Government will not use "Isa Almasih" (The Messiah), Islamic name adopted from Arabic for Jesus Christ, to refer to Christian holidays and will replace it with "Yesus Kristus"; the nomenclature change was announced by the Ministry of Religious Affairs

A female Sumatran elephant, a subspecies of the Asian elephant considered to be at serious risk of extinction, was born in the Buluh China Nature Park in north-west Sumatra; the WWF estimates that there are now only between 2.400 and 2.800 individuals

In Jakarta teenagers are being trained in urban farming practices, including vertical planting, hydroponics and organic composting, to foster local food production and reduce dependency on global supply chains

State-owned PT PLN is supplying electricity to a 1 million-hectare food estate in Merauke, South Papua, with its Electrifying Agriculture program that aims to replace diesel-powered with electric tools for a more sustainable and productive agriculture