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Three flea-riddled kittens frolic under the feet of a food vendor at a bustling train station in Jakarta, home to one of the biggest urban stray cat populations on Earth.

Numbering as many as 1.5 million by some counts -- about one for every ten human inhabitants of the sprawling Indonesian capital -- street cats are ubiquitous and, for the most part, doted on.

"Cats are there to neutralise negative auras and to cheer you up," 33-year-old vendor Saiful Faizin told AFP.

He gives the strays water and leftovers from his chicken porridge cart and plays tenderly with the little ones.

#Reportage by AFP/Mariëtte Le Roux.

Photos by AFP/Bay Ismoyo.

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Many Jakarta residents are urging the city administration to expand green open spaces, saying the capital lacks affordable public places to relax and socialize beyond shopping malls. Public demand for more parks comes as Jakarta’s green open spaces remain insufficient, covering just 5.59 percent of the city’s total area as of April, well below the 20 percent target set under the 2007 Spatial Planning Law.

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Drought has begun affecting several regions across Java as the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) warns that the country’s dry season is expected to peak in August and may last longer than usual.

Story by Radhiyya Indra.

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Behind Indonesia’s improving statistics lies a harsh reality of over one million children hidden in an unregulated, informal economy. To save them, the government must democratize local data and force its siloed ministries to cooperate.

#Opinion by Dede Shinta Sudono.

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The House of Representatives’ passage of the revised Police Law has closed a debate that dominated public discussion for months.

The government frames this revision as a broader effort to transform the force into a more professional, transparent, modern and service-oriented institution. On the surface, few would object to such goals.

In politics, however, the real issue rarely lies in proclaimed objectives. More often, it lies in the institutional arrangements created to achieve them.

#Opinion by Gde Siriana Yusuf.

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Deadly floods and landslides in Indonesia's Sumatra last year have wiped out at least 7 percent of the total population of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan, a new report showed.

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Indonesia’s military justice system still reflects a broader pattern of impunity for handing down mild sentences, especially in cases of violence committed by personnel against civilians, according to rights group the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras).

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Recently, at an international conference in Copenhagen, an Indonesian researcher allegedly presented fabricated data generated with artificial intelligence, under an institution that could not be traced.

She reportedly went so far as to alter her appearance between sessions to pass as multiple people.

The domestic reaction has followed a familiar script: public outrage, demands for sanctions and a ministerial investigation, all aimed squarely at the individual.

But treating this as the story of one dishonest person avoids a harder truth.

#Opinion by Hari M. Sembiring.

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Bank Indonesia (BI) has been tasked with a new mandate on job creation in the newly passed law that also expands control over the central bank, which economists say come at a bad time given the wobbly market condition.

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Pro-Russia and pro-China actors might have been involved in an online campaign that portrayed the August-September 2025 protests in Indonesia as an attempt by “foreign agents” to destabilize the country and trigger a “color revolution”, according to an investigative study by local media and social media researchers.

The collective probe by Tempo magazine, Kompas.com, Suara.com, Tribunnews.com and social media monitoring platform Drone Emprit, conducted as part of a European Union-backed media development program run by international nonprofit Internews, found indications of foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) that aimed to frame last year’s sweeping protests as foreign-backed.

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