Alfy Ifthikhar – Indonesia's Climate Change Management Bill, known as the RUU Pengendalian Perubahan Iklim (PPI), has been suspended at the harmonization stage in the House of Representatives, Indonesia's lower house of parliament, since Wednesday, February 4, 2026, after one parliamentary commission proposed folding it into a revision of the country's 2009 environmental law rather

Yvette Tanamal, Jakarta – Spreading forest and peatland fires in Indonesia have caused people to fall sick, as haze from hundreds of thousands of burned lands across the country worsen air quality in many regions and trigger respiratory infections among people.

Jayapura, Jubi – Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) says 109 people have been killed or injured in violence and armed conflict across Papua in 2026.

Ni Komang Erviani, Jakarta – An Australian arrested for a public act of indecency, identified only as BA, was deported to Brisbane, Australia, on Tuesday evening. The 28-year-old man has also been banned from re-entering Indonesia for 10 years.

President Prabowo Subianto attended the 2026 BRICS Summit in New Delhi, India, on September 12-13 with a message of resilience, sustainability and inclusive global growth. At the forum, Prabowo emphasised the importance of turning vulnerability into strength and strengthening food and energy security.

Yerica Lai, Jakarta – The next presidential election may still be three years away, but several potential contenders have already begun making early moves as President Prabowo Subianto 's approval ratings slide and criticism of his government mounts.

Alfy Ifthikhar – More than 300 delegates from Indonesia and across the Asia-Pacific region gathered at The Westin Resort Nusa Dua in Bali on September 8 and 9, 2026 for the Indonesia Carbon and Biodiversity Summit, a forum bringing together policymakers, investors, project developers, carbon buyers, standards bodies, civil society organizations and industry players in the carbon and

Andrew Mathieson – Melanesian leaders are stepping up pressure on Jakarta to facilitate a United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights visit to West Papua.

There has also been a call to consider scrapping Indonesia's associate membership in the regional bloc of the Melanesian Spearhead Group entirely.

Lee Jay – Oppression in West Papua continues, decade after decade, while the international community repeatedly demonstrates the limits of its commitment to human rights when strategic interests are involved.

What is the point of building food security if the way to achieve it makes a region increasingly vulnerable to disaster? The question has become more relevant after forest and land fires hit the government's food self-sufficiency project area in Merauke, South Papua.

Antara, Jakarta – A landslide occurred at an illegal gold mining site in Dongi Dongi Village, Poso Regency, Central Sulawesi, on Friday, September 11, striking several miners.

Jayapura, Jubi – Violence will not solve the problems facing Papua, Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) Papua office has said following the shooting deaths of three civil servants in Jayawijaya.

Mochammad Iqbal Maulud – Students from various universities affiliated with the West Java chapter of the All-Indonesia Student Executive Board (BEM SI) staged a protest titled "Indonesia in a State of Emergency" (Indonesia Gawat Darurat) on Friday September 11.

Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Jakarta – Indonesian stocks declined for a second straight week, with the benchmark index and market capitalization falling as higher oil prices and foreign selling weighed on investor sentiment.

Basten Gokkon – Indonesia's critically endangered Javan rhinos appear to be safe despite an ongoing eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau near their last remaining habitat, conservation authorities said.

On 1 September 2026, security forces carried out an operation in the Kali Biru residential area around the former Election Commission Office (KPU), Dekai District, Yahukimo Regency, Papua Highlands Province. Local human rights defenders reported that six civilians were reportedly arrested and taken to the Yahukimo Police Station.

Jayapura, Jubi – A coalition of legal and human rights groups in Papua has called on Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto to order the National Police chief to investigate a series of alleged terror attacks targeting human rights workers, journalists and the Papua office of Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights, known as Komnas HAM.

Anwar Siswadi, Jakarta – Over one hundred students from several universities in Bandung took to the streets to stage the #Indonesia Gawat Darurat (#EmergencyIndonesia) protest on Friday afternoon, September 11, 2026. The demonstration took place in the middle of the Dago-Cikapayang intersection, directly under the Pasteur-Surapati (Paspati) overpass.

Almost all institutions established as part of the mandate of the 1998 Reformasi Movement have strayed from their original ideals. The Judicial Commission is no exception.

On 9 September 2026, an unidentified person threw a glass bottle containing an unknown liquid and an apparent wick into the compound of the Papua Regional Office of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) in Dok V Bawah, North Jayapura District, Jayapura City, Papua Province.

Jayapura, Jubi – The West Papua National Liberation Army's (TPNPB) Ndugama-Derakma regional command has claimed responsibility for a shooting that killed three civil servants in Jayawijaya Regency, in Indonesia's Highland Papua province.

Andi Adam Faturahman, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) met with Presidential Chief of Staff Dudung Abdurachman at the Bina Graha KSP Building in Jakarta on Thursday, September 10, 2026.

On 28 July 2026, police officers apprehended approximately 31 members of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) near the Old Market traffic lights on Jalan Pasar Lama Yahim, Sentani, Jayapura Regency, Papua Province, while they were distributing leaflets for a nationwide protest planned for 3 August 2026.

Dini Suciatiningrum, Jakarta – Amnesty International Indonesia strongly condemns the military education and training (diklat) program policy for citizens and students arrested following the August 27 protests in Jakarta.

Jayanty Nada Shofa & Ria Fortuna Wijaya, Jakarta – High maintenance costs and a shoestring budget have made Indonesia's fight against disasters more challenging, according to analysts.

Andriana Wirrotama – I took public transportation for granted when I lived in the United States, where I spent around seven years from high school through my early working years. I lived in the state of Maryland and regularly commuted into neighboring Washington, DC, but the journey was never something I had to think much about.

On 17 August 2026, a series of violent incidents in Pasir Putih Village, Jila District, Mimika Regency, Central Papua Province, reportedly resulted in the death of Mrs Neregingget Magai, 48, serious injury to another villager named Inkolung Aim, and the alleged abduction of nine young women.

Jamal Abdun Nashr, Jakarta – The Pati regency administration in Central Java has declared a suspected food poisoning case involving Indonesia's free nutritious meal program (MBG) an extraordinary event after hundreds of students and teachers reported nausea and diarrhea.

On 15 August 2026, Indonesian police and military personnel forcibly dispersed demonstrations organised by the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) together with students in Pos 7, Sentani, Jayapura Regency, and Perumnas III Waena, Waena Expo, Uncen Atas and the Abepura area in Jayapura City, Papua Province.

Andi F. Tanrigau – Indonesia has abundant tropical forests, mangrove ecosystems, and biomass resources, including agricultural and forestry residues – Together, these natural assets offer opportunities for economic development and the energy transition.

Radhiyya Indra and Gembong Hanung, Jakarta – Simultaneous volcano eruptions and a string of other disasters have put the government's mitigation efforts under renewed scrutiny, as questions mount over whether Indonesia has invested enough in prevention despite its long history of natural disasters.

Banjarmasin, Indonesia – Siti Sarah slept in fits and starts through August as the fires broke out around her village and surrounding peatlands. One fire on Aug. 18 at first seemed a safe distance away, but in a heartbeat the flames were within 100 meters (330 feet) of her home in Pengayuan, a village in Indonesia's South Kalimantan province.

Jayapura, Jubi – Papua Police have been urged to investigate an alleged Molotov cocktail attack on the Papua office of Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) in Jayapura.

The incident reportedly occurred at the Komnas HAM Papua representative office on Soa Siu Street in the Dok V Bawah area of North Jayapura on Wednesday, 9 September 2026.

Jayapura – The Papua Law Enforcement and Human Rights Coalition (KPHHP) is urged the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto, to immediately order the National Police Chief (Kapolri) to thoroughly investigate the Molotov cocktail attack on the Papua Representative Office of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) in Jayapura, Papua, as well as previous

Banjarmasin, Indonesia – As a strengthening El Nino fuels wildfires across much of Indonesia, NGO and government conservationists are at work in forests here trying to save an increasing number of orangutans from burning landscapes.

A civilian identified as BP, was reportedly shot dead by an off-duty police officer on 2 August 2026 at the Raffles Residence 3 housing estate, Block M, Mimika Baru District, Mimika Regency, Papua Tengah Province. The alleged shooter, identified as Aipda M, was an officer stationed at Mozes Kilangin Airport Police Station in Timika.

Muhammad Ihsan Syahreza, Panji Satrio, Medan, N – Sumatra. Several students in Karo regency, North Sumatra, are still receiving medical treatment weeks after 256 students were affected by suspected food poisoning linked to Indonesia's free nutritious meal program at their schools.

Antara, Jakarta – Indonesia's Finance Ministry revealed that the debt restructuring for the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (KCJB), known as Whoosh, sets an annual installment scheme of around Rp1 trillion (approximately US$56.7 million) over an 80-year tenor.

Andrew Mathieson – Indonesian forces have killed four West Papuan independence fighters inside the most volatile area of the disputed Indigenous territory in Western New Guinea.

Nandito Putra, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has signed a joint agreement between three ministries to integrate the licensing systems for foreign workers in Indonesia, aiming to simplify permit applications linked to investment projects and give investors greater certainty over processing times.

Ki Ageng Begawan Reksa – On the afternoon of Tuesday September 1, hundreds of students organised under the Gajah Mada University (UGM) Student Alliance and joined by various civil society elements marched from Wisma Kagama to the Gramedia Intersection on Jalan Jenderal Sudirman in Yogyakarta, Central Java.

On 30 August 2026, officers from the Nabire Police allegedly beat and arbitrarily detained indigenous community leader Yulius Edowai, 50, in front of SMKN 2 Jayanti in Nabire, Central Papua Province. Mr Edowai is a member of the Papuan Traditional Council.

Elaine Pearson – A military court in Jakarta reduced the prison sentences and overturned the dishonorable discharge of two of the four military personnel convicted for the March 2026 acid attack against human rights activist Andrie Yunus.

Mr Leonardo M. Konorop, a 38-year-old civilian and indigenous Papuan died on 8 September 2026 after sustaining severe head injuries during an alleged assault involving police officers and a suspected Indonesian military (TNI) member.

Merauke, Jubi – A 38-year-old man from Merauke Regency in South Papua, who was allegedly assaulted by police officers, has died after receiving intensive treatment in the ICU at Merauke Regional Public Hospital.

Grace Gandhi, Jakarta – A new study by the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) reveals that Indonesia is still relatively far from escaping the middle income trap, with a probability score of 0.44 compared to the threshold of 0.6, according to ADBI CEO Bambang Brodjonegoro.

Indah Handayani, Jakarta – Indonesia needs to strengthen its ability to keep businesses and critical economic networks running during disasters as the eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau and forest and land fires expose vulnerabilities in transport and logistics, the Kadin Indonesia Institute said.

Jayapura, Jubi – The West Papua National Committee (KNPB) has urged Indonesia to turn its words into concrete action over a proposed visit by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to West Papua, calling for a clear timetable, genuine access and meaningful engagement.

An unidentified man hurled a Molotov cocktail at the regional office of Indonesia's top rights body in restive Papua, the latest of a series of attacks targeting rights defenders and journalists in the Christian-majority region.

Jakarta – Forest and land fires throughout 2026 have once again become a source of large-scale emissions. WALHI has calculated the emissions resulting from these fires. Estimated emissions from burned vegetation from January through early September 2026 reached approximately 31 million metric tons of CO2.