Fulfilling the ILO’s promise of defending workers’ rights will require more than another declaration or incremental institutional reform: There must be a concerted global effort to create an enabling environment for all workers and their organizations to operate across borders as easily as capital does.

Political stability at the elite level has not yet translated into improvements in the economy, public services and the quality of governance. 

Foreign Minister Arrmanatha Nasir and his Australian counterpart Penny Wong discussed regional resilience and multilateralism on Thursday, as Jakarta and Canberra sought to deepen their strategic partnership amid growing global uncertainty.

Indonesia cannot restore foreign investor confidence with emergency price supports or rhetoric. It must prove the integrity of its markets through independent verification of ownership and true liquidity.

State asset fund Danantara plans to take several state-owned enterprises (SOEs) public in 2027, but whether the listings will attract investor interest remains uncertain. The companies have yet to be identified, and Danantara has pledged to conduct rigorous reviews before determining which are ready to enter the stock market. The key question, however, is whether the selected companies can offer sustainable returns and adequate investor protection, or whether the IPOs will serve primarily as a fundraising measure, leaving investors exposed to losses rather than potential capital gains, as previous cases suggest.

Judges did not order the revocation of Sudewo's political rights for five years after he completed the prison term as demanded by the prosecution.

The Weekender Living Room returned for its second edition, bringing readers an opportunity to glimpse into one of the most popular topics in the Weekender.

The tiger was captured after two people were killed in July in an area bordering the tiger’s natural habitat in Semenanjung Kampar.

At COPA in 25hours Hotel Jakarta The Oddbird, October brings Fire & Wagyu, a month-long special that brings rich marbling, bold flavors and COPA’s Latin American spirit to the grill, featuring Tajima Australian Grainfed Wagyu over wood and charcoal.

The transboundary haze crisis from Indonesia's uncontrolled wildfires has triggered a fresh public spat between Indonesian officials and politicians and their counterparts from Malaysia and Singapore over responsibility for the blazes and the role of foreign corporate interests.

Jakarta’s historic market rout isn’t the work of foreign conspirators, but a self-inflicted wound born of concentrated ownership and regulatory inertia that political defiance cannot heal.

Most Indonesians trapped in online scam syndicates abroad are victims of human trafficking who were lured by promises of high wages before being exploited.

The country’s installed capacity stands at about 468 megawatts, with more than 1.5 gigawatts under construction and another 4.6 GW in the pipeline.

Indonesian netizens have been reporting of having their content about widespread forest and peatland fires on several social media platforms getting shadow banned or taken down in the past week.

It posted a negative return of 0.5 percent in the quarter, dragged down by a negative return of 3.5 percent in its fixed-income investments, while its equity and property portfolios increased by 0.5 percent and 0.4 percent respectively.

PHP helps run about 70 percent of the world's websites -- from online stores and news outlets to government services -- according to Wiz Research, one of the cybersecurity firms that found the two flaws.

Indonesia has announced "administrative sanctions" against dozens of firms and criminal proceedings against 125 individuals and corporations. But previously prosecuted firms have gotten away with not paying fines or carrying out forest restoration. 

The government is considering halting natural gas exports to neighboring countries as Coordinating Downstreaming and Energy Transition Minister Bahlil Lahadalia says Indonesia must prioritize domestic needs as it enters what he described as “survival mode.”

A Fitch statement released on Wednesday forecast Indonesia's GDP growth would likely hover around 4.9 percent in 2027 and 2028, nowhere near the President’s ambitious 8 percent target despite an upward revision from an initial projection of 4.7 percent.

The bust came a week after Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Sakti Wahyu Trenggono formally enacted a permanent ban on exporting the marine resource, backed by Presidential Regulation No. 69/2026, which established a national task force to dismantle smuggling networks.

Behind the veneer of administrative procedure, Indonesia’s legal system continues to sacrifice ancestral lands to state-backed megaprojects, reducing constitutional rights for Indigenous peoples to little more than a paper tiger.

Arrmanatha inherits an institutional legacy, but his real test is whether he can restore the ministry’s authority in shaping Indonesian foreign policy.

As electric cars reshape the driving experience, enthusiasts wrestle with what makes a car special: the roar of its engine, the quirks of an aging machine, or the memories we leave behind the wheel.

Even as Asian crude imports head toward recovery, soaring logistics costs due to the Middle East war are cutting into refiners' margins, prompting them to seek solutions that would put pressure back on Gulf producers.

Government websites in Europe and elsewhere went offline on Wednesday after the disclosure of critical vulnerabilities in a widely used programming language sent website operators around the world scrambling to protect their systems.

As the post-war order fractures into a volatile new world disorder, Malaysia must abandon diplomatic complacency and master the art of strategic autonomy—or risk becoming collateral damage in the next great-power shock.

The environmental activists underwent medical examinations and waited for 10 hours before being released by the police on Tuesday night, with the Jakarta Police confirming the protesters were not named suspects and would not face further questioning.