https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/11/14/two-arrested-in-west-kalimantan-over-alleged-bride-trafficking-to-china https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/13/2026_11_13_181514_1794570614.jpg Two women, identified only by their initials L, 42, and LKS, 36, are escorted by a police officer at West Kalimantan Police headquarters in Pontianak on Nov. 10, 2026. The two were arrested for allegedly trafficking Indonesian women through arranged marriages with men in China. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/11/14/asean-unity-faces-test-as-energy-crisis-regional-conflicts-loom-over-summit https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/14/2026_11_14_181542_1794627958.jpg A man and child walk past a billboard featuring a work by Filipino artist Manansala, as part of a showcase of renowned Filipino artists displayed along the route near the venue of the upcoming ASEAN summit, in Manila on November 13, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/11/14/trump-xi-putin-to-hold-historic-meeting-in-china-white-house https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/14/2026_11_14_181541_1794626791.jpg Traditional Russian wooden nesting dolls, Matryoshka dolls, depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin (center), Chinese President Xi Jinping (center left) and US President Donald Trump (right) are displayed for sale in a shop at Izmailovo market in Moscow on February 10, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/11/14/medan-man-trafficked-to-russia-to-serve-as-mercenary https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/01/2026_09_01_179228_1788267036.jpg This handout picture taken on Aug. 22, 2026 and released on Aug. 24 by the press service of Ukraine's 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade shows a serviceman of the brigade walking in Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/11/14/secrecy-surrounding-asset-forfeiture-bill-raises-alarm https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/08/28/2026_08_28_179095_1787901085.jpg Hundreds of people crowd the gate of the Senayan Legislative Complex in Central Jakarta on Aug. 27, 2026, during a mass demonstration that demanded passage of the long-delayed asset forfeiture bill and tougher punishment for corrupt officials. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/11/14/us-grounds-all-flights-sparking-travel-chaos https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/14/2026_11_14_181537_1794615927.jpg A passenger waits on the floor of the terminal at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Washington, DC on November 13, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/11/14/analysis-beyond-binance-is-indonesia-prepared-for-crypto-risks https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/13/2026_11_13_181505_1794550561.jpg Binance logo and hacker code are seen in this illustration taken on Oct. 30, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/11/14/pramono-eyes-senayans-abandoned-pillars-after-rasuna-said-cleanup https://img.jakpost.net/c/2025/06/27/2025_06_27_163978_1750994623.jpg Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung delivers a speech during a flag ceremony on June 22, 2025, to commemorate the 498th anniversary of Jakarta at the National Monument (Monas) Square in Jakarta. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/11/14/parties-leave-prabowo-to-decide-new-vp https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/13/2026_11_13_181518_1794576753.jpg President Prabowo Subianto (center) delivers a press statement flanked by then vice president Gibran Rakabuming Raka (second right), MPR chairman Ahmad Muzani (second left), House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Sufmi Dasco Ahmad (right) and MPR Deputy Speaker Bambang Wuryanto on Nov. 12 at Merdeka Palace in Jakarta. Prabowo said he respected and supported Gibran’s decision to resign as vice president. https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/12/2026_11_12_181478_1794470124.jpg Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka (center) arrives for submitting his resignation letter to the People's Consultative Assembly at the parliament building in Jakarta on November 12, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/11/14/never-tax-essentials https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/07/2026_11_07_181346_1794056256.jpg A demonstrator holds a placard that reads, “The state profits from menstrual blood”, referring to a policy to tax sanitary pads, during Women’s March Jakarta 2026 on Nov. 7 along Jl. Thamrin in Central Jakarta. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/11/14/aceh-declares-state-of-emergency-after-widespread-flooding https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/13/2026_11_13_181512_1794562364.png A man walks across a bridge littered with logs swept downstream by flash floods in Dabun Gelang district, Gayo Lues regency, Aceh, on Nov. 9, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/11/13/batam-celebrates-55-years-of-industrial-transformation https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/13/2026_11_13_181519_1794577835.jpg The Batam Investment Awards 2026 were held on Oct. 30 at the Grand Mercure Batam Centre as part of the 55th anniversary celebrations of the Batam Free Trade Zone Authority (BP Batam), recognizing businesses whose contributions extend beyond capital investment to technological innovation, employment creation, environmental responsibility and long-term economic development. (All images courtesy of BP Batam) https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/13/2026_11_13_181521_1794577835.jpg BP Batam's deputy for investment Fary Djemy Francis said investment should not be measured only by the amount of capital attracted, but also by its contribution to productive capacity, employment and economic value. (All images courtesy of BP Batam) https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/13/2026_11_13_181520_1794577835.jpg BP Batam head Amsakar Achmad speaks at the Batam Investment Awards 2026 on Oct. 30. (All images courtesy of BP Batam) https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/11/13/e-commerce-drives-indonesias-16-digital-economy-growth https://img.jakpost.net/c/2025/10/16/2025_10_16_167730_1760583125.jpg A consumer uses electronic devices to shop online on Oct. 13, at a marketplace in Semarang, Central Java. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/11/13/prabowo-to-attend-asean-talks-amid-haze-pressures https://img.jakpost.net/c/2025/10/27/2025_10_27_168206_1761570159.jpg President Prabowo Subianto attends the 28th ASEAN Plus Three (APT) Summit during the 47th ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 27, 2025. https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/10/16/2026_10_16_180744_1792156378.jpg An aerial view shows thick smoke and haze from forest and land fires in Palang Karaya, Central Kalimantan, on Oct. 15, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/11/13/assembly-will-pick-new-vice-president-to-replace-gibran-on-dec-2 https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/07/2026_09_07_179516_1788798169.jpg The iconic building in the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) in Senayan, Jakarta https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/11/13/govt-to-reassess-b50-biodiesel-mandate-amid-supply-funding-concerns https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/10/19/2026_10_19_180792_1792392824.JPG A drone view shows trucks loaded with oil palm fruit bunches waiting outside the Multi Prima Entakai (MPE) palm oil mill in Sanggau, West Kalimantan, on Oct. 2, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/11/13/dutch-pm-in-crisis-talks-to-prevent-government-collapse https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/06/21/2026_06_21_176891_1782051056.jpg Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten answers journalists' questions after a meeting with Indian Prime Minister in the garden of the Catshuis during an official visit by India's Prime Minister to The Hague on May 16, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/11/13/indonesia-spends-95-billion-on-free-meals-program-from-january-to-october https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/10/21/2026_10_21_180847_1792558144.JPG Indonesia's Finance Minister Suahasil Nazara reacts following a press conference at Bank Indonesia's headquarters in Jakarta, on Sept. 24, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/11/13/government-to-maintain-fuel-subsidies-despite-rising-expenditure https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/10/21/2026_10_21_180845_1792558142.JPG Central Bank Governor Destry Damayanti (left) and Finance Minister Suahasil Nazara prepare to make a pinky promise on Sept. 24, 2026, during a press conference following their meeting at the Bank Indonesia headquarters in Central Jakarta. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2026/11/13/climate-change-made-indonesian-wildfires-more-severe-scientists-say- https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/15/2026_09_15_179759_1789472645.jpg A firefighter from the Regional Disaster Management Agency douses a forest fire at Sungai Rambutan village in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra on September 11, 2026. Toxic haze has shrouded parts of Indonesia and Malaysia for weeks as Jakarta struggles to contain fires that have scorched large tracts of Borneo and Sumatra, with the smoke drifting into neighboring Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/11/13/ri-singapore-discuss-joint-action-on-tax-evasion-transfer-pricing https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/09/29/2026_09_29_180176_1790662755.jpg An official 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/indonesia/2026/11/13/from-catering-business-to-vice-presidency-gibran-ends-his-journey-after-diploma-scandal https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/12/2026_11_12_181476_1794463322.jpg Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka (centre) walks away from the parliamentary complex in Jakarta on Nov. 12, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/11/13/microsoft-outage-spills-into-asia-pacific-business-hours- https://img.jakpost.net/c/2025/03/03/2025_03_03_160770_1740989989.JPG A man looks at his phone in front of the Microsoft logo during the 2025 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday, March 3, 2025. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/11/13/north-sumatra-police-arrest-four-suspected-of-human-trafficking-to-malaysia https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/02/23/2026_02_23_172899_1771840121.jpg Stock illustration of human trafficking. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/11/13/body-of-riau-migrant-worker-killed-in-s-korea-returned-home https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/12/2026_11_12_181482_1794482245.jpg Family representatives (right) receive the body of Muhammad Taufiq during a handover ceremony at the cargo area of Sultan Syarif Kasim II Airport in Pekanbaru on Nov. 11, 2026. Taufiq was a government-to-government scheme migrant worker who was killed in South Korea on Nov. 2, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/11/13/seven-gadjah-mada-university-students-released-from-detention-after-demonstration https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/11/2026_11_11_181452_1794400181.jpg Students and members of the Gadjah Mada University Workers' Union (SEJAGAD) stage a solidarity rally on Nov. 11 outside the university's Balairung building in Sleman, Yogyakarta. The rally was held in response to the reported police siege of the campus and the arrest of several students following a demonstration in Yogyakarta on Nov. 10. https://www.thejakartapost.com/the-weekend-digest/2026/11/13/citra-awards-2026-who-makes-the-cut https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/11/2026_11_11_181445_1794384919.png https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/11/2026_11_11_181443_1794384915.jpg https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/11/2026_11_11_181444_1794384916.jpg https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/11/2026_11_11_181442_1794384914.jpg https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/11/2026_11_11_181446_1794384919.png https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/11/13/nvidia-ceo-huang-quits-after-affair-with-suspected-china-spy https://img.jakpost.net/c/2024/11/23/2024_11_23_157610_1732333285.JPG Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang present NVIDIA Blackwell platform at an event ahead of the COMPUTEX forum in Taipei, Taiwan on June 2, 2024. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/11/13/the-weakest-link-how-the-us-is-testing-indonesias-nonalignment https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/03/06/2026_03_06_173409_1772788557.jpg President Prabowo Subianto (left) listens as United States President Donald Trump speaks on Feb. 19, 2026, during the signing ceremony for the US-Indonesia Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (ART) in Washington, DC. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/11/13/dollar-near-19-month-high-on-fed-hike-bets-yen-tests-160 https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/06/19/2026_06_19_176824_1781841745.JPG An employee of the foreign exchange trading company Gaitame.com works in front of monitors displaying the current Japanese Yen exchange rate against the US dollar, at their dealing room in Tokyo on June 19, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/11/13/analysis-incentives-vs-free-meals-regions-compete-for-fiscal-relief https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/12/2026_11_12_181471_1794456833.jpg Ready-to-eat: Workers unload lunch boxes from a van on Jan. 6, 2025, the first day of the free meals program, at a high school in Sidoarjo Regency, East Java. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/11/13/listyo-ordered-wiretapping-acted-as-end-user-police https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/06/2026_11_06_181317_1793972202.jpg Former National Police chief Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo smiles as he arrives at the State Palace on Oct. 1 in Jakarta. President Prabowo Subianto on Oct. 1 replaced his foreign minister in his seventh cabinet reshuffle in two years, as he also changed the police chief. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/11/13/state-spending-on-influencers-slammed-as-wasteful https://img.jakpost.net/c/2024/10/22/2024_10_22_156415_1729583486.jpg President Prabowo Subianto (second right) congratulates Raffi Ahmad (center) on Oct. 22, 2024, at the State Palace in Jakarta after his inauguration as the Presidential Envoy for Youth and Arts Workers Development. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/11/13/gibran-resigns https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/12/2026_11_12_181484_1794489145.jpg President Prabowo Subianto (left) embraces Gibran Rakabuming Raka (center), who served as vice president from 2024 to 2026, while House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Sufmi Dasco Ahmad looks on following a press statement at Merdeka Palace in Jakarta on Nov. 12, 2026. Prabowo said he respected and supported Gibran's decision to resign as vice president. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/11/13/apologize-then-lead https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/05/11/2026_05_11_175587_1778453695.JPG President Prabowo Subianto (center right) reaches for the hand of Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah (center left) as Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (left) and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet look on as they prepare for a “family photo” on May 8, 2026, during the opening ceremony of the 48th ASEAN Summit in Cebu, the Philippines. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/11/12/biodiesel-push-risks-reviving-palm-oil-deforestation https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/07/30/2026_07_30_178127_1785412457.jpg This picture taken on February 11, 2026 shows native forest trees (left) and land cleared and prepared for industrial planting (right) in Lahei Mangkutup, Kapuas regency in Central Kalimantan Province. Vast tracts of Indonesian rainforest home to endangered orangutans have been cleared for plantations supplying a maker of “carbon-neutral“ packaging, an investigation by AFP and The Gecko Project has found. https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/10/13/2026_10_13_180637_1791909300.jpg Special Presidential Envoy on Energy and Climate Change Hashim Djojohadikusumo (left) slices a 'tumpeng' (rice cone) on Nov. 10 during the opening ceremony of the Indonesian Pavilion at the United Nations climate change conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/11/12/rupiah-touches-new-low-on-fed-hike-bets-politics https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/12/2026_11_12_181483_1794483362.jpg Bundles of Indonesian rupiah banknotes are pictured at a currency exchange office in Jakarta on June 4, 2026, after the rupiah weakened beyond 18,000 per US dollar for the first time. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/11/12/haji-isam-reportedly-weighs-bid-for-eramets-stake-in-weda-bay-nickel https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/10/09/2026_10_09_180482_1791512805.JPG A drone view shows nickel processing facilities at the Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park in Central Halmahera Regency, North Maluku, in this handout picture released Oct. 8, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/11/12/vp-gibran-hands-in-resignation-as-jokowi-expresses-support-for-prabowo https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/12/2026_11_12_181478_1794470124.jpg Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka (center) arrives for submitting his resignation letter to the People's Consultative Assembly at the parliament building in Jakarta on November 12, 2026. https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/11/12/ina-invests-in-vena-groups-2-8-gw-renewable-energy-portfolio https://img.jakpost.net/c/2026/11/12/2026_11_12_181475_1794460359.jpg Wind turbines dot the landscape across rice fields in Indonesia, in this undated handout photo.