The Big Picture

As of November 10, 2026 · covering January 1, 2026 – November 10, 2026

Every month of 2026 has read badly from outside, pulled down mostly by the cost of living, a fire season with no end date, and a state that keeps claiming more ground.

• The heaviest drag has been financial, first when the rupiah broke past 18,000 to the dollar in June, then in October when MSCI threatened to drop Indonesia from the list global funds follow.
• The burning ran alongside it for months and now carries a human figure: more than 5,200 deaths tied to two months of smoke.
• September and October landed at almost the same weight per story, and November has so far been slightly less heavy, with the subject moving from smoke to a spying case climbing through the police and the palace.
• Good news stayed scarce all year, and only a handful of stories carried any lift in them (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	69	-68	-0.99	Negative
October	58	-56	-0.97	Negative
November	12	-10	-0.83	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.

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