A total of 1,300 gandrung dancers enlivened the 2025 Banyuwangi Gandrung Sewu Festival, which has "The Gandrung Shawl" as its theme, at Marina Boom Beach in Banyuwangi Regency on Oct. 25, 2025.

President Prabowo Subianto 's flagship free nutritious meal program has hit a critical juncture. Launched with the ambition of feeding millions and cementing his populist image, the program is now marred by reports of food poisoning, poor governance and slow budget absorption. In response, Prabowo has formed a high-level coordinating team to rescue the initiative before it collapses under its own weight.

East Kalimantan Province's investment realization reached Rp 23.36 trillion in the second quarter of 2025. East Kalimantan Investment and One-Stop Integrated Services Office (DPMPTSP) Head Fahmi Prima Laksana stated that this achievement marks a 29.38 percent year-on-year (yoy) growth compared to the Rp 16.5 trillion achieved in Q2 2024.

Tech giant PT GoTo Gojek Tokopedia has remained under intense public scrutiny throughout 2025. Entering the second quarter amid mounting investor pessimism and slowing revenue growth, GoTo's share price plunged by 24 percent in May — from Rp 85 per share at the end of April to Rp 64 at the end of May. The company's troubles deepened further in July when it became indirectly implicated in the corruption investigation involving former Education Minister Nadiem Makarim and the alleged misuse of Merdeka Belajar digital-procurement funds. Then, the law enforcement conducted a search of of GoTo's office that led them to discover yet another controversy involving GoTo.

The North Sumatra Provincial Government reported that the total realized investment value to North Sumatra reached Rp 42.36 trillion from 21,041 projects in the third quarter (Q3) of 2025.

President Prabowo Subianto, who often arrives at the presidential office in a locally produced Maung vehicle, has renewed his promise to create Indonesia's first official national car within the next three years. Whether he can succeed where his predecessors failed remains uncertain, as both Soeharto and Joko "Jokowi" Widodo saw their own national car dreams fade due to political and economic missteps.

The Yogyakarta City Government is once again holding the Travel Fair Tourism Exhibition 2025, a two-day promotional and collaborative event for the tourism industry held from Nov. 8–9, 2025, at Plaza Malioboro.