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Markets

Stocks rise as traders push up bets of December Fed cut

Global stocks began an event-filled week on the front foot on Monday, as investors took heart from growing expectations of a Federal Reserve rate cut in December even as policymakers remain divided over such a move.

1 month ago
Academia premium

The stakes of Danantara’s investment in GoTo-Grab

For Danantara, the priority should be safeguarding state investment integrity and keeping Indonesia’s digital market open and credible. Acting prematurely or politically could turn strategic capital into reputational risk. ...

1 month ago
Academia premium

In the country’s foreign policy, Prabowo is Indonesia

Prabowo has shown how deeply he has personalized Indonesia’s foreign policy, turning what was once a collective and deliberative process into a series of gestures driven by instinct, emotion and self-image. ...

1 month ago

The Latest

Middle East and Africa premium

TNI gears up, awaits order for Gaza peace mission

While awaiting President Prabowo Subianto’s official order on Indonesia’s deployment to the international stabilization force (ISF) in Gaza, the Army has begun selecting soldiers for the mission. 

1 month ago
Politics premium

Asset bill pushed to 2026 as House focus on other bills

The asset forfeiture bill is one of the draft regulations included in the 2026 National Legislation Program (Prolegnas), although its deliberation depends on when the legislature completes the derivative regulations of the new KUHAP.

1 month ago
Archipelago premium

Batam requests emergency status over garbage crisis

A sanction from the Environment ministry has forced Batam city administration to only use smaller section of its Telaga Pungkur final dumping site.

1 month ago
Academia premium

The new KUHAP: A digital code with an analogue mindset

Recognizing electronic evidence in name only, without embedding it in a coherent framework of powers and safeguards, invites challenges to the integrity and reliability of digital findings.

1 month ago
Opinion premium

Analysis: Controversy persists as House passes KUHAP bill into law

The House of Representatives has enacted the Criminal Law Procedures Code (KUHAP) bill in a significant move by the government to overhaul the colonial-era framework on Indonesia's criminal procedures, despite widespread objections.

1 month ago
Archipelago premium

Govt to close some 1,400 illegal gold mines in Halimun Salak National Park

The Forest Ministry closed 88 illegal gold mines last week as well as another 200 mines on Oct. 29 and Nov. 7, in Mount Halimun Salak National Park in Sukabumi regency, West Java. 

1 month ago
Politics premium

NU supreme leader tells Yahya to resign over pro-Israel speaker

An internal conflict has erupted in the country’s biggest Islamic organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), with the group’s supreme council calling chairman Yahya Cholil Staquf to resign for inviting a US scholar known for his support of Israel during the war in Gaza to an internal event in August.

1 month ago
Editorial premium

Save healthcare

We need to create better schemes to allow for premiums to increase, which will eventually help improve service, while keeping the poor still insured.

1 month ago
Archipelago premium

Medan Police arrest four suspects in robbery, arson of judge’s house

The main suspect was allegedly "offended" by judge Khamazaro Waruwu, then stole his jewelry and burned parts of his house. The judge's house caught fire after he demanded the Corruption Eradication Commission summon North Sumatra Governor Bobby Nasution. 

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa premium

Gibran steps in for Prabowo at G20 summit under US boycott

Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka called for fairer global finances, as he stood in for President Prabowo Subianto in South Africa amid growing divisions within the G20 following a United States boycott and the promise of a clean break next year.

1 month ago
Economy premium

Loan growth remains sluggish despite Purbaya’s liquidity injection

Disappointing data on bank lending raises questions about the effectiveness of the Finance Ministry’s Rp 200 trillion (US$12 billion) liquidity injection conducted in early September to jump-start economic activity, with economists pointing to a lack of credit demand.

1 month ago
Companies premium

Astra’s gold miner ramps up expansions, M&A to lift output

PT United Tractors, subsidiary of local conglomerate Astra International, acquired Agincourt in 2018 through its subsidiary PT Danusa Tambang Nusantara, which serves as the group's holding company for mineral investments.

1 month ago
Americas

Meta shut down internal research into mental health effects of Facebook, Instagram

In a 2020 research project code-named “Project Mercury,” Meta scientists worked with survey firm Nielsen to gauge the effect of “deactivating” Facebook and Instagram, according to Meta documents obtained via discovery. To the company’s disappointment, “people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness and social comparison,” internal documents said.

1 month ago
Politics

NU asks Yahya Staquf to resign over invitation to pro-Israeli speaker

The leadership of NU, which is also the world's biggest Islamic organisation with around 100 million members and affiliates, has given Chairman Yahya Cholil Staquf three days to offer his resignation or be removed from his post, according to the minutes from a meeting on Thursday. 

1 month ago
Environment

What did countries agree to at COP30?

In a win for developing countries at COP30, the final agreement "calls for efforts to at least triple adaptation finance by 2035." 

1 month ago
Americas

COP30 seals uneasy climate deal that sidesteps fossil fuels

The overnight impasse between the European Union and the Arab Group of nations over fossil fuels had pushed the talks past a Friday deadline, triggering all-night negotiations before a compromise could be reached.

1 month ago
Middle East and Africa

G20 host South Africa sees consensus for summit declaration despite US boycott

In opening remarks to the Johannesburg summit, Ramaphosa said: "There's been overwhelming consensus and agreement that one of the other tasks we should undertake right at the beginning is to [...] adopt our declaration."

1 month ago
Europe

'Carbonara sauce' at EU parliament causes stir with Italy

An Italian minister decried the sauce for containing pancetta, a pork product similar to bacon, which is apparently a major culinary faux pas in food-loving Italy.

1 month ago
Environment

New tech could help COP30's Amazon rainforest protection goals

Using drones to survey land that can be hard to access, a company harnesses AI and other tech to analyze which areas would yield the best returns from restoration in terms of biodiversity, climate and local communities.

1 month ago
Europe

Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons in trials

Nearly 54,000 women and girls were the victims of sexual offences in Germany in 2024, an increase of 2.1 percent on the previous year, of which nearly 36 percent were victims of rape and sexual assault.

1 month ago
Economy

G20 summit opens in South Africa without Trump

Despite not attending the summit, US President Donald Trump's presence loomed large at the event, the first summit of the group of major economies to be held in Africa, after producing a surprise unilateral plan to end the war in Ukraine largely in line with Russia's goals.

1 month ago
Americas

Major MAGA figure Greene resigns from US Congress

The shock move by Greene was the clearest sign yet of a growing split in MAGA world, still churning over strong Democratic victories in this month's off-year elections.

1 month ago
Society premium

Skepticism persists as Indonesia joins global deal on indigenous land

Indonesia pledges to grant 1.4 million hectares of forest to indigenous communities by 2029, endorsing a global agreement aiming to recognize 160 million ha of customary lands in the next five years.

1 month ago
Europe

Ukraine scrambles to respond to US plan to end war

US President Donald Trump has given Ukraine less than a week to sign but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday pledged to work to ensure any deal would not "betray" Ukraine's interests, acknowledging he risked losing Washington as an ally.

1 month ago
Americas

Trump lavishes praise on New York's mayor-elect Mamdani at warm White House meeting

The men, two different generations of New Yorkers, announced nothing new on policy except what seemed to be the launch of an unexpected, politics-shifting professional friendship.

1 month ago
Conversation

Exploring stories and their reasons with Xu Xi

The Chinese-Indonesian-American author reflects on who gets to tell a story, what makes a 'real writer' and what fiction is really for.

1 month ago
Archipelago premium

Pregnant woman, unborn baby die after Papua hospitals refuse treatment

When they arrived at Dian Harapan Hospital, staff informed the family that the facility could not perform the C-section and referred them to Abepura Regional General Hospital, about 6 kilometers away. However, according to the husband, Abepura Hospital also declined to treat Irene and redirected them to Bhayangkara Hospital, 7 kilometers farther.

1 month ago
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