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The third explosion of 27 August 1883 destroyed over 70% of the island and remains the loudest sound in recorded history, audible in Perth and near Mauritius. The eruption and its tsunamis killed at least 36,417 people.

Cafe Batavia opened in 1993 in the second-oldest building on Jakarta's old town square, a Dutch colonial house restored as a restaurant, with teak floors, ceiling fans and walls papered in old portraits. It faces the former city hall across the cobbles of Fatahillah Square.

A magnitude 9.1 megathrust rupture off Aceh generated a tsunami that crossed the Indian Ocean and struck coastlines from Indonesia to East Africa. It is the third-largest earthquake ever instrumentally recorded.

Karpowership dispatched the floating power plant Yasin Bey from Istanbul on a four-week voyage to Ambon, Indonesia, where the 125 MW vessel would moor offshore to supply the island’s grid.

Indonesia opened the 140.9km Bakauheni-Terbanggi Besar toll road in Lampung, the flagship first section of the Trans Sumatera Toll Road network built by state contractor Hutama Karya.

Indonesia's Attorney General named four suspects in a cooking-oil export-permit graft case, among them Master Parulian Tumanggor, a commissioner of Wilmar's unit Wilmar Nabati Indonesia, and the trade ministry's foreign-trade chief.

Indonesia's competition commission fined seven cooking-oil makers Rp 71.28 billion for restricting sales during the 2022 shortage, including Wilmar's PT Multimas Nabati Asahan (Rp 8.018 billion) and PT Sinar Alam Permai (Rp 3.365 billion).

Prosecutors named Wilmar Group, Permata Hijau Group and Musim Mas Group corporate suspects, saying the final ruling against their executives showed the companies caused Rp 6.47 trillion in state losses.

A Central Jakarta anti-corruption court panel led by Judge Djuyamto found Wilmar Group, Musim Mas and Permata Hijau had done what prosecutors charged but ruled it was not a crime, rejecting a Rp 11.88 trillion restitution demand against Wilmar.

Prosecutors named the three judges who cleared Wilmar, Musim Mas and Permata Hijau as bribery suspects, alleging Rp 60 billion was arranged through lawyers and a court clerk to buy the verdict.

Prosecutors displayed stacks of cash from Rp 11.88 trillion (about US$729 million) handed over by five Wilmar subsidiaries, the biggest seizure in the AGO's history, while their appeal against Wilmar's acquittal was pending.

Indonesian police named the president director, factory head and quality-control head of Wilmar's rice unit PT Padi Indonesia Maju suspects for selling premium rice under Fortune, Sania, Siip and Sovia that failed quality and weight standards.

Indonesia's Supreme Court found five Wilmar subsidiaries guilty in the cooking-oil export case, fining each Rp 1 billion and ordering Rp 11.88 trillion (about US$709 million) in compensation, which Wilmar said would push it to a third-quarter loss.

With President Prabowo Subianto watching in front of about Rp 2 trillion in stacked banknotes, the Attorney General handed Rp 13.255 trillion recovered from Wilmar, Musim Mas and Permata Hijau to the finance minister.

The Jakarta anti-corruption court jailed the general manager of Wilmar's PT Duta Sugar International for four years over 2016 raw-sugar imports, and his company's Rp 41.2 billion deposit was forfeited as restitution.

The Jakarta anti-corruption court sentenced judges Djuyamto, Agam Syarief Baharuddin and Ali Muhtarom to 11 years each for taking bribes to acquit Wilmar, Musim Mas and Permata Hijau; former court chief Muhammad Arif Nuryanta got 12.5 years.

Acclaimed eco-lifestyle bamboo sanctuary in Ubud created by John Hardy, featuring natural spring pools, bamboo treehouses, and permaculture dining over river rapids.

Jakarta's government targeted September 2026 to break ground on its 19km stretch of a hybrid concrete-and-mangrove sea wall, part of a revised, roughly 500km national coastal defence plan that has replaced the earlier Garuda-shaped bird design.

The Jakarta anti-corruption court sentenced Muhammad Syafei, head of social security legal at Wilmar's Indonesian unit, to six years for helping channel about Rp 60 billion (US$4 million) in bribes to the judges who acquitted Wilmar.

On appeal, the Jakarta High Court raised the sentence of Wilmar's former legal head Muhammad Syafei from six to eight years and his fine to Rp 500 million for helping bribe the judges who acquitted Wilmar.

Prosecutors detained former Ombudsman member Yeka Hendra Fatika, accusing him of rewriting a 2022 cooking-oil report into ammunition for the palm oil companies' defence and of taking money from Wilmar Group.

The Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show opened to the press on 29 July 2026 and ran to 9 August at ICE BSD City, where Leapmotor launched in Indonesia and Zeekr debuted as Chinese-brand sales rose 82%.

Anak Krakatau, the volcano in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra, erupted continuously for about 25 hours from 11:07 pm local time on Friday 4 September 2026, subsiding shortly after midnight on Sunday, according to PVMBG, Indonesia's volcanology agency, as reported by The Star. It then erupted three times on Tuesday 8 September and again at 12:47 am on Wednesday 9 September, for 28 seconds; BMKG's analysis of Himawari-9 satellite imagery showed ash up to 7,000 feet (about 2,134 m) drifting northwest over part of Lampung Bay. The volcano is at Level III of Indonesia's four-level scale, and authorities warned that the potential for more eruptions remains high; the report says recent eruptions disrupted air travel across parts of western Indonesia. The NASA satellite pictures from 4, 5 and 6 September show the lead-up, a long brown ash plume streaming west from the volcano on the 5th, and the haze that remained afterwards.

Dyandra Promosindo launched the Indonesia International Motor Show 2027 for 6 to 16 May at JIExpo Kemayoran in Jakarta, with the exhibition area enlarged to 158,339 square metres.