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Economy premium

Indonesia to maintain 5% growth to 2027 on policy support: OECD outlook

The OECD assessment sees Indonesia’s inflation declining to 1.9 percent this year, and then picking up to 3.1 percent and 3.2 percent in successive years.

42 minutes ago
Economy premium

German, US chip investors urge faster permits for Batam facilities

Quantum Luminous Indonesia president director Walter Grieves said the plan was to commence the semiconductor project at the start of 2026. ...

1 hour ago
Asia & Pacific premium

Twenty-two Indonesians remain missing in Hong Kong fire

Twenty-two Indonesian nationals remain unaccounted for following the massive fire that tore through the Wang Fuk Court housing complex in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district, the Foreign Ministry confirmed on Tuesday, as authorities race to identify victims amid widespread devastation. ...

1 hour ago

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Tech premium

Huawei Cloud to expand data centers in Indonesia next year

Huawei Cloud Indonesia CEO Leon Fang said that the utilization rate of the current three Availability Zones in Jakarta has reached 90.99 percent.

2 hours ago
Regulations premium

Indonesia won’t phase out fossil fuels, Hashim asserts

President Prabowo Subianto’s brother and business tycoon Hashim Djojohadikusumo, who is also the President’s special envoy for energy and climate, says the government “is sticking to a different approach” amid mounting international pressure to curb fossil fuel use.

3 hours ago
Society

Frustration in flood-stricken Sumatra as survivors await aid

In affected regions, there is growing frustration among survivors of catastrophic flooding and landslides over the pace of the rescue effort and aid delivery.

4 hours ago
Asia & Pacific

Malaysia to resume search for long-missing flight MH370

The Boeing 777 carrying 239 people vanished from radar screens on March 8, 2014, while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in one of aviation's greatest enduring mysteries.

4 hours ago
Academia

Outrage alone won’t save the Philippines

Democracies move slowly; but when paired with civic education, vigilance and public participation, their institutions stand a better chance of surviving and renewing themselves.

5 hours ago
Academia premium

ASEAN inaction on cybercrime poses a risk to regional security

If left unaddressed, these criminal networks will not only destabilize individual member states but also threaten the credibility, security and economic future of the ASEAN as a whole.

6 hours ago
Tech

OpenAI declares ChatGPT 'code red' over stiff competition

In a memo to staff on Monday, Altman told employees that the company was "at a critical time for ChatGPT," and that resources must be devoted to fending off the new competition to its chatbot, the reports said.

6 hours ago
Academia premium

Funding gap looms, will progress against AIDS, TB, malaria suffer?

However, with global funding pledges falling short of the target required to sustain health programming, how can countries, including Indonesia, win their goal to end AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as global health threats?

7 hours ago
Society premium

How deforestation turbocharged Sumatra's deadly floods

Environmentalists, experts and even the government have pointed to the role forest loss played in flash flooding and landslides that washed torrents of mud into villages and stranded residents on roofs.

7 hours ago
Archipelago premium

BGN redirects free meal kitchens to feed Sumatra flood victims

The three provinces have suffered severe devastation after a rare tropical storm formed in the Malacca Strait and unleashed a week of torrential rain and powerful winds, triggering widespread floods and landslides.

7 hours ago
Archipelago

Death toll from Sumatra floods and landslides passes 700

The agency in a press conference late on Tuesday said 708 people had been killed since last week, a figure lower than the 753 reported on its website earlier in the day. It did not give a reason for the discrepancy. 

7 hours ago
Academia premium

The triple-return ocean economy

Advancing regenerative ocean solutions provides a hedge against systemic instability by protecting one of Earth’s most powerful stabilizing forces.

8 hours ago
Archipelago premium

Critically endangered Sumatran elephant found dead in flood-hit Aceh

The discovery was the latest in a string of elephant deaths in recent months that has heightened concern over the endangered species’ survival.

8 hours ago
Academia premium

The early warning that Sumatra never received

In the event of disasters, what protects people is not a perfect environment, but a reliable flow of information and a clear structure of action.

9 hours ago
Politics premium

Rights violations continue unabated in Papua: Komnas HAM

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has logged at least 60 alleged human rights violations in Papua this year, from deadly lapses in basic health care to land grabs and attacks on civilians, a pattern the agency says highlights Jakarta’s failing approach to the restive region.

9 hours ago
Politics premium

Decade-old satellite corruption case enters new phase

A decade-old case of alleged corruption in the procurement of a satellite at the Defense Ministry entered a new phase on Monday, as investigators concluded their probe into a retired Navy officer and two other suspects in the case.

9 hours ago
Academia premium

Sumatra floods: A test of national coordination, not just status

Indonesia has real-time disaster maps using crowdsourced reports and a national portal for disaster risk reduction, but they lack integration

10 hours ago
Opinion premium

Analysis: Garuda–Pelita merger plan advances amid financial, political headwinds

The plan to merge national flag carrier PT Garuda Indonesia with PT Pelita Air Service, a subsidiary of energy holding state-owned enterprise (SOE) PT Pertamina, has reached a new stage. State asset fund Danantara has brought Garuda and Pertamina together to assess share structures and other corporate aspects. The move aligns with broader efforts to streamline SOEs. However, critics argue that the merger primarily serves as an effort to rescue the financially distressed Garuda.

10 hours ago
Jakarta premium

Graves over homes: Jakarta’s cemetery crisis pushes out poor residents

To deal with the shortage of burial plots for the dead, Jakarta is planning to revitalize and expand several public cemeteries across the city at the expense of poor residents who have lived among the graves on city-owned land for decades.

10 hours ago
Archipelago premium

Northern Sumatra leaders raise white flag amid deadly floods

With at least 712 dead and hundreds more missing from floods and landslides across northern Sumatra, regional leaders have admitted that they cannot handle the crisis alone, underscoring deep budgetary and logistical gaps in disaster response.

10 hours ago
Academia premium

Citizenship without certainty

The Global Citizenship is commendable initiative but it lacks legal certainty, professional security and a genuine sense of belonging that can convince Indonesian diaspora to return home.

11 hours ago
Companies

The second AI Alliance Network Meeting highlights major wins, signals broader expansion

AI Journey 2025, held in Moscow on Nov. 21, marked a momentous occasion as the international conference took the opportunity to welcome new members into the AI Alliance Network.

11 hours ago
Politics premium

KPK questions former governor Ridwan Kamil in Bank BJB graft case

Investigators of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) previously raided the former West Java governor’s house in Bandung in March and confiscated a Mercedes-Benz that was once owned by former president Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie.

19 hours ago
Regulations premium

Luhut rebuffs China-bias claims amid Morowali airport brouhaha

The former senior minister urged the public to stay united and view strategic policies, including mineral downstreaming, from a wider perspective.

20 hours ago
Europe

US envoy Witkoff and Kushner arrive in Moscow to meet Putin

Trump has said he wants to end Europe's deadliest conflict since World War Two but his efforts so far, including a summit with Putin in Alaska in August and meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, have not yet brought peace.

20 hours ago
Tech

Apple to resist India order to preload state-run app as political outcry builds

Apple does not plan to comply with a mandate to preload its smartphones with a state-owned cyber safety app and will convey its concerns to New Delhi, three sources familiar with the matter said, after the government's move sparked surveillance concerns.

22 hours ago
Economy premium

Keeping MSMEs afloat next year

The macroeconomic dominance of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) is not reflected in their financial health or in the banking credit market.

1 day ago

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