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Indonesian studio giant MD Entertainment will release a sequel to its 2025 horror smash “Pabrik Gula” in early 2028 and has Imax films planned for 2027, Astrid Wienardi, the company’s head of content licensing and global business, said Sunday at Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei. Wienardi delivered a presentation on how MD ties […]
After nearly 22 years of exploring the universe’s most violent explosions, NASA’s Swift Observatory has re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over Indonesia. Originally designed to last just two years, the pioneering space telescope transformed our understanding of black holes, exploding stars, and mysterious cosmic outbursts.
Horror stands out as a natural meeting ground for Taiwanese and Indonesian producers, according to a K7 Media study of the Indonesian film and TV market presented by Trang Nguyen at Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei. The stakes are considerable. Indonesia is Southeast Asia’s largest economy and its biggest film market, with box […]
Scandal is driving divisions between President Prabowo Subianto and predecessor Joko Widodo.
Indonesia is deploying thousands of troops in Jakarta amid an alleged wiretapping scandal targeting the president.
Indonesian troops are being stationed in Jakarta amid wiretapping allegations implicating the president's chief of staff. Suspects are being accused of illegally tapping the president's phones.
Governments in Singapore and Malaysia are split between anxious citizens and an irascible neighbour.
Persistent wildfires sparked by drought have enveloped the region in smog.
A number of clips show firefighters celebrating in the rain.
Months of forest fires and toxic haze in Indonesia has severely disrupted daily life.
Rain has offered brief relief from wildfires in Indonesia, but underground peat fires continue to burn
From student protests across France over the weekend and presidential elections in Brazil pitting leftist incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva against right-wing challenger Flavio Bolsonaro to wildfires in Indonesia, FRANCE 24 looks back at some of the most striking images from the past week.
Indonesian authorities seized 1.16 tonnes of ketamine from a Malaysian vessel in the Strait of Malacca.
Malaysia’s 47 million target was out of reach before the haze arrived; the year-end damage now depends on whether travelers rule out more than the worst-hit areas.
Indonesia’s film agency is helping draft a revised Film Law that would reshape its powers, while Jakarta, where Netflix now has four titles in production, is working to become a regional film hub. Fauzan Zidni, chair of the Indonesian Film Agency (BPI), tells Variety the first draft, prepared with the Ministry of Culture, has taken […]
The BBC's Liza Tambunan is in central Kalimantan, to explain what peat is and why Indonesia is facing its worst wildfire season in a decade.
Al Jazeera’s Osama Bin Javaid reports on the ‘Badr’ Memorandum of Understanding.
Experts say conflicts and uncertainty are accelerating efforts to strengthen regional military capacity.
A "Super El Niño" has fuelled months-long fires in Indonesia, making hundreds of thousands of people sick.
A fire broke out aboard the KMP Batumandi as the ferry approached Merak Port in western Indonesia on Tuesday
