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Regulations 1 week ago

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Trade deal with US ‘still on’ despite reported rift

News reports suggest that talks aimed at reaching a final bilateral trade agreement were in dan...

Economy 1 week ago

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Retail sales, confidence surge as holidays approach

According to preliminary data from Bank Indonesia (BI) published on Wednesday, the retail sales inde...

Asia & Pacific 1 week ago

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Prabowo bestowed with highest Pakistani honor in Islamabad

President Prabowo Subianto became the second Indonesian to receive Pakistan's highest civil...

Archipelago 1 week ago

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Govt suspends four firms suspected of contributing to deadly North Sumatra flooding

The government assessed that there were relations between activities of the three companies with nat...

Jakarta 1 week ago

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Kemayoran blaze kills 22, renews citywide fire safety concerns

According to preliminary police information, the fire is suspected to have been triggered by a drone...

Society 1 week ago

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Floods, extreme weather, drive up grocery prices in various regions

Supply disruptions of various types of chilies and vegetables have increased the prices in Bata...

Companies 1 week ago

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Italian energy firm Eni reveals a major gas discovery off East Kalimantan

Estimates indicate 600 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of gas initially in place, with a potential of beyon...

Europe 1 week ago

Suspense swirls if Nobel peace laureate will attend ceremony

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who lives in hiding, is due to receive her Nobel ...

Asia & Pacific 1 week ago

Trump says to make phone call to stop Thai-Cambodia fighting

Thailand's foreign minister said in an interview on Tuesday that he saw no potential for negotia...

Asia & Pacific 1 week ago

Cambodia pull out of SEA Games in Thailand: Organizers

Cambodia withdrew on Wednesday from the Southeast Asian Games, a Games official said, as a border co...

Academia 1 week ago

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Why the US will never abandon Taiwan

Abandoning Taiwan would undermine US interests, alienate allies, embolden China and unravel the Indo...

Markets 1 week ago

Granite Asia raises $350 million for fund backed by Temasek, Khazanah, INA

The strategy, called Libra Hybrid, is targeting $500 million in total commitments and drew capital f...

Tech 1 week ago

Oil-rich UAE turns to AI to grease economy

Deep in the Abu Dhabi desert, a vast AI campus a quarter the size of Paris is starting to emerge, th...

Academia 1 week ago

Asia's stocks ride a reform wave, but rough seas lie ahead

The region's flagship index has jumped more than 25 percent this year as a wave of governance re...

Asia & Pacific 1 week ago

Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban

For social media businesses, the implementation marks a new era of structural stagnation as user num...

Currently Obsessed 1 week ago

Childfree, but not care-free: What I learned from a parenting book

A parenting book gave unexpected lessons in healing, empathy and how to show up better for the child...

Academia 1 week ago

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AI is not the risk. Our habits are

A nation’s relationship with technology is forged in childhood, where habits of curiosity, per...

Asia & Pacific 1 week ago

US backs Japan in dispute with China over radar incident

The United States has for the first time criticized China for aiming radars at Japanese military air...

Entertainment 1 week ago

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‘Daly City’ brings Indonesian American story front and center

Told through the eyes of a young boy, a tender, clear-eyed short movie brings the Indonesian diaspor...

Academia 1 week ago

Warm oceans seem to be turning even ‘weak’ cyclones deadly

Cyclones Ditwah and Senyar show we must prepare for storms that are weak in wind but extreme in rain...

Economy 1 week ago

US trade deal with Indonesia at risk of collapse, US official says

The two countries in July said Indonesia agreed to eliminate tariffs on more than 99 percent of...

Archipelago 1 week ago

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Indonesia welcomes first panda born in the country

Reproducing giant pandas is considered one of the greatest challenges in wildlife conservation. Fema...

Academia 1 week ago

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Have we not learned our lessons?

In places where communities had been trained to respond to early warnings, the difference is strikin...

Politics 1 week ago

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‘Light’ sentencing stunts Indonesia’s corruption fight

Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) recently found that graft convicts only get a prison sentence of th...

Archipelago 1 week ago

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Mt. Semeru erupts, dozens of homes buried by rain lahar, hundreds flee to hills

The volcano has been highly active lately, with earlier eruptions occurring on Dec. 5 and Nov. 19.&n...

Academia 1 week ago

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China’s one trillion trade surplus: Turning tariffs into gain

Europe now relies heavily on Chinese components to support its energy transition, while Southeast As...

Academia 1 week ago

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Analysis: IMIP airport raises questions on transparency and oversight

The presence of the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP) Private Airport in Morowali Regency, C...

Archipelago 1 week ago

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Death strikes stranded evacuees in isolated Sumatra shelters

Suffering through days without clean water or proper medical care, evacuees packed into emergency sh...

Asia & Pacific 1 week ago

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Prabowo focuses on health on Pakistan trip

President Prabowo Subianto announced on Tuesday that Pakistan has agreed to help bolster Indonesia&#...

Editorial 1 week ago

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Rights on borrowed time

The state's disaster response in Sumatra only shows that victims of the floods and landslides ha...

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