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Indonesia suspends officials over luxury prison cells scandal

Rank
Ran
25h
Updated
5d ago
Final
Outlets
9
Regions
4
Countries
8
Languages
4

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South China Morning Post Hong Kong · English 29 Sept, 08:14 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

Read it also in Română (1) · Tiếng Việt (1) · नेपाली (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 9 after 26 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: South China Morning Post, 29 Sept, 08:14 UTC.
  2. Second country: Canada, with CTV News.
  3. Second region: Americas, with CTV News.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 29 Sept, 13:30 UTC.
  5. Last article: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

26 of 26 hours

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The 8 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

33%45%

  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
  • Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 3 countries · 33%
  • Europe 4 outlets · 3 countries · 45%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%

First movers

  1. South China Morning Post 29 Sept, 08:14 UTC
  2. CTV News +5h 16m
  3. Adevărul +5h 54m
  4. Al Jazeera +16h 44m
  5. Dân Trí +18h 15m

Last to join

  1. The Independent 30 Sept, 09:53 UTC
  2. Ratopati 30 Sept, 07:02 UTC
  3. The Guardian 30 Sept, 05:27 UTC
  4. Euronews 30 Sept, 05:19 UTC
  5. Dân Trí 30 Sept, 02:29 UTC

The figures

Coverage
9 outlets in 8 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 9 outlets, 2 state-owned, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: Canada. Asia-Pacific 3: Hong Kong, Nepal, Vietnam. Europe 3: France, Romania, United Kingdom. Middle East 1: Qatar. 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, Nepali, Romanian, Vietnamese.
Timeline
Earliest article South China Morning Post, 29 Sept 2026, 08:14 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 08:20 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 09:53 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 Politics. 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
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. 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.
Chain
Continued by Indonesia đình chỉ 5 quan chức sau vụ “nhà tù hạng sang”. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
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
30 Sept 2026 398 3.28 9 8 6 5 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 29 Sept, 08:20 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 09:53 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

  • CTV News Canada 29 Sept, 13:30 UTC
    Indonesia suspends officials over inquiry into luxury prison cells

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

  • Ratopati Nepal 30 Sept, 07:02 UTC
    इन्डोनेसियाको जेलभित्रै कैदीका लागि लक्जरी अपार्टमेन्ट, जेल प्रमुखसहित पाँच अधिकारी निलम्बित
  • Dân Trí Vietnam 30 Sept, 02:29 UTC
    Indonesia đình chỉ 5 quan chức vì vụ bê bối nhà tù "giống như biệt thự"
  • South China Morning Post Hong Kong 29 Sept, 08:14 UTC
    Indonesian prison chief suspended over secret VIP compound for inmates

Europe 4 outlets

  • The Independent United Kingdom 30 Sept, 09:53 UTC
    Indonesia razes luxury facility inside prison for favored inmates, in photos
  • The Guardian United Kingdom 30 Sept, 05:27 UTC
    Double beds, aircon and big-screen TVs: Indonesia suspends officials over luxury prison cells
  • Euronews France 30 Sept, 05:19 UTC
    Luxury compound uncovered inside Indonesian prison
  • Adevărul Romania 29 Sept, 14:09 UTC
    Lux în spatele gratiilor: apartamente secrete pentru deținuții bogați din Indonezia. Oficiali anchetați

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Al Jazeera Qatar 30 Sept, 00:58 UTC
    Indonesia suspends five officials over luxury apartments for inmates
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