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Middle-class Indonesians are among the groups most vulnerable to currency depreciation, because a larger share of their spending is impacted by changing exchange rates.
2 days agoYoung Indonesian diaspora now question whether returning home to serve in public institutions is worth the risk if ambitious reforms can later be reframed as criminal acts. ...
2 days agoAsia-Pacific trade envoys gathered in China are expected to discuss multilateral cooperation, trade imbalances and supply chain resilience in the face of global shocks, including the US-Israeli war on Iran. ...
3 days agoPolice have named a taxi driver a suspect in last month’s deadly rail accident in Bekasi, West Java, while transportation investigators have revealed new findings pointing to possible signaling and operational failures that caused the disaster.
3 days agoAccording to Bloomberg, notifications went out beginning in the early morning hours, with Singapore-based workers among the first to be informed.
3 days agoThe fast-warming tropical Pacific is pointing to a major event but a crucial weakening of trade winds -- capable of turbocharging or throttling the phenomenon -- has yet to materialise.
3 days agoE5 rollout will be concentrated in key high-consumption regions: East Java, Jakarta, West Java, Banten, Central Java and Yogyakarta.
3 days agoTrump said the move was based on his relationship with Poland's president Karol Nawrocki, a nationalist ally whom he said he was "proud to endorse" in elections that Nawrocki won last year.
3 days agoUnder the Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (ART) with the United States signed on Feb. 19, Indonesia agreed to exempt US investors from a regulation requiring natural resource exporters to keep their earnings in Indonesia for a certain duration.
3 days agoTwin cyclones helped trigger massive ocean warming in the Pacific. But whether that leads to a strong El Niño is still uncertain.
3 days agoAn NGO has called for social forestry permits for communities who cultivate protected forest areas while also working to protect the environment to protect them from alleged encroachment in state forest.
3 days agoGrowing concern over global warming and plastic waste is accelerating research into environmentally friendly packaging for food and beverages. As consumers become more aware of sustainability issues, demand is rising for packaging that is biodegradable, renewable, safe and affordable.
1 hour agoTo save Southeast Asia's aviation sector from collapse due to geopolitical and economic crises, regulators must scrap outdated price controls and shift from penalizing airlines to sharing the responsibility of passenger care.
3 days agoIn a new exhibit in Singapore, Indonesian artist Clasutta uses animals, oil on canvas and a touch of humor to map the arc of a relationship.
3 days agoThis year’s Idul Adha is expected to fall on May 27, with around 2.3 million animals projected to be slaughtered nationwide, according to the Agriculture Ministry.
3 days agoAsian stock markets rose Friday as optimism over US-Iran talks buoyed equities, though higher oil prices kept inflation concerns in focus.
3 days agoAs human activity shatters ecological boundaries, viruses once confined to the wild are finding dangerous new pathways into our world.
3 days agoIncoming Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh will be sworn in at the White House on Friday, taking the reins of the US central bank as it faces unprecedented pressure from President Donald Trump to cut interest rates.
3 days agoBaby formula, a processed food designed to supplement or substitute breast milk under certain conditions, can only be provided based on medical indications and doctors’ recommendations, according to the country’s pediatricians’ association.
3 days agoThe Beijing summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping showed that competition between the United States and China need not become a zero-sum struggle for supremacy.
3 days agoBalancing handcrafted traditions with contemporary abstraction, the 53-work exhibition explores memory, identity and emotional texture through richly tactile compositions.
3 days agoThe year-long staple food agreement signed at the ASEAN Summit marked a major breakthrough for the region in facing the global energy and food crises.
3 days agoIndonesia confirmed on Thursday the release of its nine citizens from illegal custody after joining a chorus of international pressure over Israel’s “inhumane treatment” of activists taken from a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
3 days agoTurkish foreign ministry sources said 422 activists, among them 85 Turkish nationals, were flown from southern Israel on three planes chartered by Ankara.
3 days agoit remains to be seen whether President Prabowo’s ambitious "single window" export policy will turn Indonesia into a global price maker, or will tight state centralization trigger a historic crisis of market trust.
3 days agoThe Presidential Palace has partnered with the Indonesia New Media Forum (INMF) in a move it says could significantly expand its social media reach, potentially adding up to 100 million views per day.
3 days agoPresident Prabowo Subianto’s unprecedented speech before lawmakers underscored mounting pressure on his administration to restore market confidence amid growing concerns over economic instability and signs of democratic backsliding reminiscent of the late New Order era.
3 days agoThe Attorney General's Office (AGO) decided to separate the auction of the MT Arman 114 super tanker and its load of some 1.2 million barrels of crude oil, after three failures to auction them as a package.
3 days agoThis country is finding itself at a point where policymakers at the central bank and the government need to choose between faster growth or stability, we cannot have it all.
3 days agoThe new policy signals a shift toward tighter state control over trade, and experts warn that, if not implemented carefully, it could undermine the goal stated by the government, which is to boost state revenue collection by preventing invoicing fraud.
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