The rupiah's persistent depreciation is a structural consequence of over-reliance on volatile capital inflows to finance a chronic current account deficit, persistent saving–investment imbalances, lasting fiscal deficit and a narrow, commodity-dependent export base. 

President Prabowo Subianto has pledged to address various problems surrounding his administration’s flagship free nutritious meal program, while defending the multibillion-rupiah initiative as essential for students and farmers nationwide amid mounting concerns over its governance.

Housing is shifting inexorably from a milestone to a mirage in Indonesia. With a national backlog of 15 million houses, housing affordability has turned into a crisis spanning income groups, pushing many families to rent rather than buy. The government’s proposed 40-year mortgage scheme might ease monthly payments but raises a harder question: Does extending debt across most of a person’s productive life solve the housing crisis or merely redefine what desperation looks like?

The institutional reflexes that govern Jakarta were not built for a New York index provider that can erode a fifth of Indonesia's sovereign investor mandate overnight. 

With a total of 202 strokes of rattan cane, it was the largest accumulation of strokes in the regency.

Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni pointed to strengthening prevention systems, integrated early warning, stricter law enforcement and community-based approaches at the site level as steps to decease forest fires.

Signs of a flight to safer assets also emerge in the first quarter as rupiah weakness and heightened uncertainty prompt people to diversify wealth and seek protection from depreciation.

Parties with no seats in the House of Representatives also opposed ideas to raise the legislative threshold and proposed instead to abolish or lower the minimum votes needed for a political party to win a seat in the legislature.

Bali Health Agency gave an assurance that no case of suspected hantavirus had yet been found in Bali. However, surveillance and prevention measures have been strengthened after several suspected hantavirus cases were found in other regions in Indonesia.

There was plenty of pomp and pageantry, but when it came to substance, there was little for the rest of the world to cheer about.

President Prabowo Subianto has downplayed the depreciation of the rupiah with statements economists say may send a dangerous signal to the market, potentially dealing a further blow to the currency.

Danang Girindrawardana, executive director of the Indonesian Textile Association (API), said that local business community had also conveyed similar complaints to the government but did not receive an adequate response.

Trump left Beijing on Friday after two days of talks with President Xi Jinping that featured pageantry and warm rhetoric but limited detail on concrete outcomes across trade and investment.

A surge in arrests of suspected foreign scammers in Sri Lanka has authorities concerned that the island is fast becoming a hub for online crime, following sweeping crackdowns in hotspots Cambodia and Myanmar.

The state-owned electricity firm's power generation subsidiary, PLN IP, has signed an agreement with Bangladesh's Bay Group to explore renewable power development in the country, including opportunities to bid on national solar power projects.

The Philippines said it has asked the country's Supreme Court to allow it to arrest ex-president Rodrigo Duterte's chief drug war enforcer to stand trial in an international tribunal.

The World Health Organization on Sunday declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a "public health emergency of international concern", posing risks to neighboring countries.

The mass food poisoning was linked to a beef meal in the day’s menu, pending results of laboratry test results. 

Wall Street is licking its chops over an unprecedented slate of massive IPOs set to arrive in the coming months, beginning with Elon Musk's SpaceX in June.

The scheme, which is said to have provided meals to more than 61 million people by March, was among the first to be cut back as Jakarta seeks to counter the economic impact of the Middle East war.

A looming 18-day strike at South Korean chip giant Samsung that has triggered worries within the government, rattled foreign investors and threatened global supply chains rests on one crucial question: who should share in the spoils of the AI boom? 

The Iranian nationa soccer team's participation in the June 11 to July 19 tournament has been in question since the US and Israel attacked Iran in late February.

Satrio Wiratama, the 170-day-old panda cub, was born in November last year in Taman Safari Indonesia zoo in Cisarua, Bogor regency, West Java, to a pair of pandas loaned by China to Indonesia.

Indonesia's boys and Brazil's girls topped the Shield divisions of the competition, which brought street-connected young people from 28 teams representing more than 20 countries in the tournament   Street-connected young people from 28 teams representing more than 20 countries gathered for the fifth edition of the tournament, which began on May 6 and held its semi-finals and finals in Texcoco, outside Mexico City, on Thursday.

In a landmark trial, a Los Angeles jury on March 25 found Meta and Alphabet's Google negligent for designing social media platforms that are harmful to young people.

The political drama has engulfed the archipelago for months, pitting the ruling Marcos against the camp of Duterte’s daughter and current Vice President Sara Duterte as the ICC pursues accountability for a drug crackdown that killed thousands.

The orders, if finalized, would mark Boeing's first major Chinese deal in nearly a decade, after the US planemaker was largely shut out of the world's second-largest aviation market amid trade tensions between Beijing and Washington.