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BI launches domestic credit card for public retail use

Statustics Indonesia (BPS) chief statistician Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti (left) stands next to MoSPI secretary Saurabh Garg (middle) on Aug. 4 after signing a Letter of Intent (LoI) on the sidelines of the BRICS Meeting of Heads of National Statistical Offices in Lucknow, India.

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RI, India to share AI, digital platforms for official statistics

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Pluang announces Indonesia’s first agentic trading platform

Agentic trading is a technology for investing through an artificial intelligence assistant that can analyze, research and execute buy/sell actions in an active account, where every transaction requires final user confirmation.

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A technician from the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) inspects a reactor pool in the G.A. Siwabessy multipurpose reactor on July 15, 2024, at the B.J. Habibie Science and Technology Area in Serpong, South Tangerang, Banten.

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BRIN pitches advancing nuclear, AI in meeting with Prabowo

A message reading “AI artificial intelligence,“ a keyboard and robot hands are seen in this illustration created on Jan. 27, 2025.

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‘Vibe Coding’: How Asia’s finance teams are rewriting rules

AI coding agents allow finance teams to build solutions without needing an engineering background, as they only need to define the logic and desired outputs, while the AI writes the code, tests it and connects it to relevant data sources.

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A tower owned by PT Dayamitra Telekomunikasi (Mitratel) is pictured in an undated photograph in Langsa, Aceh.

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Court ruling on telco data retention unlikely to impact business models

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Google rolls back new satellite image AI tool after backlash

The "create image" tool, unveiled Thursday, had integrated Google's Nano Banana 2 image-generation technology into Google Earth, letting users zoom into locations and build pictures in seconds based on the program's satellite, aerial and 3D-mapping data.

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President's muted Nusantara support chills investment

A maintenance staff member inspects solar panels on Dec. 5, 2024, on the roof of the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta.

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Indonesia to kick off 30 GW tender in 100 GW solar power push

South Korean container ship will test Arctic route to Europe amid Western concern

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Nusantara Capital Authority (OIKN) head Basuki Hadimuljono leads the Sacred Reflection Night ceremony ahead of Indonesia’s 81st Independence Day at Kusuma Bangsa Park in Nusantara, East Kalimantan, on Aug. 16, 2026.

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IKN earmarks Rp 5.3t for work on legislative, judicial buildings in 2027

A truck passes over the Peace Bridge between Canada and the United States, in Fort Erie, Ontario, on Aug. 18, 2026.

Trump pauses 50% tariffs on Canadian goods for three days

US President Donald Trump paused the planned rollout of new tariffs on Canadian goods late Tuesday, after negotiations between both countries that went down to the wire.

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Global bond markets put governments on notice over fiscal, inflation risks

US, Japanese, German and French borrowing costs are at their highest levels in years or decades as debt levels in developed countries look increasingly unsustainable.

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Against all odds: A scholar's story that inspired many

From displacement to success, Maluku-born Richard Waery details how education and a scholarship opportunity opened numerous doors for him. His is a story of resilience and proof that one opportunity can change the course of a lifetime.

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Sekolah Sawit Lestari nurtures future generations, one tree at a time

Students gain practical knowledge and valuable experience as schools implement oil palm education into their curriculum

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State-owned explosive firm launches electronic detonator, restarts booster plant

President Prabowo Subianto gestures as he delivers his annual State of the Nation address before lawmakers, while Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka sits next to him in Jakarta on Aug. 14, 2026.

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Govt to centralize public procurement

Former workers of textile company Sritex hold a banner on Jan. 12, 2026, during a protest in front of the Semarang District Court in Central Java.

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Former Sritex workers pin hopes on Danantara takeover

A woman stands on a sunken German warship from World War II, exposed due to low Danube river levels caused by drought and extreme heat near Prahovo, Serbia, on Aug. 13. 2026.

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Europe's heatwaves expose insurance gap as business losses mount

Moody's has published estimates that last summer's European heatwaves cost 43 billion euros (US$50 billion) in lost economic output while generating only about 500 million euros of insured payouts.

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PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk, commonly known as Telkom Indonesia, is a multinational Indonesian telecommunications conglomerate.

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Telkom’s financial statement under scrutiny amid fraud claims

This handout photo taken and released on March 17, 2025, by the Presidential Palace shows an aerial view of the smelter facility operated by PT Freeport Indonesia.

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Freeport’s Gresik smelter halts operations for furnace repairs

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EV motorcycle subsidy to return in September: Purbaya

Financial Services Authority (OJK) Chief Friderica Widyasari Dewi (left), Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa (second left), interim Bank Indonesia (BI) governor Destry Damayanti (second right) and Indonesian Deposit Insurance Corporation (LPS) chairman Anggto Abimanyu pose for a photo in a press conference following the conclusion of the Financial System Stability Committee (KSSK) meeting on Aug. 3 in Jakarta.

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Leading first BI meeting, Destry stresses growth, vigilance

Three 'ojol' (online motorcycle transportation) drivers for different companies, Gojek, Grab and Shopee, wait for the green light at a crossroads in Jakarta on Feb. 10, 2022.

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Govt to set rates for on-demand food, courier delivery fees

Indonesian Military (TNI) chief of general staff Lt. Gen. Richard Taruli H. Tampubolon (second right) holds a sack of mineral black sand while the Republic of Indonesia Fleet Command (Koarmada RI) Vice Adm. Denih Hendrata (second left) looks on at the Indonesian Navy’s Naval Command (Kodaeral) IV/Batam headquarters’ pier in Batam, Riau Islands, on May 26, 2026. The Indonesian Navy intercepted on May 17, 2026, a tugboat and a barge carrying 25 containers of some 390 tonnes of raw minerals containing illegal rare earth metals and radioactive elements in Riau Islands waters.

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Indonesia’s rare earth push faces low-content, costly extraction hurdles

A woman walks past the Wisma Danantara Indonesia building on Aug. 11, 2026, on Jl. Jend. Gatot Subroto in South Jakarta.

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Govt to reroute Danantara dividends back to state budget

Workers sort packages ready for shipment at the warehouse of e-commerce giant Shopee in Cengkareng, West Jakarta, on Aug. 30, 2023.

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Retailers decry ‘unfair’ tax advantage for e-commerce

Attendants of a gas station owned by state-owned energy holding company Pertamina serves customers on Feb. 27, 2025, in Semarang, Central Java (Antara/Aprillio Akbar).

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Indonesia weighs subsidized fuel curbs for luxury cars

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RI’s mineral exchange plan faces positioning, governance tests

An electronic board displays stock prices at the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) on Jan. 29 in Jakarta.

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IDX outperforms Asian markets on domestic optimism

Bond yields jump, oil extends gains as US-Iran ceasefire expires

Bond yields climbed on Tuesday to their highest in decades, with oil prices rising for a third day, while stocks gave up early gains in Asian trade as a US-Iran truce expired and Tehran threatened to adopt a "fully offensive" military posture.

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Iran defiant on strait as Trump tells Americans to accept high gas prices

Iran called on the United States to accept defeat while President Donald Trump blasted Tehran as "very evil" and told Americans to brace for continued high fuel prices as a result of the war.

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A currency dealer works as an electronic board displays the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), the exchange rate between the US dollar and South Korean won and the Korea Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (KOSDAQ) at the dealing room of a bank in Seoul on July 14, 2026.

Asian stocks set for weekly gain on fading US rate hike wagers

Asian stocks rose on Friday, poised for their strongest week in two months as benign inflation data dented expectations of an imminent US rate hike, although faltering talks to end the war in the Middle East are likely to keep risk sentiment in check.

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An electronic display board inside the main hall of the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) in South Jakarta shows an overall downward movement across most stocks during the lunch break on Jan. 29, when the IDX Composite index fell 6.3 percent after global investment firm MSCI raised concerns about free float and trading transparency.

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MSCI drops battered GoTo from stock indexes