A number of civil society organizations collaborated to produce Pig Feast, a documentary film depicting deforestation, militarism, and the resistance of Indigenous Papuan communities against the government’s food estate project. Soldiers, officials, and academics moved to block screenings of the film in various regions. There were indications of coordinated orders to censor it.

The government is recruiting managers for the Red-and-White village cooperatives. Ministries involved in the selection process hold differing views.

Parties remain divided over parliamentary thresholds and the electoral system. A regulation in lieu of law looms if talks deadlock.

The government grapples with vaccine shortages and regulatory hurdles in containing the measles outbreak, as anti-vaccine sentiment rises, fueled by disinformation.

PDI-P criticizes the government but does not want to distance itself from Prabowo Subianto. It seeks protection from external threats.