Indonesia

Story gist: Jakarta residents visited the Imlek festival at Bundaran HI. The event featured many photo spots.

Bias summary: Left- and right-leaning outlets provided no coverage, omitting any progressive or conservative framing of the cultural event. Center outlet detikNews emphasized public enthusiasm and photo opportunities in a positive, neutral tone, focusing on attendance and attractions without political context or criticism.

Story gist: Indonesia’s BRIN and BMKG used scientific calculations to analyze the start of Ramadan. Their findings indicate potential differences in fasting start dates, with many countries expected to begin on February 19, 2026.

Bias summary: Left- and right-leaning outlets omitted coverage entirely, leaving no partisan perspectives on the scientific Ramadan analysis. Center outlet kontan.co.id frames the story neutrally, focusing on potential date variations and international differences without emphasis on religious, cultural, or predictive controversies.

Story gist: Content creators intending to film horror content discovered a decomposing corpse in Kampung Gajah, Lembang.

Bias summary: Left- and right-leaning outlets provided no coverage, leaving progressive and conservative perspectives absent. Center outlets like Kompas.com frame the story neutrally, focusing on the factual discovery by horror content creators of a rotting corpse in Kampung Gajah, Lembang, with descriptive but unemotional language. PRFM News adds ‘Geger!’ for sensational emphasis on shock value.

Story gist: Reports questioned whether the deactivation of 11 million BPJS PBI accounts followed presidential instruction. Indonesia’s Ministry of Health directed hospitals not to reject patients with temporarily deactivated PBI-JK status.

Bias summary: Left- and right-leaning outlets provided no coverage, omitting progressive concerns over access to healthcare for the poor or conservative critiques of government inefficiency. Center outlets emphasized the Ministry of Health’s directive ensuring hospitals treat temporarily deactivated PBI-JK patients, focusing on continuity of care while downplaying deactivation scale and unverified presidential involvement.

Story gist: In Gaza, residents including Mahmoud searched for family members in building rubble following Israeli strikes.

Bias summary: Left-leaning Tirto.id frames Israel using thermobaric bombs to ‘eliminate’ Palestinians, with accusatory tone emphasizing weapon’s destructive intent. Center Kompas.id focuses on those finding family in rubble, neutral human interest without blame. Right-leaning Republika personalizes Mahmoud’s sorrowful search, sympathetic to victims but omits military specifics. Left highlights aggression; center/right emphasize personal loss.