The Indonesian National Museum caught fire and began burning at about 7.45 pm on Saturday, the 16th of September 2023 and by 8 pm the fire brigade had been called. They arrived within minutes of the call, as the fire department is situated close by. Despite the long dry season, the canal behind the Museum still had water in it and soon dirty canal water was being used to try to douse the fire which rose like an orange and red rooster flying to the top of a building at the back of the old section of the Museum - the part built between 1862 and 1868.

The Supreme Court (MA) restricted the ability of former corruption convicts to run as legislative election candidates less than five years after it reviewed the petitions filed by a number of parties, including the Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW), the Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem), and two former KPK chairmen Saut Situmorang and Abraham Samad.

The 43rd ASEAN Summit is officially concluded, resulting in 90 documents, two of which – that Indonesia initiated – are about employment. The Indonesian Manpower Minister highly commends the two final documents.