Head of the Perpusnas E. Aminudin Aziz said the sharp funding cut has disrupted the agency's literacy works nationwide.

"It's true that the very drastic budget decline has disrupted works related to literacy," Aziz told lawmakers at a hearing with Commission X of the House of Representatives in Senayan, South Jakarta.

Saifullah, widely known as Gus Ipul, said the plan covers the Non-Cash Food Assistance program (BPNT) and the Family Hope Program (PKH), Indonesia's two main cash-based social aid schemes, both currently disbursed through bank transfers. 

"Of course, going forward, we will try to have this distributed through village cooperatives because the cooperatives will have service counters, one of which will be a State-Owned Bank Association counter," Gus Ipul said after a limited cabinet meeting with President Prabowo Subianto at Presidential Palace in Jakarta.

Phnom Penh City Administration Deputy Director Daw Samphor confirmed there were 61 locations across the capital have been identified as major hubs, linked to cyber crime activities. 

Authorities have arrested a Chinese national with several equipment in Teuk Thla Sangkat, two more suspects were caught in Borey Canadia development. The two locations are in Sen Sok District. 

The incident occurred on Thursday morning when soldiers on duty were checking and cleaning the storage and explosive devices said Army Spokesperson Brig.Gen. Donny Pramono during a press conference in Jakarta.

"According to an initial information that we've received, the incident took place when personnel conducting check and maintenance ammunitions in one of storages. In that incident, one personnel was declared death, four other suffer bad injured and two others minor wounded," the spokesperson said.

"Yes, it's allowed," Minister Ferry told reporters at the House of Representatives building in Central Jakarta, when asked whether village cooperatives could run mining businesses.

"In mining areas, in their own village territories," he reaffirmed, adding that cooperatives outside the KDMP program are also permitted to manage mining under Indonesia's 2020 Minerals and Coal Law (UU Minerba).

The explosion occurred around 10:15 a.m. local time in front of a classroom at the school, located   in Balai Gadang, Koto Tangah District, after the student, identified by police only by the initials R or RF, lit the fuse of a low-explosive device with a lighter.

The blast left scorch marks on a desk and the classroom's exterior wall and cracked part of the structure, but police confirmed no students or teachers were hurt.

The fire broke out Monday, 5 July in the Seuneubok Pusaka area of Trumon Timur, South Aceh, and quickly spread through peatland vegetation, burning including young trees, shrubs, ferns and oil palm, according to the agency, that is part of Indonesia's Forestry Ministry.

The blaze grew rapidly in its first days, expanding from an initial 20 hectares to 23 hectares by the second day and 28 hectares by later reports, before firefighting teams began gaining ground.

Authorities have been sending aids to affected people by opening about 4,000 shelters for IDPs who faces food shortages and crisis of clean drinking water. 

Furthermore, the Myanmar military-backed government distributed aid relief in cash as much as  5.7 million Taka or about US$46.9 thousand, including 643.4 tons of rice, 28,015 dry food packages, and many more to the impacted regions. 

The blaze broke out around midnight at the entertainment place in the capital's Chatuchak district, and according to witnesses, it started from the stage where live music was on show, .

By the time rescuers arrived, the fire had already burned through much of the venue, officials said. Firefighters took about 35 minutes to bring the flames under control.

The activist himself was arrested by police following August 2025 in many cities across Indonesia, protesting members of the House of Representatives for requesting luxury facilities while the people were under economic pressures. 

In the discussion, Speaker Naysilla Rose anchored the theoretical dimension of the forum around Thomas Hobbes' concept of Leviathan — the idea that citizens surrender a portion of their power to the state in exchange for protection and security. She argued that in Indonesians context, that contract has been inverted.

"The Leviathan that Hobbes imagined as a guardian — as a guarantor of rights — has today become the one doing harm to its own citizens," Rose said. 

"We need to rethink what an ideal social contract actually looks like, because that concept is being twisted and co-opted by the state itself," the social activist said.

Speakers also raised the question of information filtering within the executive, arguing that insulating the president from ground-level reality is ultimately unsustainable. Fakhrurrozi pointed to the recent budget cut to the free nutritious meal program or MBG as evidence that policy reality eventually breaks through.

"He still sees it. He will still see these protests happening...His subordinates keep telling him everything is fine — but people keep protesting," Fakhrurrozi or popular as Paul said referring to President Prabowo Subianto.

The discussion called on the public to continuously raise fundamental questions about the meaning of citizenship and the legitimacy of state authority, framing open civic discourse as a counterweight to what speakers called a regime increasingly prone to surveilling rather than serving its people.***

Bavi made two landfalls in Zhejiang province on Saturday, first striking the coastal city of Yuhuan around 11:20 p.m. local time before hitting Yueqing, part of Wenzhou, around midnight, with winds reaching 144 kph.

The storm had weakened to a tropical storm by Sunday morning as it moved inland, but forecasters warned it could still dump widespread rainfall across eastern and northern China in the coming days.

Roxana was abducted from her residence in Nanchital, Veracruz on 2 June and her remains were found on 3 July when police after examining some bones, found in  Moloacán town, had confirmed the death of the journalist.

The 32 Indian tourists are in Vietnam for a company's annual travel bonus and chosen Phu Quoc that has been popular recently among tourists from that country due to availability of direct flights and ease visa.

Indian Embassy in Hanoi on Saturday has released 32 names of Indian nationals who were onboard the boat as well as 15 fatalities, including two female, based on information and confirmation from Vietnam authorities.

The passenger only mentioned as a 61-year old man from Serbia, who was sitting in the window position, rescued by his wife who held his feet when the incident happened, as reported by local media.

The incident caused the changing of air pressure in the cabin, triggered oxygen masks came out and passengers used it to breath normally until the aircraft landed in Thessaloniki.

Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim country with about 80 percent of the population believe in Islamic teachings although the the archipelagic nation is secular. The MUI is the country's national regulatory body consists of Muslim ulemas.

Investigators from Indonesia's National Police (Polri) with Jakarta Metropolitan Police so far have raided 12 locations in Jakarta and Bogor, West Java regarding three big graft cases probe, and have found 74 kg gold bars and total cash from multi-currency estimated over 476 billion rupiah (US$) as well as have questioned 15 witnesses, however no suspect has been named.

The probe regarding three suspected graft cases - coal supply to power plants that triggered blackout, insurer Asabri, and steel maker Krakatau Steel - according to Jakarta Metropolitan Police Spokesperson Senior Commissioner Budi Hermanto on Friday, 10 July 2026 in a press conference, showcasing evidences seized from the 12 locations.

The blaze broke out around noon local time at footwear manufacturer Huiteng in Jinjiang's Chendai township, a city known as China's "shoe capital."

A total of 239 people, including 237 factory workers and two visitors, were in the building when the fire started, Xinhua reported.

Charge d' Affairs of British Embassy Bangkok David Thomas stated on Thursday 9 July 2026 about the bilateral cooperation, saying this measure reflects a commitment to the punishment prevention steps by deterring some people to be exploited by international criminal syndicates.

Furthermore,  this bilateral effort is part of two years of Thai-UK joint operations on border security, intelligence sharing and law enforcement.

SETARA Institute Chairperson Hendardi said the alleged actions by some army personnel to obstruct anti-corruption investigators from the national police and Jakarta police amounted to a serious incident.

"If it is true that this action was taken to protect a party under investigation or allegedly involved in a corruption case linked to an official within the AGO, then what is being shown to the public is not merely interference in the law enforcement process, but the use of the state's defense institution as a shield for the interests of corruptors," Hendardi said in a written statement.