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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Tempo English compiled the top 3 news on Saturday, September 27, 2025. Here are the highlights: Indonesian Govt to Require Companies to Report Job Vacancies Starting 2026; “Java Man” Comes Home: Netherlands Returns Fossil Collection to Indonesia in Historic Move; and Indonesia’s BGN Apologizes After Free Nutritious Meals Sicken 6,000 Children.The following is the list of the top 3 news on Tempo English today:1. Indonesian Govt to Require Companies to Report Job Vacancies Starting 2026The Indonesian Manpower Ministry will enforce mandatory reporting of job vacancies for all companies starting in 2026. This policy applies to private companies, SOEs, and regional-owned enterprises, and the reporting will be done through the “Karirhub” (career hub) channel on the ministry’s SIAPkerja platform.”Currently, it is still in the advisory stage. But next year, we will firmly enforce it; it’s time to make it mandatory,” said the Head of the Labor Market Center of the Manpower Ministry, Surya Lukita Warman, during a media briefing at the ministry’s Manpower Market building, Jakarta, on Friday, September 26, 2025.Surya stated that the provision is based on Presidential Regulation Number 57 of 2023 concerning Mandatory Reporting of Job Vacancies (WLLP). The regulation requires employers to report their labor needs and how they place workers.Click here to read more2. “Java Man” Comes Home: Netherlands Returns Fossil Collection to Indonesia in Historic MoveAfter a long wait, the government of the Netherlands has finally returned theDubois collection, including the fossil of Homo erectus (formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus) to Indonesia. The ancient human fossil, known as “Java Man,” was discovered by Dutch anatomist Eugène Dubois in Trinil, Ngawi, Central Java in 1891 and has since been kept in a museum in the Netherlands.Dutch Minister of Education, Culture, and Science Gouke Moes symbolically handed over the collection to Indonesian Minister of Culture Fadli Zon on Friday, September 26, 2025, at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, Netherlands.According to Fadli Zon, this repatriation restores Indonesia’s sovereignty and a strategic victory after more than a century of knowledge about the origin of humans being separated from its homeland.Click here to read more3. Indonesia’s BGN Apologizes After Free Nutritious Meals Sicken 6,000 ChildrenNanik S. Dayeng, the deputy head of the National Nutrition Agency (BGN), has apologized for the numerous cases of mass food poisoning in the free nutritious meal program. To date, over 6,000 children are suspected of food poisoning after consuming the state-sanctioned free meal at school.”This is our fault as the organizer, and we ought to do a complete overhaul,” she said in a press conference, quoted from the agency’s Instagram live on Friday, September 26, 2025.Nanik cried while delivering the apology, stating “One live, one sick child, is our responsibility.”Click here to read moreClick here to get the latest news updates from Tempo on Google News