https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/08/26/malaysia-cloud-seeding-assist-tests-indonesias-limits-as-haze-crosses-borders https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/25/2026_08_25_178982_1787619747.JPG A drone view shows the Ampera Bridge shrouded in haze from wildfires in Palembang, South Sumatra, August 23, 2026. https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/24/2026_08_24_178969_1787559662.jpg People wear masks as they cross Siak IV Bridge, shrouded in haze, on Aug. 24 in Pekanbaru, Riau. The Riau provincial government has urged residents to reduce outdoor activities and wear protective masks while outdoors as air quality in Pekanbaru deteriorates due to smoke from forest and land fires. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/08/26/a-foreign-policy-president-really https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/14/2026_08_14_178652_1786678361.JPG President Prabowo Subianto is displayed on screens as he delivers his annual state of nation address in front of legislator while Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka sits next to him, on Aug. 14 ahead of the country's 81st Independence Day anniversary, in Jakarta. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/08/25/prabowo-kicks-off-solar-power-push-with-groundbreakings-open-tenders https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/25/2026_08_25_178990_1787662437.jpg President Prabowo Subianto (center) presses a button during the launch and groundbreaking ceremony for the solar power plant programs in Gilimanuk, Jembrana, Bali, on Aug. 25, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/08/25/army-readies-natuna-composite-battalion-riau-islands-kodam https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/23/2026_08_23_178936_1787499038.jpg Members of the Indonesian Army gather near a line of Brazilian-made Astros II on Nov. 14, 2019, in Pian Tengah, Natuna, the Riau Islands. The self-propelled multiple rocket launchers comprise the field artillery battery of Composite Battalion 1/Gardapati based in Ranai, Natuna. https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/01/19/2026_01_19_171579_1768806775.jpg President Prabowo Subianto (left) salutes during a troop inspection on Aug. 10, 2025, during the Operational Troops and Military Honors ceremony to inaugurate commanders of the Special Forces Command (Kopassus), the Marine Corps and the Air Force Quick Reaction Command (Kopasgat) at Suparlan Airfield in Bandung, West Java. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/08/25/danantara-export-body-launches-with-future-role-still-hazy https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/25/2026_08_25_178988_1787651129.jpeg State asset fund Danantara CEO Rosan Roeslani (center) gestures on Monday during the launch of PT Danantara Sumberdaya Indonesia (DSI) alongside DSI CEO Luke Mahony (right) at the Danantara headquarters in Jakarta. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/08/25/un-red-cross-call-for-urgent-rules-on-autonomous-weapons 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 on September 21, 2025. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/08/25/kartu-kredit-indonesia-a-new-payment-landscape https://img.jakpost.net/c/2021/06/30/2021_06_30_114939_1625061964.jpg Cashless economy: State bank BNI employees print credit cards at the lender’s Card Business Division in Jakarta on Aug. 10, 2012. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/08/25/trumps-kim-gambit-deepens-doubts-over-us-reliability-at-a-key-moment-for-asia https://img.jakpost.net/c/2019/02/28/2019_02_28_66601_1551339681.jpg US President Donald Trump (right) and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un hold a meeting during the second US-North Korea summit at the Sofitel Legend Metropole hotel in Hanoi on February 28, 2019. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/08/25/stable-rules-key-to-luring-investment-outgoing-eu-envoy-says https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/24/2026_08_24_178965_1787557643.jpeg Coordinating Economy Minister Airlangga Hartarto (second left) and European Union Ambassador to Indonesia and Brunei Darussalam Denis Chaibi (left) share a light moment on Aug. 21, 2026, during a high-level Indonesia-EU dialogue in Jakarta. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/08/25/whoosh-takeover-set-for-september-purbaya-says https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/03/24/2026_03_24_173971_1774370660.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/business/2026/08/25/us-vows-economic-asphyxiation-of-iran-with-new-sanctions https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/25/2026_08_25_178983_1787620724.jpg US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent takes questions from reporters as he speaks during a press conference in Washington, DC on August 24, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/08/25/indonesia-to-open-airspace-for-cloud-seeding-to-tackle-haze-malaysia-says https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/25/2026_08_25_178982_1787619747.JPG A drone view shows the Ampera Bridge shrouded in haze from wildfires in Palembang, South Sumatra, August 23, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/08/25/ntb-hamlet-blaze-raises-alarm-over-indigenous-tourism https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/24/2026_08_24_178954_1787540107.JPG Structures untouched by fire surround what was once the site of Sade on Aug. 23, 2026, a day after a blaze tore through the indigenous Sasak hamlet in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/24/2026_08_24_178952_1787540106.JPG An elderly woman sits next to the burned-out ruins of her house in Sade on Aug. 23, 2026, after an overnight fire razed the indigenous Sasak hamlet in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/08/25/analysis-rosy-labor-figures-conceal-deeper-cracks https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/24/2026_08_24_178971_1787567113.jpg Jobseekers wait in line during the opening of the 2026 Bogor Job Fair at Plaza Jambu Dua in Bogor, West Java, on June 8, 2026.) https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/08/24/norway-will-drill-in-arctic-regardless-of-eus-position-says-energy-minister https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/24/2026_08_24_178964_1787556104.JPG Norway's Energy Minister Terje Aasland attends a press conference in Oslo on Jan. 27, 2025. https://www.thejakartapost.com/sports/2026/08/24/uefa-chief-ceferin-rules-out-running-for-fifa-presidency- https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/24/2026_08_24_178963_1787552174.JPG UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin (right) and FIFA president Gianni Infantino pose for a photograph during the 50th Ordinary UEFA congress in Brussels, Belgium on Feb. 12, 2026 https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/08/24/malaysia-brunei-to-raise-cross-border-haze-issue-at-asean https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/24/2026_08_24_178958_1787550159.JPG A group of women crosses in front of Perdana Putra, the office of the prime minister in Malaysia’s administrative capital Putrajaya, shrouded in haze from regional wildfires on Aug. 13, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/08/24/us-cancels-drills-with-south-korea-over-iran-war-related-constraints https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/24/2026_08_24_178962_1787551618.JPG United States Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopters are parked at Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on Aug. 21, 2026, the final day of the annual US-South Korea Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS) joint military exercise, which was shortened by six days after US President Donald Trump ordered a substantial reduction in US participation. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/08/24/southeast-asias-budget-airlines-eye-recovery-but-fuel-scars-linger https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/24/2026_08_24_178961_1787551029.jpg An airplane operated by Singapore's Scoot airline (right) is being refueled while another aircraft by Indonesian Air Asia is passing in the taxiway at the I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali on Feb. 19, 2018. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/08/24/prabowo-shifts-to-leading-sumatra-fire-response https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/24/2026_08_24_178956_1787540253.JPG A motorcyclist and a passenger pass along a road shrouded in haze caused by wildfires on Aug. 23, 2026, in Banyuasin regency, South Sumatra. https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/18/2026_08_18_178791_1787057880.JPG A car drives by raging flames on Aug. 15, 2026, as a wildfire burns in Rambutan village, Ogan Ilir regency, South Sumatra. https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/22/2026_08_22_178921_1787390677.jpg President Prabowo Subianto (third right, in tan suit) gestures while speaking with National Police chief Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo (second right) on Aug. 22, 2026, as Indonesian Military commander Gen. Agus Subiyanto (right) looks on, while visiting the site of a forest fire in Kubu Raya, Pontianak, West Kalimantan. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/08/24/ukraine-backers-gather-as-war-escalates-air-defense-runs-low https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/24/2026_08_24_178960_1787550162.jpg This photograph shows a view of a shopping mall damaged following a Russian strike in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine on Aug. 22, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian drones slammed into a busy shopping center in eastern Ukraine on Aug. 21, killing 16 people in an attack condemned as “cynical and despicable“ by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/24/2026_08_24_178959_1787550161.jpg Smoke rises over a logistics center in Kolpino, outside Saint Petersburg, Russia behind a billboard promoting contract army service after being hit by Ukrainian drones early on Aug. 23, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/08/24/how-vietnams-gen-z-is-holding-power-to-account https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/23/2026_08_23_178927_1787449795.jpg A protest banner, which reads “The residents of the Red River area in Hong Ha Ward earnestly appeal to city leaders to consider the people's inner thoughts and aspirations, maintaining the existing residential area for the sake of the well-being of thousands of households”, hangs over a street at a neighborhood in Hanoi, on June 19, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/08/24/less-testing-was-a-choice-so-is-the-future https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/02/24/2026_02_24_172960_1771935354.jpg Antinuclear activist rally outside the United States Mission in front of the United Nations to mark the second anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in New York, the US, on Jan. 20, 2023. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/08/24/who-gets-to-feel-the-state-is-beside-them https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/14/2026_08_14_178655_1786681841.jpg President Prabowo Subianto delivers his annual State of the Nation Address, ahead of the country's Independence Day celebrations, in Jakarta on Aug. 14, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/08/24/mandiri-freezing-of-protesters-account-raises-alarm-over-civic-freedom https://img.jakpost.net/c/2019/02/14/2019_02_14_65505_1550162167.jpg Activists of the Solidarity Network of Victims for Justice attend the 574th Kamisan, a weekly silent protest, in front of the Presidential Palace in Central Jakarta on Feb. 14, 2019. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/08/24/the-dollars-outer-defenses-have-been-breached https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/07/2026_08_07_178412_1786087000.jpg A bank employee counts Chinese renminbi notes next to United States dollar bills on Jan. 25, 2023, at a Kasikornbank branch in Bangkok. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/08/24/us-vows-economic-d-day-as-iran-threatens-to-halt-all-oil-exports https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/04/15/2026_04_15_174732_1776215455.JPG US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks with Bjorn Lomborg during an event hosted by the Institute of International Finance in Washington, DC, on April 14, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/08/24/middle-powers-must-make-choice-in-rebuilding-global-order https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/22/2026_08_22_178924_1787414120.jpg Munich Security Conference CEO Benedikt Franke https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/08/24/the-five-pillars-to-transmute-indonesia-us-defense-partnership https://img.jakpost.net/c/2025/08/25/2025_08_25_165826_1756121938.jpg United States military personnel fire a Javelin anti-tank weapon system during the Super Garuda Shield 2024 joint military exercise including Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Britain and the US in Situbondo, East Java on Sept. 6, 2024. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/08/24/nu-clerics-warn-against-political-interference-in-upcoming-leadership-race https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/07/17/2026_07_17_177723_1784257669.jpg Groups of santri (Islamic boarding school students) hold aloft the flag of Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) as they wait along a road for the presidential motorcade to arrive on June 23, 2026, ahead of the closing ceremony of the NU National Conference of Islamic Scholars and Grand Conference at the Syachona Mohammad Cholil Islamic Institute in Bangkalan, East Java. https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/22/2026_08_22_178925_1787417747.jpg Former vice president and Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) advisory council (Syuriyah) member Ma'ruf Amin (right) speaks as he is accompanied by NU senior cleric Ali Akbar Marbun (left) during a press briefing after a meeting between the group's senior clerics at the organization's headquarters in Central Jakarta on Aug. 20, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/08/24/borderless-pollution-chokes-greater-jakarta-as-policy-gaps-persist https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/23/2026_08_23_178929_1787463396.JPG Visitors look at the National Monument (Monas) against a backdrop of air pollution, from the balcony of the National Library on Jl. Medan Merdeka Selatan on Sunday in Central Jakarta. https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/23/2026_08_23_178930_1787463399.JPG Air pollution shrouds high-rise buildings on Sunday in Central Jakarta. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/08/24/analysis-odd-price-movements-and-haji-isams-rumored-bayan-acquisition https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/24/2026_08_24_178951_1787529941.jpg Heavy equipment is operated at a coal mine in East Kalimantan in this undated photograph. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/08/24/anarchy-and-the-geoeconomy-how-chinas-adjustment-impacts-indonesia https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/05/28/2026_05_28_176162_1779959377.jpg A teller counts rupiah banknotes at the BNI Pasar Baru branch in Jakarta on Oct. 27, 2025. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/08/24/unsoed-rector-among-suspects-in-admissions-graft-case https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/02/24/2026_02_24_172946_1771914365.jpg The reflection of motorists is seen in the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) building sign on June 27, 2023, in Jakarta. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/08/24/police-crack-down-on-land-burning-in-kalimantan https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/23/2026_08_23_178935_1787492979.JPG Riders wear protective masks as smog covers the area due to recent wildfires in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan on August 14, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/08/24/growing-regional-discontent https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/15/2026_08_15_178713_1786796990.jpg A man climbs a flagpole as he attempts to raise a Free Aceh Movement flag alongside the Indonesian national flag during a rally outside the Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh, Aceh, on Aug. 15, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/08/24/bromo-fire-extinguished-new-hot-spot-emerges-on-arjuna-welirang-slopes https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/11/2026_08_11_178530_1786436199.jpg Wildfire flames and smoke rise above a forest on Aug. 10 in the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park near Mount Bromo in Probolinggo, East Java. https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/07/2026_08_07_178414_1786095138.jpg Officials from the East Java Provincial Disaster Management Agency fill a drone’s water tank on Aug. 6 to battle a wildfire in the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park near Mount Bromo in Probolinggo, East Java. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/08/23/us-china-trade-war-gives-indonesia-shot-at-boosting-investment https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/14/2026_08_14_178672_1786700583.jpeg People walk near the DayOne data center in 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 clean water and electricity infrastructure . https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/08/23/kjri-johor-bahru-repatriates-307-indonesians-from-malaysia https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/21/2026_08_21_178891_1787310854.jpeg A diplomat from the Indonesian Consulate General in Johor Bahru (center) oversees 307 Indonesians who are about to be repatriated from Stulang Laut and Pasir Gudang ferry terminals on Aug. 18 in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. This year, the consulate general has repatriated 3,920 Indonesians as of July. https://www.thejakartapost.com/sports/2026/08/23/sydney-marathon-unveils-medal-with-wrong-stadium https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/23/2026_08_23_178933_1787468271.jpg In this file photo, people arrive at the Allianz arena prior to the UEFA Women's Champions League Quarter Final second-leg football match between FC Bayern Munich and Manchester United in Munich on April 1, 2026. https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/23/2026_08_23_178934_1787468271.jpg Athletes cross the Harbour Bridge during the 2025 Sydney Marathon on August 31, 2025.