In 2024, Indonesia experienced a slowdown in inflation, reaching a record low of 1.57 percent. While this indicates price stability, it also signals the need for greater stimulus to sustain economic growth.

Many households are now exploring destinations closer to home to reduce expenditures.

China's manufacturing activity shrank in April after growing at its highest rate in a year the previous month, official data showed Wednesday, as Beijing fights an intensifying trade war with the United States.

"The goal here is to bring back the high quality industrial jobs to the US. President (Donald) Trump is interested in the jobs of the future, not the jobs of the past," Bessent told reporters at a White House briefing.

During the closed-door meeting, the President called on SOEs executives to end inefficiency and misconduct, ordered Danantara’s board to evaluate their performance and warned that directors who fail to deliver would be replaced.

Indonesia has seen respectable growth in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first quarter of 2025 as realized funding reached a quarter of the government’s full-year target, while domestic investment grew even faster.

Tax incentives can be categorized into four types, namely exemption from tax imposition, reduction of tax base, reduction of tax rate and tax deferral. In essence, a tax incentive policy is the government's effort to ensure that the economy continues to run and grow, as well as encouraging taxpayers to remain compliant both formally and materially.

OJK encourages insurance firms to continue strengthening their risk management, diversifying both their investment portfolios and products to cushion against global economic volatility.

The petrochemical company offered Indonesia the opportunity to participate and President Prabowo Subianto agreed to local participation through Danantara, which the wealth fund will explore. 

President Donald Trump's administration will move to reduce the impact of his automotive tariffs on Tuesday by alleviating some duties imposed on foreign parts in domestically manufactured cars and keeping tariffs on cars made abroad from piling on top of other ones, officials said.

Experts warn that the success of these efforts will depend on Indonesia’s ability to reform its regulations, strengthen governance and provide greater legal certainty.

The first phase of the project will produce 120,000 tonnes of melamine, 150,000 tonnes of nitric acid and 200,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate per year

A company rooted in Indonesia is slated to invest US$2 billion in a blue ammonia project in the United States as part of what President Prabowo Subianto called a “win-win solution” in the ongoing tariff negotiations.

The Manpower Ministry plans to clamp down on the all-too common practice of employers holding onto the graduation certificates of employees, even ex-employees, effectively keeping them hostage against quitting.

Ishiba's first trip to Vietnam, and his subsequent visit on Tuesday to the Philippines, mark the latest high-level East Asian meetings amid escalating global uncertainty triggered by the threat of crippling US tariffs.

Global finance leaders came to Washington this past week seeking clarity on what it would take to get some relief from President Donald Trump's multi-layered tariff assault and on just how much pain it will bring to the world economy.

Gan Kim Yong, who is also the trade minister and helms the Singapore Economic Resilience Taskforce, told reporters Sunday that pharmaceuticals make up more than 10 percent of the city state's exports to the United States, according to the Straits Times.

Beijing further tightens its grip on the Indonesian EV market with its LFP tech domination, causing a decline in the market for nickel-based technology which contributed to LG’s decision to exit.  

As the trade war between the United States and China escalates, here is a point-by-point comparison of the world's two biggest economic powers.

Elon Musk's xAI Holdings is in talks with investors to raise roughly US$20 billion in funding for his newly combined artificial intelligence start-up and social media business, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

US President Donald Trump asserted in an interview published on Friday that tariff negotiations were under way with China, but Beijing denied any talks were taking place, the latest in a series of conflicting signals over what progress was being made to de-escalate a trade war threatening to sap global growth.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank spring meetings this week in Washington have been dominated by worries about the economic fallout from century-high US tariffs, and retaliatory ones announced by China, the European Union, Canada and others.

Mangga Dua market has been thrust into spotlight yet again as a barrier to trade in the USTR's 2025 National Trade Estimate Report, which has singled out the North Jakarta market as a bustling hub of counterfeit goods.

The government says the US has expressed appreciation for Indonesia’s position on bilateral trade and lauded Jakarta’s decision to get into negotiations early, as a high-ranking delegation wraps up talks in Washington, DC.

Indonesia’s push to become an EV hub faces new challenges, as relaxed import rules have seen the domestic market flooded with foreign-made cars, causing sharp declines in output from local manufacturers.

While the transport minister has urged local airliners to look at buying rejected Boeing jets as an opportunity for fleet expansion, industry association INACA has called for a collected, practical stance in view of regulatory, certification and other established processes.

Coordinating Economic Affairs Minister Airlangga Hartarto, the head of delegation, and Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati have been in the United States since last week negotiating the proposed 32 percent tariffs the US wants to impose on Indonesia. These tariffs have been put on hold for 90 days.