As Indonesia’s education landscape rapidly embraces digital learning and transformation, educators and researchers are increasingly seeking deeper, culturally grounded insights into what truly motivates students. For Indonesian-born scholar Associate Professor Gregory Arief D. Liem, these questions have shaped a lifelong research mission that contributes to global conversations on student motivation.

Greer declined to discuss the state of the trade talks with Indonesia, saying they were subject to a confidentiality agreement, but underscoring Washington's interest in finalizing the trade deal.

The national security strategies document speaks of reducing America’s trade imbalances, increasing commerce, securing supply chains and reindustrializing the country.

Countries with high disaster risk do not leave disaster protection to voluntary market behavior

When handling the nationwide anti-government protests in August, the police used a variant of tear gas grenade that contains explosive charges, which is banned in police crowd control in several countries.

Competing claims over who holds legitimate authority in the country’s most influential Islamic organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), have thrown the organization into turmoil after its supreme council appointed an acting chairman, a move that was opposed by current chairman Yahya Cholil Staquf.

Many people today are burning the furniture to keep the house warm, and when the wood runs out, they are buying firewood on high-interest credit.

Authorities are struggling to restore power in northern Sumatra, particularly in Aceh, after widespread floods and landslides last month, triggered by a rare cyclone and exacerbated by environmental destruction, with felled trees sweeping away villages, causing massive damage and hampering recovery.

Indonesia’s banking industry is cautiously optimistic about 2026 loan growth after sluggish demand this year.

It was the second time the pair have met this year in Russia, as Putin courts Prabowo, the leader of the world's fourth most populous country, to build stronger ties with the Global South while his economy remains under Western sanctions because of the war in Ukraine.

Building more infrastructure and opening real economic opportunities in the outer cities and beyond will help relieve Jakarta’s heavy burden.

News reports suggest that talks aimed at reaching a final bilateral trade agreement were in danger of collapsing over growing frustration in Washington.

According to preliminary data from Bank Indonesia (BI) published on Wednesday, the retail sales index (RSI) was projected to have climbed to 222.1 in November, marking a solid 5.9 percent year-on-year (yoy) increase from 209.7 in November 2024.

President Prabowo Subianto became the second Indonesian to receive Pakistan's highest civilian honor Nishan-e-Pakistan after former president and his former father-in-law Soeharto, who received the award in 1982.

The government assessed that there were relations between activities of the three companies with natural disasters affecting several regions in North Sumatra.

According to preliminary police information, the fire is suspected to have been triggered by a drone battery that exploded on the ground floor, although investigators from the National Police’s Forensic Laboratory (Puslabfor Bareskrim) are still working to determine the definitive cause.

Supply disruptions of various types of chilies and vegetables have increased the prices in Batam following the flooding in the northern part of Sumatra.

Estimates indicate 600 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of gas initially in place, with a potential of beyond 1 trillion cubic feet (Tcf).

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who lives in hiding, is due to receive her Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Wednesday, but hours before the ceremony it was still unclear whether she would attend.

Thailand's foreign minister said in an interview on Tuesday that he saw no potential for negotiations in the border conflict, adding the situation was not conducive to third-party mediation, while a top adviser to Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet told Reuters his country was "ready to talk at any time".

Cambodia withdrew on Wednesday from the Southeast Asian Games, a Games official said, as a border conflict with hosts Thailand escalated and forced a mass exodus of civilians from both sides of the disputed frontier. 

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

The strategy, called Libra Hybrid, is targeting $500 million in total commitments and drew capital from global institutions including sovereign wealth funds and Granite Asia's partners, Granite Asia said in a statement.

Deep in the Abu Dhabi desert, a vast AI campus a quarter the size of Paris is starting to emerge, the oil-rich UAE's boldest bet yet on technology it hopes will help transform its economy.

The region's flagship index has jumped more than 25 percent this year as a wave of governance reforms and fresh domestic money has started to chip away at a decade-long valuation gap with the United States.

For social media businesses, the implementation marks a new era of structural stagnation as user numbers flatline and time spent on platforms shrinks, studies show.

A parenting book gave unexpected lessons in healing, empathy and how to show up better for the children around me and the parents doing their best.