Indonesian news API

What the coverage looks like

High publication frequency from a moderate number of outlets, several of which are very prolific. The result is respectable article volume with narrower outlet spread than the count suggests, so a topic can look well covered when a few publishers are producing most of it. The publishing rhythm is heavily weighted towards the working day and drops sharply overnight and at weekends, more so than in most languages of comparable size. Combined with the concentration among a few prolific outlets, this means that both the time of day and the choice of publishers materially change what a query returns, and neither effect is obvious from the totals.

Outlet spread is the number worth watching here, not volume. 33 distinct publishers at roughly 77 articles each describes a very different information environment than the same total produced by a handful of prolific sources — and it is the difference between reaching independent reporting and reading one newsroom repeatedly.

In this sample the most active publisher is tribunnews.com, carrying about 41% of Indonesian articles on its own, and the three busiest — tribunnews.com, kompas.com, antaranews.com — account for roughly 63% between them. That is a concentrated distribution, so a query returning a lot of Indonesian results may be reaching fewer independent newsrooms than the count implies. Scope by outlet if you need breadth rather than volume.

What is the ISO 639-3 code for Indonesian?

ind. Pass it as the language filter on any endpoint. Indonesian is written in Latin.

What does Latin script mean for Indonesian search results?

Latin script with no diacritics and relatively simple morphology by regional standards, though affixation still changes stems in ways that break exact matching. Loanwords from English, Dutch and Arabic appear in multiple spellings.

Which retrieval mode should I use for Indonesian news?

Hybrid mode works well here — the script is friendly to keyword matching in a way most non-European languages are not, while semantic matching covers the affixation. Check outlet spread rather than article count before concluding a topic is well covered.

Bound every request with a time range regardless of mode. Meaning-based retrieval always returns its best guesses, so an unbounded query produces a confident-looking result set anchored to nothing in particular. If results feed a model rather than a person, collapse to stories as well — one event covered by thirty outlets should cost you one item, not thirty.

Recent headlines in Bahasa Indonesia

Pulled from the index on 2026-07-31, shown in their original script so you can see what the API actually returns rather than a translated approximation of it.

• Taufik: Tunggu pengumuman PBSI terkait undur diri Jafar/Felisha antaranews.com
• Rudianto Tjen Minta Pemprov Babel Kaji Matang Rencana Utang Rp293 Miliar untuk RS Jantung tribunnews.com
• Iran klaim hancurkan tiga jet F-35 AS di pangkalan udara Yordania antaranews.com
• BPBD Bandar Lampung Salurkan Air Bersih untuk 2.122 Jiwa di Dua Kecamatan tribunnews.com
• Ditegur Lesti Kejora karena Sering 'Gak Tegaan', Rizky Billar Mantap Penjarakan Penyebar Fitnah tribunnews.com
• Daftar Tanggal Merah Hari Libur dan Cuti Bersama Kalender Agustus 2026 Serta Long Weekend tribunnews.com

Outlets publishing in Indonesian

The most active publishers in this language, by article count. Use these as an outlet filter when you want to pin a particular market or editorial position rather than taking the whole language.

tribunnews.com · kompas.com · antaranews.com · jawapos.com · liputan6.com · viva.co.id · jpnn.com · koran-jakarta.com · republika.co.id · okezone.com · sindonews.com · merdeka.com

What catches people out when querying Indonesian?

The distortion here is a moderate number of very prolific outlets producing most of the volume, so a topic can look well covered when a handful of publishers are generating nearly all of it. Outlet spread and article count diverge more than usual.

A worked case

Check outlet spread before concluding a topic is well covered. Hybrid mode works better here than in most non-European languages, since the script is friendly to keyword matching while semantic matching covers the affixation. For commodities and regional Southeast Asian affairs this is a strong primary source.

Where this language leads

Strong on domestic politics, commodities and regional Southeast Asian affairs. Technology coverage is growing but still concentrated.

Who queries it, and why

Queried for commodities, domestic politics and regional Southeast Asian affairs. The concentration among a few prolific publishers means outlet spread deserves a look before anyone concludes a topic is well covered.

Reading these numbers

Provisional. Measured from one ingestion adapter's public feed rather than from the index itself. Outlets and headlines are real; the counts are the right order of magnitude and are not coverage guarantees.