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Companies

IEE Series – Energy Week reflects growing ecosystem seeking connections

With Indonesia expanding its power and digital infrastructure, IEE Series – Energy Week 2026 is emerging as a meeting point for industries seeking technology, partnerships, and solutions to support the next phase of industrial transformation.

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Asia & Pacific

Sarawak declares emergency in Serian district due to haze

Sarawak, in Kalimantan, has been heavily affected by fires on the Indonesian side of the island, with haze forcing school closures in some parts of the state.    ...

12 minutes ago
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Villagers ignore warning, still working in Sinabung’s danger zones

Residents said they are used to Mount Sinabung's eruptions and that Monday's eruption was not as big as the previous ones, hence their reluctance to evacuate. ...

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Riau Islands guarantees investment despite large-scale drug smuggling

Riau Islands’ geographical conditions bordering neighboring countries have their own security challenges in the face of transnational crimes.

39 minutes ago
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Why do Dayak recruits get a special military pathway?

Dayak communities' familiarity with forested terrain and local social dynamics could add operational value to the TNI, particularly in disaster preparedness and strengthening the military's presence in remote areas.

40 minutes ago
Economy premium

Indonesia, Russia ink fertilizer investment deal

Investment and Downstreaming Minister Rosan Roeslani confirmed that state-owned PT Pupuk Indonesia is exploring a significant investment in a urea fertilizer plant in Vladivostok.

1 hour ago
Markets premium

J.P. Morgan sees IDX at 7,000 this year, flags hurdles to 6% GDP growth

Corporate earnings growth next year is projected to reach 9 percent, driven by government spending and investment.  

3 hours ago
Academia

The river does not forget

Nature remains unpredictable and largely indifferent to human attempts to intervene in its course.

3 hours ago
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Breaking into, navigating ASEAN’s consumer market

Winning in ASEAN takes more than deep pockets and borrowed playbooks—it demands the rare operational discipline to dismantle corporate dogma and adapt faster than the market.

4 hours ago
Academia premium

Industrial estates need a new measure of success

Indonesia must stop selling cheap land and labor—and start building high-performing, sustainable industrial ecosystems that modern global investors actually want.

5 hours ago
Markets

Asian stocks rally as traders pare rate bets ahead of jobs data

Stocks rose Friday and government yields held their losses after comments from top Federal Reserve officials tempered fears that the central bank would hike interest rates at its meeting this month.

5 hours ago
Environment premium

Sunken graves: In Indramayu, even death has lost its space

Tidal flooding has swallowed homes, livelihoods and parts of Eretan Wetan’s cemetery, leaving residents struggling to live, and die, with dignity.

6 hours ago
Asia & Pacific premium

Indonesia backs India’s BRICS leadership

Jakarta pushes cooperation, governance reform and tech as a public good.

6 hours ago
Academia premium

American Götterdämmerung

The Trump administration’s mounting blunders are hastening the transition to a post-American world order.

6 hours ago
Academia premium

Malaysia must not breathe Indonesia’s governance failure

Southeast Asia's skies aren't choking simply on bad weather; they’re choking on decades of Jakarta’s governance failure.

7 hours ago
Regulations premium

Purbaya reasserts budget for cooperatives debt

The government had reserved some Rp 40 trillion (US$2.26 billion) this year to pay the first round of installments due on Sept. 25, totaling Rp 37.7 trillion.

8 hours ago
Society premium

Civil groups seek better recognition for indigenous peoples in new bill

Civil society groups have presented their own draft bill on indigenous peoples to the House of Representatives, seeking legislation that would provide legal standing for the underserved and dispossessed.

8 hours ago
Tech premium

Indonesia’s data center push gains ground, but faces execution test

Industry players warned that the government still needs to address existing challenges, including bottlenecks in equipment imports and delays in infrastructure construction.

20 hours ago
Academia premium

Rowing between two reefs: Why Indonesia won't pick a side

Drilling with the Pentagon in the west while exercising with Beijing in the east isn’t Indonesia playing a double game, it’s a masterclass in surviving between two superpowers without answering to either.

8 hours ago
Opinion premium

Analysis: Indonesia’s solar energy bet: Cautious optimism

President Prabowo Subianto recently launched the country’s massive solar power program at a ceremony in Bali, marking the construction of 14 solar power plants across the country. The projects form part of Indonesia’s push to develop 100 gigawatt-peak (GWp) of solar power capacity, aimed at providing reliable electricity to isolated villages, accelerating the transition to clean and renewable energy and strengthening energy independence.

8 hours ago
Europe premium

Prabowo pitches Eurasia-Southeast Asia economic bridge

President Prabowo Subianto has pitched a shared economic future between Jakarta and Moscow, expressing hopes to host his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Indonesia while touting his administration’s “realist, pragmatist” approach to international cooperation.

9 hours ago
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Jakarta transit grows, but Greater Jakarta stays disconnected

Jakarta’s public transportation system is seeing rising ridership across major modes this year, signaling growing demand for reliable mass transit, but experts say its potential remains largely untapped without better connections to the thousands of housing developments across Greater Jakarta.

9 hours ago
Society premium

Unchecked businesses blamed for raging wildfires

Lands within business concessions of a size roughly equivalent to the total area of Jakarta have been burned since January, with most fire coming from areas earmarked for oil palm plantations, according to a recent analysis from an environmental group.

9 hours ago
Editorial premium

The state's new muscle

When the state embraces street thugs as political muscle, the violence that follows isn't an accident - it is government policy.

9 hours ago
Politics premium

More than 1,700 students and teachers sickened this week due to free meals

In separate incidents in three other locations this week, 950 individuals had fallen ill as a result of food poisoning linked to the programme, a member of a House commission overseeing health said. 

21 hours ago
Asia & Pacific

Malaysia starts cloud seeding to help clear toxic haze

The operation, which also aims to bolster water reserves in anticipation of dry weather, targets three hydroelectric dams and 13 water catchment areas, Sarawak's Disaster Management Committee said.

22 hours ago
Markets

Indonesia's global commodities price-setting ambition risks backfiring

The exchange, scheduled for launch next year, is President Prabowo Subianto's latest initiative to expand state influence over natural resources in a country that is the biggest global supplier of palm oil, nickel and thermal coal and a major source of copper and bauxite.

23 hours ago
Economy premium

New BI governor puts stability as top agenda

Destry was inaugurated on Sept. 2, alongside newly appointed senior deputy governor Aida S. Budiman and deputy governor Solikin M. Juhro, with all three appointed for five-year terms.

1 day ago
Environment

El Nino to be 'very strong', last until February, UN warns

The World Meteorological Organization said El Nino would peak towards the end of this year -- though its knock-on impacts for the climate will continue well into 2027.

1 day ago
Archipelago premium

Authorities intercept 800 kg of ketamine in Anambas waters

Customs' patrol vessel BC 30005 halted the MV Fuchangxing 1 on Aug. 22 based on joint intelligence analysis and interagency targeting, which had flagged the cargo ship as exhibiting high-risk operational patterns at sea.

1 day ago

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