In addition to building its flagship factory, the Vietnamese EV manufacturer is also planning to develop charging stations in Indonesia through Vingroup's recently launched V-Green business unit.

Indonesia is hosting the Global Digital Transformation Center (DTC) Workshop 2024, organized by International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a United Nations agency specializing in information and communication technology (ICT), and multinational technology company Cisco, the annual workshop brings together the focal points of all digital transformation centers from Asia and the Pacific, Africa, the Americas and Arab regions.

The government has pushed back rules that will make halal certificates mandatory for medium, small and micro enterprises (MSMEs) in the food and beverage industry.

The state-owned oil and gas giant's renewable energy arm is aiming to increase capacity at its geothermal plants to capitalize on future growth in both carbon credit demand and prices.

China on Friday announced some of its most sweeping measures yet to stabilise the crisis-hit property sector, allowing local governments to buy "some" apartments, relaxing mortgage rules and pledging further efforts to deliver unfinished homes.

Asian stocks inched lower on Friday as traders pondered the near-term US monetary policy path after Federal Reserve officials suggested that interest rates may need to stay higher for longer even as inflation shows early signs of easing.

Fitch Ratings forecasts debt financing expansion to fund Prabowo’s big-ticket plans, which would bring Indonesia’s budget deficit close to the legal limit but could also spur growth through increased economic activity.

The senior investment minister has said the ball is in the court of local telcos to up their game to compete against Starlink on their home ground.

Publicly listed telecommunication companies PT XL Axiata and PT Smartfren Telecom are considering a merger to create a new industry entity called MergeCo, according to a disclosure notice released on Wednesday.

Speaking at the Qatar Economic Forum, Prabowo said criticism of Indonesia's downstreaming policies for coal, palm oil and nickel was misplaced and insisted that all nations maintained at least some trade restrictions.

While governments across the world are looking to adapt legal frameworks to accommodate artificial intelligence, the general manager of IBM Asia Pacific said authorities should regulate the application of AI rather than its technological development.

The state budget next year has been in the spotlight after Prabowo, who is currently the defense minister, announced that he would push forward with his free lunch program for Indonesian schoolchildren, which is estimated to cost Rp 1 trillion per day. 

The revised rule primarily addresses complaints over import regulations for passenger goods and migrant workers, but stipulations on raw and auxiliary materials remain mostly the same.

Asian stock markets rallied on Thursday, buoyed by Wall Street's surge to all-time peaks overnight after a milder US inflation report raised expectations the Federal Reserve will deliver at least two rate cuts this year.

Outgoing shipments of goods dropped in April partly because of fewer working days that month and partly because of lower prices for some export commodities.

A US move to raise tariffs on Chinese goods is a sign of weakness, not of strength, and shows that some in the United States may be "losing their minds", China's foreign minister said on Wednesday, in unusually blunt comments.

According to the homegrown on-demand services and digital payments giant, GoPay could provide a solution for streamlining government subsidies so they reach individual beneficiaries directly.

The measures, which drew strong opposition from Beijing, come as Biden seeks to look tough on trade ahead of a rematch with Republican Donald Trump in November's US presidential election.

SKK Migas expects Mubadala Energy, the UAE-owned operator of the Tangkulo-1 exploration well, to accelerate development of the newly discovered gas deposit to start production in the next four years.

State-owned energy firm Pertamina, US major ExxonMobil and South Korea's KNOC on Wednesday signed a framework agreement for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) hub development in Indonesia.

Asian markets wobbled Wednesday ahead of key US inflation data later in the day, with traders struggling to pick up the baton after a record performance on Wall Street.

Amid Indonesia’s industrialization fervor, Krakakoa founder Sabrina Mustopo recognized untapped potential in processing the country’s natural products, like cacao.

Preliminary data from Bank Indonesia (BI) point to just a slight rise in retail sales last month even as consumer confidence jumped by a respectable margin.

The government is offering five oil and gas blocks for the year’s first bidding round in a fresh effort to achieve its oil and gas production targets.

Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Pandjaitan said that Musk has confirmed his attendance at the ceremony and that he would also speak in one of the seminar sessions at the WWF.

The floating solar power farm on the Jatigede Dam in West Java, will have an electricity output of 100 megawatt (MW) peak.

The government is considering the establishment of a standalone ministry to deal with the housing backlog and financing for developers.