Latest Indonesia News & Current Events in English
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search results
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search results
Politics
premium
Prabowo’s universal free education plan raises feasibility questions
Finance Minister Suahasil Nazara said there would be no additional allocation for free state schools, with the government instead reviewing how the existing education budget is distributed among the central and regional governments, ministries and agencies.
56 minutes ago
Archipelago
premium
Calls grow for tighter food safety in free meal program after child’s death
A nine-year-old boy in Lampung recently died after choking on a longan fruit distributed as part of the initiative, marking the first reported death linked to the program.
1 hour ago
Archipelago
premium
Dozens of homesick students leave North Sumatra community schools
Presidential chief of staff Dudung Abdurrahman said 30 students from Integrated Community School 1 in Serdang Bedagai regency returned to their homes because they were unable to settle in the boarding school.
20 hours agoThe Latest
View more
Archipelago
premium
167 psychiatric patients evacuated as haze worsens in South Kalimantan
Authorities are preparing to move patients to an off-site facility if smoke from the wildfires around the hospital could not be brought under control.
21 hours ago
Society
Respiratory problems climb past 170,000 cases in Indonesia
Blazes in Kalimantan, Sumatra and Papua have blanketed parts of the country, as well as neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore, sending air quality indices plummeting.
23 hours ago
Society
premium
RSPO integrity tested as wildfires hit orangutan habitat
Independent monitoring and analyses found thousands of land inside oil palm concessions operated by companies certified by the global certifier group have been burned, with some fires threatening habitats of local biodiversity such as the Bornean orangutan.
23 hours ago
Politics
premium
Gibran faces fresh challenge over eligibility as VP
The Constitutional Court began hearing this week a petition challenging Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka’s educational qualifications when he ran for office in 2024, with petitioners asking the court to disqualify him two years after the election.
1 day ago
Society
premium
Crew member from missing Anak Krakatau boat identified
The crew member’s body from the missing boat of journalists covering the eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau on Sept. 7 was initially found on Enggano Island in Bengkulu, around 350 kilometers west of the volcano in the Sunda Strait.
1 day agoPopular
- Recentralization concerns in fiscal, education heighten
- Twenty years on, BRICS faces a defining choice
- Safeguarding Indonesia's AI future
- Crew member from missing Anak Krakatau boat identified
- Court decision tightens House oversight on free meals funding
- Indonesia puts peace, UN reform, Global South at center of UNGA agenda
- Batam residents protest data centers amid water crisis
- Gibran faces fresh challenge over eligibility as VP
- Breaking the vicious cycle of forest fires and haze
- RSPO integrity tested as wildfires hit orangutan habitat
premium
premium
