West Java Communication and Information Agency head Adi Komar said the provincial administration supported investment in the data center but stressed that developers must comply with all applicable regulations, particularly given the project's scale.

The global bank has forecast that Indonesia's GDP growth will be sustained at a pace of 5.4 percent in 2026 before slowing slightly to 5.2 percent next year.

The administration faces increasing scrutiny over risks posed by advanced AI, after OpenAI and Anthropic reported their AI agents had gone rogue and hacked into other companies' systems.

The rupiah has again breached a psychological threshold against the United States dollar as fading hope for a swift settlement of the Iran war pushes up global energy prices and inflation in Indonesia, triggering fresh capital outflows from Indonesia.

Indonesia’s large domestic market could justify to set up a local production, while import restrictions and quotas had further prompted some Thai businesses to consider investing locally rather than exporting directly from Thailand.

Indonesians are not steadily abandoning small treats, nor are they rapidly increasing the share of their food budgets devoted to them, but the products competing for that pool are changing faster.

Spending and revenue ​next year were approved at Rp 4.1 quadrillion and ⁠3.4 quadrillion, respectively, representing increases of about ​4 percent and 7 percent from the latest estimates for this ​year's budget.

BPJS Kesehatan president director Prihati Pujowaskito said the agency had collected Rp 118 trillion in premiums as of September, while it had paid Rp 132 trillion in healthcare benefits, leaving a cash flow deficit of around Rp 14 trillion.

Hopes for an easing of Middle East tensions were dashed at the weekend when Donald Trump rejected Iran's offer for a seven-day truce.

United States air safety regulators are delaying certification of the 737 MAX 10 until determining a fresh software glitch poses no safety risk, a top official said Monday.

Leaders of the Indonesian Sugarcane Farmers Association (APTRI) have complained at the House of Representatives that sugar imports would keep prices depressed and put strain on an industry struggling to gain a footing.  

Several other stocks were affected by the price floor change and hit the lower auto-rejection limit, including tech giant PT GoTo Gojek Tokopedia, property developer PT Lippo Karawaci and PT Repower Asia Indonesia, as well as rice producer PT Buyung Poetra Sembada.  

At a hearing with the House of Representatives on Monday, BI Governor Destry Damayanti said the central bank had reduced its spot market foreign exchange interventions to 30 percent of total interventions because they were too costly.

The Agriculture Ministry has earmarked around Rp 17 trillion to develop an integrated livestock industry across Indonesia, with five initial sites targeted for completion next year as the government seeks to strengthen domestic supplies of chicken, eggs and milk.

Oil prices spiked with bond yields Monday as Donald Trump's rejection of an Iranian offer of a seven-day truce stoked inflation concerns, while stocks were mixed as traders look ahead to the release of key US data.

The rebound came following a recovery in exports via the Strait of Hormuz, which were set to hit about 7.4 million bpd this month.

The Vanda Solar and Battery project in the Riau Islands is expected to be operational by 2029, but only if the Indonesian government issues its long-awaited electricity export regulation this year or by 2027, its developer has said.

From the launch of cross-border QRIS in 2022 through July 2026, users from partner countries made 21 million inbound transactions in Indonesia worth Rp 5.9 trillion ($329.3 million), BI data show.  

The tariff reductions would apply to US exports such as agricultural goods, wood and cosmetics, as well as US imports including small appliances, toys and decorations.

TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million under the settlement, but the state's payout could grow to $300 million if 40 other attorneys general sign on to similar agreements with the company within a specified timeframe, according to the settlement.

Many Indonesians are making do without old-age saving plans as they grapple with unstable incomes and employment.

The cooperation aims to explore critical sectors such as defense and cyber technologies for long-term innovation and national resilience toward potential involvement of SOEs, as Danantara eyes AI infrastructure development.

Following last week's criticism of the government's delay in installing managers at Red and White Cooperatives, the Agrinas chief has asserted that co-op managers are employed at the state-owned agriculture firm.

The head of industry group Airlines for America said on Thursday that US carriers oppose adding more direct flights from China to the United States even as Chinese President Xi Jinping raised the idea.

A planned marketplace for the free nutritious meal program could end up centralizing the program’s supply chain without addressing underlying procurement and governance problems, economists have warned.

The Confederation of All Indonesian Trade Unions (KSBSI) called for labor rules that balance business sustainability with worker protection while adapting to changes in the workforce.

Lawmakers have green-lit a plan to import used trains from Japan, which has a compatible railway system, as KAI projects the shortfall in trains to peak at 45 in 2029 amid growing demand from Commuter Line passengers.