The rupiah’s depreciation has raised the costs for Indonesia’s National Strategic Projects, with contractors warning of squeezed margins, cash flow strain and potential construction delays for import-heavy infrastructure works.

The scheme is set to begin on June 1, with the designated SOE exporters taking charge of the clearance process, while local exporters will still handle pre-clearance and post-clearance activities such as preparing sales documents and processing payments.

President Xi Jinping hailed China and Russia's "unyielding" ties in talks with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, as the pair met to underscore their alliance days after Donald Trump's visit to the Asian superpower economy.

"China is back" is a common refrain among investors. However, stock-picking in China remains as hard as ever.

Indonesia keeps building shiny technoparks to celebrate innovation, but until its institutions actually reward risk and accept failure, it is merely building the container while ignoring the broken system inside.

Wayan Sudira, an entrepreneur from Bali and a customer of PT Permodalan Nasional Madani (PNM) through its ULaMM (Micro Capital Service Unit) program, transforms what was once considered beach waste into export-quality handicrafts.

In a speech outlining the Macroeconomic Framework and Fiscal Policy Points (KEM-PPKF), Prabowo told the House of Representatives on Wednesday that the deficit for 2027 was set at 1.8 to 2.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), below the legal cap of 3 percent.

In a letter earlier ​this month to President Prabowo Subianto, copied to ​China’s ⁠embassy and seen by Reuters, the China Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia said ⁠Chinese ​firms faced "excessively stringent regulation, ​over-enforcement", and alleged corruption and extortion by authorities.

The Netherlands and Indonesia can exchange knowledge on operations in the sea, straits and exclusive economic zones, says Royal Netherlands Navy commander Vice Adm. Harold Liebergs.

Indonesia’s workplace safety system is highly certified on paper, but a skyrocketing accident rate reveals a tragic reality: we are regulating compliance while completely failing to control real-time risks.

Although Nurinda has finally been able to return, years of abandonment have devastated the farm. Nearly 90 percent of her coffee crops are gone, wiping out the harvest her family once depended on for income.

EU lawmakers and member states reached a deal in the early hours of Wednesday to implement the bloc's nearly year-old trade pact with the United States, with President Donald Trump threatening new tariffs unless it is done by July 4.

The Iran war has revealed how deeply material interests are embedded in strategic calculations, concentrating rewards among powerful insiders while leaving society to absorb the costs. As long as chaos remains politically and economically rewarding, such conflicts will remain difficult to contain.

Trump told reporters at the White House that he had been just "an hour away" from relaunching Washington's attacks on Iran before postponing the order, after weeks of a fragile ceasefire and talks to end the war, which began on February 28.

The Police Reform Acceleration Committee’s 3,000-page report exposes deep systemic ailments within the National Police, yet by keeping the force directly under presidential control, it risks preserving the political status quo under the guise of reform.

Rather than attempt to downplay the rupiah's slide through well-meaning but ultimately misleading political statements that inevitably dismiss the plight of rural communities, realpolitik based on honesty backed by data is the best policy approach.

There is renewed hope for police reform following President Prabowo Subianto’s approval of the police reform committee’s recommendations. Although several points merely preserve the status quo, the recommendations also call for more substantive action, particularly a revision of the 2002 National Police Law.

Indonesia and nine other countries have condemned Israel’s interception of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla as a “blatant” breach of international law, while demanding the immediate release of activists detained during the humanitarian mission, including five Indonesians.

Earlier in the year, BPBDs across Riau were fighting forest fires because of a forecasted long dry season but high rainfall in the past few days has swept most of forest and land fires and caused flooding, instead.

Coordinated disinformation campaigns targeting government critics have proliferated in Indonesia under the leadership of President Prabowo Subianto, contributing to the silencing of dissent and intimidation against activists, journalists and the wider public, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.

As its population graying at an unprecedented rate, Indonesia must pivot from viewing its elderly as a cultural burden to designing proactive policies that transform them into a national asset.

Analysts say a decision by state asset fund Danantara not to make its financial reports public will hurt investor confidence.

Prosecutors from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) have demanded a five-year prison sentence for former deputy manpower minister Immanuel “Noel” Ebenezer over extortion schemes tied to workplace safety certifications at the ministry.

The police are investigating the shooting incident, caused by two teenage gunmen opening fire at the mosque and which led to the killing of a security guard and two other men, as a hate crime.

The benchmark index was down 1.85 percent on Monday and plunged again by more than 3 percent in the morning trading session on Tuesday.

The President is expected to outline the broader stabilization strategy before lawmakers in the coming days, according to the finance minister.

Beyond negative sentiment related to warning from global index compiler MSCI, global investors have also become more sensitive to concerns surrounding Indonesia’s fiscal resilience, particularly amid rising global energy prices.