- 3d ago
Singapore votes to toughen haze law as Indonesia relations sour
Singapore's parliament voted on 4 November to raise haze fines tenfold and allow courts to try absent defendants, while wildfires in Indonesia keep smoke over the city-state and a gas dispute strains relations.
- 4d ago
Moeve sells its last upstream assets, Algerian oil stakes, to Pertamina
Moeve, the former Cepsa, has agreed to sell its stakes in three non-operated onshore fields in Algeria's Berkine basin to an Indonesian Pertamina unit. The sale completes its exit from exploration and production, pending Algerian authorisation.
- 4d ago
Indonesia arrests three senior police over wiretapping of President Prabowo
Police have detained three senior officers, including presidential chief of staff Listyo Sigit Prabowo, over alleged illegal phone taps on the president and other officials. The military is meanwhile deploying more than 20,000 troops to Jakarta, though authorities have not linked the two.
- 4d ago
NASA's Swift telescope falls to Earth over Sumatra after failed rescue
After 22 years in orbit, NASA's Swift telescope re-entered over Indonesia on Wednesday, 4 November, less than three months after a private rescue mission failed. Most of the spacecraft was expected to burn up, and no damage had been reported.
- Oct 22
Marc Márquez wins Australian MotoGP sprint as Jorge Martin breaks radius in crash
Ducati's Marc Márquez took the sprint at Phillip Island and moved into the championship lead after Jorge Martin crashed on lap 8 and fractured his radius. Martin will miss Sunday's race.
- Oct 21
Türkiye, Qatar, Pakistan and Indonesia sign Badr defence industry memorandum in Doha
The memorandum covers joint production, technology transfer and integrated defence supply chains. It was signed in Doha on Wednesday, 21 October 2026, during a visit by the defence representatives of the four countries.
- Oct 21
ECB warns eurozone food prices could rise again in 2027 as energy and weather shocks build
An ECB blog post published on Tuesday, 20 October 2026 projects eurozone food inflation reaching 3.4% in the third quarter of 2027. The authors point to an energy shock and extreme weather as the main risks.
- Oct 21
Singapore threatens legal action against 10 firms over Indonesian haze fires
Singapore has threatened legal action against 10 businesses it says are linked to Indonesian fires, as student protests grow in Indonesia and nearly 2 million hectares have burned this year.
- Oct 20
Indonesia's stocks rebound as authorities respond to MSCI downgrade threat
MSCI opened a consultation on moving Indonesia to standalone market status after the Jakarta index fell more than 11% on 16 October. Authorities responded with measures on 19 October, and the consultation runs until April 2027.
- Oct 17
Indonesian forest fires push Southeast Asia haze to highest ASEAN alert level
On Thursday, 15 October, four men died fighting forest fires in East Java, as smoke from Indonesia's blazes pushed the region to the highest level on the ASEAN haze alert scale.
- Oct 16
MSCI proposes stand-alone downgrade for Indonesia as Jakarta index plunges 11%
MSCI has launched a consultation on moving Indonesia to stand-alone status, which would remove it from all of its indexes. Jakarta's IDX Composite fell about 11% on Friday, 16 October, its sharpest one-day drop since January 1998.
- Oct 15
Indonesia's top Islamic council seeks cancellation of Andrea Bocelli's Borobudur and Jakarta concerts
Indonesia's Ulema Council wants Andrea Bocelli's 31 October concert at Borobudur and 3 November show in Jakarta cancelled. Magelang police have also withdrawn their recommendation for the Borobudur permit.
- Oct 13
Israel bars flight crews by nationality from Tel Aviv flights after alleged flydubai attack
Israel has told foreign airlines that pilots and cabin crew holding the nationality of 31 mostly Muslim-majority countries may not fly into its airspace, and Air France says it is complying. The rule followed an alleged attempt on 30 September to crash a flydubai flight into Ben Gurion airport.
- Oct 13
Indonesia tests dry ice to clear wildfire haze as smoke spreads to Singapore and Malaysia
A dry ice trial over South Sumatra is set for Thursday, 15 October, as El Niño-fuelled fires keep smoke hanging over Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia.
- Oct 11
Máximo Quiles clinches Moto3 world title with five rounds to spare in Indonesia
The 18-year-old Spaniard won the Indonesian Grand Prix at Mandalika from sixth on the grid and secured the championship with five rounds still to run.
- Oct 11
Márquez leads Martín by four points as MotoGP Indonesia race starts at Mandalika
Marc Márquez heads into Sunday's Indonesian Grand Prix four points ahead of Jorge Martín after winning Saturday's sprint, while Raul Fernandez starts from pole at the Mandalika circuit.
- Oct 10
Marc Márquez wins Indonesian MotoGP sprint and takes championship lead from Jorge Martín
Ducati rider Marc Márquez won the Mandalika sprint after Jorge Martín lost tyre pressure and ran wide late in the race. He now leads the championship by four points, with the Sunday Grand Prix still to come.
- Oct 9
Meta bans TikTok parent ByteDance from advertising in seven countries, including the US
The ban took effect on Thursday in the US, Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand and Vietnam, and also covers third-party ads that link to TikTok or other ByteDance apps.
- Oct 9
Singapore tops IQAir pollution ranking as Indonesian fires push haze into Malaysia and Singapore
Singapore's air quality index reached 216 on Friday morning, the highest in IQAir's ranking of world cities, as smoke from Indonesian forest and peat fires spread across the region. Malaysia closed schools in several states the same day.
- Oct 9
Malaysia closes schools in six places as Indonesian fire haze pushes air quality to unhealthy levels
More than 2 million students stayed home on Friday as smoke from Indonesian forest fires pushed Kuala Lumpur to around 170 on the Air Pollutant Index. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said he had personally contacted Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto.
