The Big Picture

As of September 11, 2026 · covering January 1, 2026 – September 11, 2026

Every month of 2026 has read badly from outside, pulled down by household money, a state that keeps widening its reach, and disasters that outrun the recovery.

• Household money did the most damage of any single theme, and the sharpest moment came in June, when the rupiah broke past 18,000 to the dollar, weaker than in the 1997-98 crisis.
• Foreign analysts have tracked the army's move into civilian work since June, when soldiers took on farming, building and programme delivery, and the same question now reaches courts, newsrooms and mass organisations.
• The last six weeks have been the year's hardest: August was the heaviest month by volume, September is bleaker measured story for story, and the fires have now reached the construction site of the new capital.
• Genuine good news has stayed rare all year, fewer than one story in seven, and most of it held foreign attention for a week or two at best (see below).

Trend

A 3-week rolling average, so the line moves in a narrower band than any single story.

Day-by-day

Every day as one square, calendar-style: weeks across, weekdays down. Colour shows direction, shade shows strength.

Sentiment tracks the outlook for Indonesia, not the writer's tone. It stayed net-negative all year on the numbers, not a glitch. Hover any point or square for detail.

Show the numbers as a table

Month	Stories	Net outlook	Avg / story	Mood
January	17	-13	-0.76	Negative
February	8	-5	-0.63	Negative
March	13	-9	-0.69	Negative
April	12	-7	-0.58	Negative
May	12	-7	-0.58	Negative
June	15	-12	-0.80	Negative
July	56	-31	-0.55	Negative
August	71	-54	-0.76	Negative
September	29	-30	-1.03	Negative

By country

Where the coverage comes from. Each bar is one country, sized by how many stories ran; colour shows how those stories split between worse, neutral, and better for Indonesia. Net is the sum of their scores.

Plus 1 story from sources not yet mapped to a country.

Topics

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