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Indonesia is gearing up for a major energy shift with its first-ever nuclear power plant and big decisions are happening soon.

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Story by Ruth Dea Juwita.

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The Jakarta Post

President Prabowo Subianto has raised a plan to repurpose a building formerly used as the British Embassy in Jakarta for the headquarters for Muslim organizations, but the move has been met with concerns over the preservation of the city’s cultural heritage.

Story by Maretha Uli.

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The Jakarta Post

Late in the evening, an informal worker in the capital picks up his phone. Rice prices have ticked upward; his cash has run dry.

With a few taps, he selects “disburse” on a lending app.

There is no face-to-face judgment, no invasive questioning, only the sterile glow of a progress bar.

On that same screen, ads for “buy now, pay later” and “increased credit limits” appear like digital lifelines.

Simultaneously, social media notifications provide a different kind of noise: viral clips of domestic strife, staged “survival” stories and people weeping for the camera, content engineered to hijack the viewer’s attention until the final second.

Hunger, anxiety and exploitation converge in a single space: a six-inch screen. We often cloak this phenomenon in the sterile language of “financial inclusion”.

But that term masks a predatory reality: poverty is being commodified.

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The Jakarta Post

The city administration has tightened its ban on groundwater extraction in industrial zones and from beneath public roads to curb worsening land subsidence, but environmental groups warn the move may fall short without consistent enforcement and stricter oversight.

Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung announced recently that he had signed a gubernatorial decree on energy and water efficiency in buildings, reinforcing a renewed 2021 regulation banning groundwater extraction in nine industrial areas and along 12 roads in the capital.

Story by Gembong Hanung.

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The Jakarta Post

Indonesia’s decision to join the Board of Peace for the rehabilitation of Gaza and the broader Palestinian question marks a significant diplomatic moment. It places Indonesia, long regarded as a moral voice of the Global South, inside a new and powerful multilateral forum dominated by global powers, including the United States.

This step should not be read simplistically as alignment or concession. Rather, it represents a strategic test: Can Indonesia transform elite multilateral platforms into instruments of just peace, rather than mere mechanisms of conflict management?

Opinion by Hery Haryanto Azumi.

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The Jakarta Post

Poor oversight of plantations and urban developments have reduced water absorption capacity, a factor academics and environmental groups say contributed to a deadly landslide in Pasirlangu village in West Bandung, West Java.

Story by Maretha Uli.

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The Jakarta Post

Rows of tall trees rise skyward in Megamendung district, Bogor regency, West Java, their dense canopies closing overhead to create a rare pocket of shade in an area better known for disappearing green space.

But this green oasis was not always so lush.

Just a few decades ago, it was barren land with little vegetation.

The transformation is the result of decades of dedication by 64-year-old Rosita Istiawan and her late husband Bambang Istiawan, who nurtured the soil back to life.

"My late husband worked in an oil drilling company and only came home once a year. He dreamed of spending his later years living in a house on the edge of a forest. But in Megamendung, where we live, there were no forests, so we challenged ourselves to create one and make his dream a reality," she told The Jakarta Post recently.

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The Jakarta Post

A dome-fronted submersible sinks beneath the waves off Indonesia, heading down nearly 1,000 meters in search of new species, plastic-eating microbes and compounds that could one day make medicines.

This month, AFP boarded one of two submersibles belonging to OceanX, a non-profit backed by billionaire Ray Dalio and his son that brings scientists onto its OceanXplorer ship to study the marine world.

Story by AFP/Sarah Hussein.

Photos by AFP/Yasuyoshi Chiba.

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Nearly 92,000 people displaced by devastating floods in Aceh province remain in tents two months after the disaster, with progress on temporary housing lagging far behind survivors’ needs.

Story by Apriadi Gunawan.

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As Indonesia’s largest urban region grows into the world’s most populous, residents balance hardship and hope in a city that remains the country’s strongest economic magnet.

Story by Ramadani Saputra.

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