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Indonesia halts forest destruction for rice paddies

Rank
Running: 20h
Updated: 15h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 6
Regions: 2
Countries: 5
Languages: 1

Free Malaysia Today Malaysia · English 6 Oct, 08:32 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

The only language so far · English, 6 reports

Read at Free Malaysia Today

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Free Malaysia Today, 6 Oct, 08:32 UTC.
Second country: Singapore, with CNA.
Second region: Middle East, with Asharq Al-Awsat.
Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 6 Oct, 08:32 UTC.
Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

83%17%

Asia-Pacific 5 outlets · 4 countries · 83%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%

First movers

Free Malaysia Today 6 Oct, 08:32 UTC
Malay Mail +9m
CNA +19m
Asharq Al-Awsat +47m
Republica +3h 23m

Latest arrivals

Antara 6 Oct, 14:04 UTC
Republica 6 Oct, 11:56 UTC
Asharq Al-Awsat 6 Oct, 09:19 UTC
CNA 6 Oct, 08:52 UTC
Malay Mail 6 Oct, 08:42 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 2 state-owned, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 4: Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore. Middle East 1: Saudi Arabia. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English.
Timeline: Earliest article Free Malaysia Today, 6 Oct 2026, 08:32 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 08:50 UTC. Last seen 6 Oct 2026, 14:04 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Asia-Pacific, Indonesia. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.32, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

6 Oct 2026 215 4.17 6 5 6 5 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 6 Oct, 08:50 UTC · Updated 14:04 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 5 outlets

Antara Indonesia 6 Oct, 14:04 UTC
Indonesia sees no need to clear forests for new rice fields
Republica Nepal 6 Oct, 11:56 UTC
Indonesia says will halt forest destruction for rice paddies
+1 more articleHide 1 more article
- Indonesia says will halt forest destruction for rice paddies 6 Oct, 11:56 UTC
CNA Singapore 6 Oct, 08:52 UTC
Indonesia says will halt forest destruction for rice paddies
Malay Mail Malaysia 6 Oct, 08:42 UTC
Indonesia says will halt forest destruction for rice paddies
Free Malaysia Today Malaysia 6 Oct, 08:32 UTC
Indonesia says will halt forest destruction for rice paddies

Middle East 1 outlet

Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia 6 Oct, 09:19 UTC
Indonesia Says Will Halt Forest Destruction for Rice Paddies