officials, military officers and villagers at Kaliki Village in Merauke, South Papua, as part of the food estate program launched to improve food self-sufficiency through large-scale farming. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/09/18/house-discusses-changes-to-fiscal-deficit-limit https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/28/2026_08_28_179109_1787931205.jpg President Prabowo Subianto is displayed on screens as he delivers his annual State of the Nation address ahead of the country's 81st Independence Day anniversary in front of the members of the legislative bodies during the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) plenary session on Aug. 14, 2026, at the Senayan Legislative Complex in Central Jakarta. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/09/18/saudis-and-houthis-exchange-strikes-yemenis-flee-by-boat-as-middle-east-war-spreads https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/18/2026_09_18_179834_1789694869.jpg Vessels transit the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of the port city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran on September 5, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/09/18/eu-commission-proposes-under-13s-social-media-ban https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/18/2026_09_18_179833_1789693926.JPG European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen attends a press conference with Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Technological Sovereignty, Security, and Democracy Henna Virkkunen (not pictured) to present the EU Kids Act, in Strasbourg, France September 17, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/09/18/from-arsenic-to-acid-impunity-and-the-retreat-of-civilian-supremacy https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/05/12/2026_05_12_175630_1778555968.jpg Fights for justice: Members of the Advocacy Team for Democracy (TAUD), legal counsel for Andrie Yunus of Kontras, display legal documents on May 11, 2026, stating their client’s rejection of attendance at the military trial scheduled to be held at the Jakarta Military Court II-08 on May 13. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/18/papua-killings-renews-calls-for-peace-talks-end-armed-conflict https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/17/2026_09_17_179813_1789643631.jpg Officers of the Habema Joint Operations Command of the Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) retrieve the body of a victim killed by Papuan separatists, on Wednesday near Lake Habema in Highland Papua. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/18/prabowo-hints-at-another-cabinet-reshuffle-ahead-of-two-year-mark-in-office https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/07/23/2026_07_23_177941_1784806301.jpg President Prabowo Subianto leads a plenary cabinet meeting on July 20 at the State Palace in Jakarta. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/09/18/indonesia-and-china-toward-a-more-honest-conversation https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/21/2026_08_21_178898_1787319442.JPG Foreign Minister Sugiono (right) shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi as they attend a press conference after their meeting on Aug. 21 at the Foreign Ministry office in Jakarta. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/09/18/analysis-indonesia-russia-ties-deepen-might-this-time-be-different https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/17/2026_09_17_179809_1789626414.jpg In this photograph distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik, President Prabowo Subianto and Russia's President Vladimir Putin hold a meeting on Thursday on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/18/party-leaders-begin-talk-on-election-law-revision-weigh-higher-threshold https://img.jakpost.net/c/2024/04/16/2024_04_16_149331_1713242437.jpeg A woman dips her finger into a jar of ink in on Feb. 14, 2024, after casting a ballot in the 2024 general election at a polling station in Teba hamlet, Jimbaran, Bali. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/09/18/businesses-not-ready-as-halal-deadline-nears-push-delays https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/02/23/2026_02_23_172908_1771851347.jpg A halal logo is displayed on Feb. 23 at a health and beauty retail store inside a shopping mall on Jl. Jend. Basuki Rachmat in East Jakarta. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/09/18/armed-impunity https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/06/10/2026_06_10_176546_1781095809.JPG Military personnel Sami Lakka, Nandala Dwi Prasetya, Budhi Hariyanto Widhi Cahyono and Edi Sudarko charged over an acid attack on human rights activist Andrie Yunus, a ‌deputy coordinator with the rights group Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), known for campaigning against the expanding public role of the armed forces, stand at the courtroom for their verdicts at the Jakarta Military Court on June 10, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/09/18/basarnas-ends-search-for-five-missing-journalists-in-sunda-strait https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/11/2026_09_11_179633_1789128277.JPG Search and rescue personnel ride on a rubber boat on Sept. 9 during a search operation for people who were reported missing in the waters of the Sunda Strait, including journalists covering the activity of Mount Anak Krakatau in Pandeglang, Banten.