An assignment to the office of United Nations General Assembly’s president may help the holder of the forum’s presiding office to reflect a range of views among the body’s member states, including those of the Global South.

MSCI isn’t questioning whether investors can pull their money out of Indonesia—it's questioning whether the market's prices are real, leaving regulators racing to prove that multi-trillion-rupiah fines punish the manipulators rather than the investors caught in the crossfire.

Nearly half of acute respiratory illness cases caused by wildfire in Sumatra and Kalimantan recorded in the past two months are children who are more vulnerable to wildfire haze because of their biological conditions.

Questions have been raised over Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister Nusron Wahid’s failure to answer two summonses from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), with calls growing for investigators to bring him in for questioning upon his return from Malaysia.

With MSCI threatening to reclassify Indonesia as a standalone market, Jakarta's credibility will not be saved by issuing more rules, but by proving it has the muscle to enforce them.

State-owned lender Bank Mandiri (BMRI) recently issued US$750 million in perpetual bonds, an uncommon instrument among Indonesian corporates, with an initial annual distribution rate of 7.35 percent. The issuance is intended to strengthen the bank’s capital base by bolstering its Additional Tier 1 (AT1) capital and supporting business expansion. However, it has also fuelled speculation that BMRI, along with other Himbara banks, may be facing mounting financial demands from their involvement in financing government programmes.

Detectives from the National Police's Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim) have cooperated with PLN engineers in investigating what caused the Oct. 12 total blackout.

Demonstrations took place in Jakarta, Yogyakarta and Bandung in West Java, with protesters criticizing government policies they said had failed to address pressing public concerns during Prabowo’s two years in office.

After a busy first year of raising its international profile, questions remain over how the Prabowo administration intends to translate its efforts into a coherent foreign policy strategy.

Two groups were arrested over a period of two weeks. The first arrests took place on Sept. 22 when nine fishermen from Tonduk village on Raas Island were arrested by Australian authorities. The second group was arrested was on Oct. 8 with 13 fishermen detained, all from the same village.

Various police forces in North Sumatra raided drugs dens in their own jurisdictions, arresting scores of drugs users and dealers as well as confiscating pieces of evidence.

Anwar Ibrahim's high-stakes gamble to normalize ties with Myanmar's junta chief may win cheap points at home, but it threatens to shatter ASEAN's united front and abandon the Rohingya to peril.

In a reversal from last year’s tend, foreign direct investment (FDI) accounts for the lion’s share of realized investment in Indonesia so far this year, as domestic investors hold back.

In response to the moves, the IDX Composite climbed more than 5 percent on Tuesday, rebounding from a nearly 15 percent drop over Friday and Monday.

France's unrest is exposing deep political and economic fault lines ahead of next year's presidential election, analysts say, strengthening anti-establishment forces while leaving the cash-strapped government with little room to respond.

Opposition group Perikatan Nasional (PN) is facing growing rifts of its own between the conservative Islamist party PAS - which has the most seats of any single party in Malaysia's 222-member parliament - and the Malay nationalist party Bersatu, with both vying for leadership of the coalition.

The debris was found on Monday morning by a plantation worker in Indonesian Borneo, after residents reported hearing a loud bang the previous evening over a remote area of Central Kalimantan province.

For many regions, ferries are not merely a transport option; they provide essential access to jobs, education, health care and markets. Ferry tariff policies must therefore do more than keep travel affordable. They must also ensure that operators can deliver reliable and safe services.

Indonesian coal prices rose to US$154 per tonne for coal with a calorific value of 6,330 kcal/kg.

Behind the facade of regular elections and court battles, the country has quietly traded democratic governance for a militarized cartel, begging the real question: Who can still say no to the President?

Police have requested helicopters for water bombing because of steep terrain and cliffs, making it difficult for the joint firefighter team to reach by land.

Jakarta's benchmark index rose 3 percent on Tuesday, after hitting a six-year low in the previous session as the world's worst-performing stock market this year dropped 14.8 percent over Friday and Monday.

Trading traditional consensus building for high-stakes presidential dealmaking, Prabowo has transformed Indonesian diplomacy into a high-wire act of transactional multi-alignment where soaring global ambition collides with mounting geopolitical risks.

To survive his sinking popularity and an unruly coalition, President Prabowo is reviving New Order-style remilitarization, turning the TNI into his political shield at the peril of military professionalism.

Crude prices resumed their climb as markets weighed an executive order from US President Donald Trump that waived some sanctions and tariffs on Russian energy.

Greatness is not declared from a podium, and as state control replaces market discipline, Indonesia’s vital signs are heading the wrong way.

A study involving around 60 researchers finds that the House of Orange-Nassau supported colonial violence, forced labor and slavery, even when its direct political power was limited.