ISSUE No. 027 · Personal Edition · Est. 2026
Thursday, October 29, 2026
✈ 14 days until Jakarta


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Protesters across Indonesia are demanding accountability over wildfires, and their anger is spreading to wider government policy and civic space.
Students and civil society groups took to the streets across Indonesia on Wednesday, once again demanding that the government answer for the persistent wildfires. The protests also targeted President Prabowo Subianto's policies more broadly, and demonstrators voiced anger over what the Jakarta Post describes as shrinking civic space.
The fires are being worsened by the El Niño weather pattern, which leaves peatland vulnerable. Indonesia is now facing its worst forest fires, and the resulting haze, in 11 years. Anger over the smoke is mixing with wider frustration about how much room citizens have to speak, which makes the haze a political story as well as an environmental one.



The retailer is betting on up to 14 new U.S. stores a year and new product categories to become "world-famous."
Aritzia has set itself a big goal: double its revenue in five years and become "world-famous." The plan leans heavily on bricks and mortar, with the company intending to open as many as 14 stores in the U.S. every year.
It also plans to widen what it sells, expanding into bags, beauty and shoes. Opening stores and adding new product categories are the two levers the company is pulling together, according to Retail Dive's report. How quickly those new categories grow will show whether the ambition holds up.



New print titles and old favourites are both chasing young readers in an age ruled by algorithms.
Print is finding young readers again. New titles including WYouth and Cuqui are championing analog content, a deliberate counterweight to the age of algorithms. Meanwhile, established names Teen Vogue and Seventeen are taking a different route, meeting Zoomers and Gen Alphas where they already are: online.
Fashionista's piece sets the two approaches side by side, as answers to the same question: how do you reach a generation raised on feeds? One bets on paper and a slower pace, the other on being wherever young people scroll. Whether the print revival lasts is the open question, but the appetite for something different is clearly there.



A massive data leak includes undercover ICE agents, facility locations and workers' cellphone numbers.
A massive leak has exposed records on 41,000 Department of Homeland Security workers, including undercover ICE agents, WIRED reports. The records include the locations of ICE and CBP facilities, workers' cellphone numbers, and the members of groups tied to wiretap programs.
For people whose jobs depend on staying unseen, a list of phone numbers and facility locations is the kind of information that is hard to take back once it is out. The leak also touches on surveillance work, since the records name groups tied to wiretap programs. WIRED's report is the place to read the full detail of what was exposed.













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