Indonesia

Story gist: Indonesia’s House of Representatives (DPR) requested no use of the formal greeting ‘Yang Terhormat’ during a meeting on the post-disaster situation in Aceh.

Bias summary: Left- and right-leaning outlets omitted coverage entirely. Center outlet detikNews framed the story neutrally in its headline, emphasizing the DPR’s request verbatim without added tone or context. Absence of left perspectives leaves potential critique of parliamentary protocol unaddressed; missing right coverage omits possible focus on disaster response priorities over formalities.

Story gist: The Indonesian government issued a regulation requiring restaurants, cafes, and hotels to pay royalties for songs played on premises.

Bias summary: Left- and right-leaning outlets provide no coverage, omitting progressive concerns over business burdens or conservative views on government overreach. Center outlet Kompas.com frames the story neutrally via the official title, emphasizing the regulation’s scope without tone, added emphasis, or omissions beyond basic facts.

Story gist: At the start of the new year, Indonesians rushed to tax offices to secure queue numbers for the Coretax program.

Bias summary: Left- and right-leaning outlets provided no coverage, omitting the story from those perspectives. Center outlet DDTCNews framed it neutrally as a ‘New Year phenomenon’ of crowds scrambling for tax office queue numbers to access Coretax, focusing on the event descriptively without added tone, emphasis, or judgment.

Story gist: Workers demonstrated against the provincial minimum wage (UMP) in Jakarta with low turnout. The story examines reasons for the small crowd size.

Bias summary: Left- and right-leaning outlets omitted coverage, absenting pro-labor mobilization narratives or business-friendly low-protest validations. Center outlet detikNews frames neutrally with explanatory title and analysis on turnout factors, emphasizing factual reasons without alarmist tone, advocacy, or economic spin.

Story gist: In Bogor, Indonesia, a tornado carried a wing from airplane wreckage onto a resident’s house.

Bias summary: Left- and right-leaning outlets omitted coverage of the incident. Center outlet Kompas.com used a headline emphasizing resident shock (‘Kaget’) and vivid details like the wing ‘nyangkut’ (stuck) in the house, carried by a tornado (‘Puting Beliung’), framing it as a surprising local event without broader context or analysis.