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Front Page Lead·Feature·Apr 1, 2026

Indonesia Rations Fuel as $12.3 Billion Subsidy Buckles Under $100-Plus Oil

Indonesia is drawing the first hard line at the pump. Starting today — April 1, 2026 — the country's Downstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Agency (BPH Migas) has imposed sweeping new limits on how much subsidized and assigned fuel Indonesians can purchase, a direct response to oil prices that have blown...

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Indonesia Rations Fuel as $12.3 Billion Subsidy Buckles Under $100-Plus Oil

Powell Kills the Rate-Hike Trade: Fed Chair's Harvard Speech Collapses Tightening Bets from 52% to 2%

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Powell Kills the Rate-Hike Trade: Fed Chair's Harvard Speech Collapses Tightening Bets from 52% to 2%

Powell Kills the Rate-Hike Trade: Fed Chair's Harvard Speech Collapses Tightening Bets from 52% to 2% Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a market-moving speech at Harvard University on Monday that effectively terminated the most aggressively priced-in Fed trade since Liberation Day: the...

Mar 31, 2026

Trump Eyes Iran War Exit as Oil Drops 3 From Peak, Asia Markets Whipsaw

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Trump Eyes Iran War Exit as Oil Drops 3 From Peak, Asia Markets Whipsaw

Trump Eyes Iran War Exit as Oil Drops $13 from Peak, Asia Markets Whipsaw on WSJ Report The financial world pivoted sharply on Tuesday as a single Wall Street Journal report upended the dominant trade of 2026: a Wall Street Journal story, published late Monday U.S. time, revealed that President Don...

Mar 31, 2026

Defiant Prabowo Spars With Market Skeptics in Bloomberg Interview — Blasts MSCI 'Idiocy,' Defends Fiscal Discipline

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Defiant Prabowo Spars With Market Skeptics in Bloomberg Interview — Blasts MSCI 'Idiocy,' Defends Fiscal Discipline

In a rare and remarkably candid interview with Bloomberg News at his hilltop estate in Hambalang, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto delivered a defiant message to markets: you do not understand me, but you will. The weekend sit-down — Prabowo's first major interview with an international media...

Mar 17, 2026

Rescue workers and excavators search for victims at the Bantargebang landfill site in Bekasi following the deadly garbage landslide. (Photo: ANTARA/WhatsApp)

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Bantargebang Landfill Collapse Kills Four, Five Still Missing as Minister Demands Accountability

A massive garbage landslide at Indonesia's largest landfill in Bekasi has killed at least four people and left five missing. Environment Minister Hanif Faisol Nurofiq demands criminal accountability as 200+ rescuers search through 55 million tons of accumulated waste.

Mar 9, 2026

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Magnitude 5.5 Earthquake Strikes Southern Sumatra as Authorities Assess Impact

## What Happened A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck southern Sumatra on Saturday, according to Germany's GFZ geosciences center, with the epicenter reported in Indonesia's southern Sumatra region. Early reports distributed through international wire services indicated a moderate tremor level, enough...

Mar 8, 2026

A missile launched from Iran during retaliatory strikes against US and Israeli forces in the Middle East. (Photo: NBC News/Reuters)

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Russia Is Feeding Iran Satellite Intelligence to Target US Forces — And It Could Keep Oil Above $90 for Weeks

## Moscow's Shadow War Makes Hormuz Resolution Harder — And Indonesia's Oil Bill Keeps Growing The US-Israel war on Iran just got significantly more complicated. US officials have confirmed that Russia is providing Iran with satellite imagery and intelligence data on the locations of American wars...

Mar 7, 2026

Indonesian students in Iran preparing for evacuation as the war enters its second week. (Photo: Tempo)

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Indonesia Begins Evacuating 329 Citizens from Iran as War Enters Its Second Week

Indonesia began evacuating its 329 citizens from Iran on Friday, routing them overland through Azerbaijan as airspace remains closed. Most are students in Qom. Half a million Indonesians across the wider Middle East remain at risk.

Mar 6, 2026

Satellite view showing strike locations across Iran and the Middle East during the seventh day of the US-Israeli war. (Photo: BBC News)

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Day Seven: Trump Incites Kurdish Rebellion, Iran Refuses to Negotiate, and Israel Launches 'Broad-Scale' Attack on Tehran

Trump encourages Kurdish insurgency inside Iran, Foreign Minister Araghchi refuses all negotiations, and Israel launches broad-scale overnight strikes on Tehran as the war enters its second week with no off-ramp.

Mar 6, 2026

Smoke billows over Tehran during continued U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian infrastructure, day six of the war. (Photo: Reuters via Al Jazeera)

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Israel Bombs Beirut as Trump Demands a Say in Choosing Iran's Next Supreme Leader

The war crossed another threshold overnight as Israeli jets struck Beirut's densely populated Dahiya suburbs and IDF ground forces crossed into southern Lebanon. Meanwhile, Trump told Axios he must be 'involved in the appointment' of Khamenei's successor — rejecting front-runner Mojtaba Khamenei as 'a lightweight.'

Mar 6, 2026

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The War Comes Home to the Gulf: Iran Strikes Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia as Conflict Shatters the Region's Safe-Haven Status

For the first time, Iran's retaliation has reached the Gulf monarchies directly. UAE intercepted 125 drones and 6 missiles, Bahrain's oil refinery was struck, Qatari jets shot down Iranian bombers near Al Udeid, and Saudi Arabia scrambled to intercept cruise missiles — transforming the entire Persian Gulf into an active war zone.

Mar 5, 2026

Aftermath of a drone strike at Nakhchivan Airport in Azerbaijan's exclave bordering Iran, March 5, 2026. (Photo: Al Jazeera)

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The War Spills North: Iranian Drones Strike Azerbaijan's Airport as Conflict Opens Yet Another Front

## A New Front in an Expanding War The Iran conflict crossed another border on Thursday. Two Iranian drones struck Azerbaijan's autonomous Nakhchivan exclave — a territory that borders Iran to the south and Turkey to the west. One drone hit the terminal building of Nakhchivan Airport. Another land...

Mar 5, 2026

Passengers stranded at a Middle East airport as flights remain grounded due to the Iran conflict, March 2, 2026. (Photo: Reuters)

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58,000 Indonesians Stranded in Saudi Arabia: The Ramadan Pilgrimage That Became a Humanitarian Crisis

## They Came for God. They Got Stuck in a War. When more than 58,000 Indonesian citizens traveled to Saudi Arabia in late February for Umrah — the lesser pilgrimage to Islam's holiest sites — they expected a week of prayer, reflection, and spiritual renewal during Ramadan. What they got instead wa...

Mar 5, 2026

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The Strait Is Closed: Five Tankers Hit, Insurance Pulled, and 20% of the World's Oil Supply in Limbo

## The World's Most Important Waterway Has Gone Dark For five days now, the Strait of Hormuz — the 21-mile-wide passage between Iran and Oman through which roughly **20% of the world's daily oil supply** flows — has been effectively shut down. Tanker traffic has collapsed from normal levels to nea...

Mar 5, 2026

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Loud Words, Empty Hands: How Russia and China Are Playing the Iran War Without Fighting It

Russia calls the strikes "unprovoked aggression." China demands an "immediate cessation." Neither has provided military support. An AI analysis of why Moscow and Beijing chose words over weapons — and what they stand to gain from Iran's pain.

Mar 5, 2026

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Day Five: A Submarine Strike, a Succession Crisis, and a War With No Exit Ramp

The fifth day of the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran brings a submarine strike, NATO missile intercepts, an Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon, and a succession crisis in Tehran — with no diplomatic off-ramp in sight.

Mar 5, 2026