liputan6.com media bias and reliability
Media Bias/Fact Check places liputan6.com as leaning right. We have seen it on 6 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is liputan6.com biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places liputan6.com as leaning right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is liputan6.com left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places liputan6.com as leaning right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is liputan6.com reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for liputan6.com are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What liputan6.com has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with liputan6.com’s own report linked underneath.
An Indonesian passenger ship carrying 243 people has been reported missing after losing contact on Sunday, September 13, 2026. The vessel was travelling from Surabaya, East Java, to Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, and its last known position was in the Java Sea. Rescuers have launched a search operation.
liputan6.com reported it asChronology of the Virgo Transport Ship Carrying 243 People Losing Contact in the Java Sea (opens liputan6.com in a new tab)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin shared a car ride in Delhi on Friday. This was their fourth joint car journey, following previous instances in Bishkek and Tianjin. The leaders met at Bharat Mandapam before the BRICS summit.
liputan6.com reported it asPrabowo Arrives in India, Bringing Strategic Agenda to BRICS (opens liputan6.com in a new tab)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in New Delhi, discussing ways to boost bilateral trade to $100 billion by 2030. They reviewed progress in defence, energy, and space, and Modi gifted Putin a Russian translation of the Thirukkural.
liputan6.com reported it asPrabowo Arrives in India, Bringing Strategic Agenda to BRICS (opens liputan6.com in a new tab)
Eight Indonesian airports, including Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta and Halim Perdanakusuma, were closed on 7 September due to ash from the Mount Anak Krakatau eruption. The transport ministry reported 170,000 people were affected by flight cancellations.
liputan6.com reported it asBesides Soetta, the Closure of Three Other Airports Has Also Been Extended Until 8:59 a.m. WIB This Morning. (opens liputan6.com in a new tab)
Eight Indonesian airports, including Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta and Halim Perdanakusuma, were closed on 7 September due to ash from the Mount Anak Krakatau eruption. The transport ministry reported 170,000 people were affected by flight cancellations.
liputan6.com reported it asHalim Airport Closed Until 2:00 PM Due to Volcanic Ash From Anak Krakatau (opens liputan6.com in a new tab)
The Anak Krakatau volcano erupted on September 4-5, 2026, with an ash column observed by satellite. Loud booms were heard up to 150km away, and Indonesian authorities placed the volcano under Alert Level III, prohibiting access within a 3km radius.
liputan6.com reported it asAnak Krakatau Erupts in Series (opens liputan6.com in a new tab)
Eight Indonesian airports, including Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta and Halim Perdanakusuma, were closed on 7 September due to ash from the Mount Anak Krakatau eruption. The transport ministry reported 170,000 people were affected by flight cancellations.
liputan6.com reported it asAnak Krakatau Erupts in Series (opens liputan6.com in a new tab)
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan an "antisemitic dictator" in response to Turkey seeking an international arrest warrant for Netanyahu over alleged "genocide". The exchange escalates tensions between the two nations.
liputan6.com reported it asNetanyahu Cap Erdogan Diktator Antisemit (opens liputan6.com in a new tab)
Who says so
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How reliably it reports fact
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High factuality
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Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for liputan6.com.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- liputan6.com
- Seen publishing on
- liputan6.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 6
- Reports listed
- 8
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
8 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and liputan6.com ran the story anyway.
Across the 6 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of liputan6.com: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 20 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 18 September 2026. Ratings pulled 5 September 2026.
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