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October 10, 2025 11:52 AM

Indonesia denies visas to Israel gymnasts amid Gaza outcry

Indonesia has denied visas to Israeli gymnasts, costing them a spot in a world championship in Jakarta this month, a sports official in the Southeast Asian nation said on Friday, amid outcry over Israel's military offensive in Gaza. The Israeli team was set to participate in the World Artistic Gymnastics championship from October 19 to 25 in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country, which has no formal diplomatic ties with Israel. "They are confirmed to not be attending," Ita Jul...

October 6, 2025 9:10 AM

At least 50 bodies recovered after Indonesian school collapse, 13 remain missing

The death toll from the collapse of a school in Indonesia last week has climbed to at least 50 people as rescuers have cleared nearly all of the debris, rescue authorities said on Monday, in the country's deadliest disaster this year. Piles of concrete caved in on hundreds of mostly teenage boys after the collapse of the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in the Indonesian town of Sidoarjo, in East Java province, trapping and later killing them. Using excavators, rescuers late on Sunday cleare...

October 5, 2025 3:57 PM

Indonesia school collapse death toll rises to 36, search for bodies continues

The number of students confirmed dead after the collapse of an Islamic boarding school building in Indonesia rose to 36, from 16 a day earlier, the country's disaster mitigation agency said on Sunday. Efforts continued for a seventh day to search for the bodies of 27 students still declared missing - mostly teenage boys from the ages of 13 to 19 - trapped under the rubble, the agency said. Cranes were deployed to excavate debris and search and evacuation efforts were 60% complete, according to...

September 25, 2025 9:26 AM

Over 1,000 Indonesians sick from school meals in more food poisoning outbreaks

More than 1,000 children in Indonesia's West Java have suffered food poisoning this week from school lunches, authorities said, the latest in a series of outbreaks and another setback for the president's multi-billion-dollar free meals programme. The mass poisoning was reported in four areas of West Java province, its Governor Dedi Mulyadi told Reuters on Thursday, which came as non-governmental organisations issued calls to suspend the programme due to health concerns. The latest cases follow...

September 4, 2025 11:26 AM

Indonesian students to stage parliament protest, await meeting with government

Indonesian students will stage protests at the parliament building in the capital Jakarta on Thursday, a student group said, as a proposed meeting with the government on massive demonstrations that have left 10 people dead was yet to materialise. Led by students, workers and rights groups, last week's protests over police violence and state spending priorities spread across the world's third-largest democracy after a police vehicle hit and killed a motorcycle taxi driver. The demonstrations ha...

August 14, 2025 10:14 AM

Chinese investors eyeing Indonesia to avoid US tariffs, tap local market

Gao Xiaoyu, the founder of an industrial land consulting firm in Jakarta, has been inundated with calls from Chinese companies eager to expand or set up operations in Indonesia as they try to shield themselves from the United States' hefty import tariffs. The 19% U.S. tariff rate for goods from Indonesia is the same as for Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand, and just below Vietnam's 20%. China's rates currently exceed 30%. But Indonesia, Southeast Asia's biggest economy and the world's fourth ...

August 11, 2025 3:15 PM

Scientists find possible artefacts of oldest known Wallacean hominids in Indonesia

Scientists have found a series of stone tools on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island they say may be evidence of humans living 1.5 million years ago on islands between Asia and Australia, the earliest known humans in the Wallacea region. Archaeologists from Australia and Indonesia found the small, chipped tools, used to cut little animals and carve rocks, under the soil in the region of Soppeng in South Sulawesi. Radioactive tracing of these tools and the teeth of animals found around the site were d...

July 16, 2025 9:18 AM

Trump sets 19% tariff on Indonesia goods in latest deal, EU readies retaliation

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the U.S. would impose a 19% tariff on goods from Indonesia under a new agreement with the Southeast Asian country and more deals were coming, while offering fresh details on planned duties on pharmaceuticals. Trump announced the pact with Indonesia, a relatively minor U.S. trading partner, as he continued to press for what he views as better terms with trading partners and ways to shrink a huge U.S. trade deficit. Letters setting tariff rates for dozens of...

July 15, 2025 12:37 PM

Indonesia rescues 11 who swam for hours to survive boat capsize

Indonesian rescuers found alive on Tuesday 11 people missing at sea who had survived a boat capsize in bad weather by swimming for at least six hours to the nearest island, officials said. Two boats and dozens of rescuers hunted for those missing after the boat with 18 aboard overturned off the Mentawai Islands in the province of West Sumatra at about 11 a.m. on Monday, regional officials said. "It was raining hard when the incident happened," island official Rinto Wardana told Reuters. "Some ...

July 7, 2025 8:44 AM

PM Modi welcomes Indonesia as full BRICS member at 17th Summit in Brazil

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday welcomed Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto as a full member of BRICS during the 17th BRICS Summit held in Brazil, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said. MEA Secretary (Economic Relations) Dammu Ravi, addressing a special media briefing on PM Modi’s visit, highlighted that Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva attached great importance to Modi’s participation at the summit. “Today was a full-day programme with three sessions, a wor...