Today's Top 3 News: Prabowo to Visit Disaster-Affected Areas in Sumatra Ahead of New Year

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December 30, 2025 | 06:11 pm

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Tempo English compiled the top 3 news on Monday, December 29, 2025. Here are the highlights: Prabowo to Visit Disaster-Affected Areas in Sumatra Ahead of New Year; Prabowo Deploys Personal Helicopter to Support Disaster Relief in Sumatra; and 10,000 Workers to Protest at State Palace Tomorrow, Rejecting 2026 Minimum Wage.

The following is the list of the top 3 news on Tempo English today:

1. Prabowo to Visit Disaster-Affected Areas in Sumatra Ahead of New Year

President Prabowo Subianto plans to inspect disaster management efforts in Sumatra before the start of 2026. This was conveyed by the State Secretary Minister Prasetyo Hadi at Halim Perdanakusuma Air Base, Central Jakarta, on Monday, December 29, 2025. "It's planned like that," he said.

However, the presidential spokesperson has not yet specified the locations that Prabowo will visit. Previously, Prabowo had planned to visit Sumatra's disaster locations weekly. The head of state wants to monitor the development of disaster management.

"I plan to look at that area at least once a week to monitor the developments," he said during a plenary cabinet session at the State Palace, Central Jakarta, on Monday, December 15, 2025.

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2. Prabowo Deploys Personal Helicopter to Support Disaster Relief in Sumatra

President Prabowo Subianto has sent his personal helicopter since the first week of the floods and landslides that struck Sumatra at the end of November. Cabinet Secretary Teddy Indra Wijaya stated that the Governor of Aceh, Muzakir Manaf (also known as Mualem), and his disaster management team used the helicopter in the region.

"Since the first week of the disaster, the president immediately sent his personal helicopter to Aceh for use by the Governor of Aceh, his team, and their families. Please use it to travel around Aceh since the first week," he said at Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force Base on Monday, December 29, 2025, as monitored by the Presidential Secretariat on YouTube.

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3. 10,000 Workers to Protest at State Palace Tomorrow, Rejecting 2026 Minimum Wage

The President of the Indonesian Labor Party, Said Iqbal, said that workers would continue demonstrating against the increase in Jakarta's 2026 Provincial Minimum Wage (UMP) to Rp5.72 million on Tuesday, December 30, 2025. He claimed that 10,000 workers would participate in tomorrow's demonstration in front of the State Palace.

"Tomorrow, December 30, 2025, there will be 10,000 motorcycles from West Java entering Jakarta," he said in the Patung Kuda area, Central Jakarta, on Monday, December 29, 2025.

Today, the workers staged a protest against the increase in Jakarta's 2026 UMP to Rp5.72 million. They want the Jakarta's 2026 UMP to be in accordance with the decent standard of living (KHL), which is Rp5,898,511.

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Today's Top 3 News: Labor Unions to Stage Two-Day Protest Rejecting 2026 Minimum Wage

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