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ACHIEVING RECIPROCAL TRADE: Today, the Trump Administration finalized a landmark trade agreement with Indonesia that will provide Americans with unprecedented market access and unlock major ...
Indonesian rescuers found alive on Tuesday 11 people missing at sea who had survived a boat capsize in bad weather by swimming for at least six hours to the nearest island, officials said.
Indonesia's weather agency warned on Friday that a second tropical cyclone in the space of a week could trigger floods and landslides in more central areas after cyclone Seroja killed 163 people in eastern parts of the country.
Indonesia has spent 75 trillion rupiah ($4.24 billion) on its free meals programme as of April 30, finance minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa told reporters on Tuesday.
Indonesia's state airline Garuda Indonesia is seeking $936 million from a rights issue that will be held after it completes its court-led debt restructuring, according to its chief executive Irfan Setiaputra.
Bank Indonesia is likely to hold rates at a record low on Thursday, but one in three economists polled by Reuters expected a 25 basis-point hike to shore up the rupiah currency and guard against capital outflows stemming from aggressive U.S. rate hikes.
Deadly floods from a cyclone hit Indonesia and Sri Lanka, while an earthquake shook northeastern Japan.
Indonesia has offered to cut duties on key imports from the United States to "near zero" and to buy $500 million worth of U.S. wheat as part of its tariff talks with Washington, its lead negotiator and a wheat industry association said on Friday.
Parliament on Tuesday approved a bill to relocate Indonesia's capital from Jakarta to a site deep within the jungle of Kalimantan on Borneo island, the most significant advancement of an idea the country's leaders have been toying with for years.
Indonesia's Constitutional Court on Thursday ordered the government to amend parts of a new job creation law within two years, citing procedural flaws in how the controversial legislation was handled.
Mitsubishi Corp (8058.T) and other Japanese firms said on Monday an Indonesian regulator has approved their plan to develop the Ubadari natural gas field and raise output at the Vorwata gas field using carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS).
Bank Indonesia Governor Perry Warjiyo said on Friday a low reading for the core inflation rate in June provided monetary policymakers with the flexibility and room to not have to rush to raise interest rates.
Indonesia has formed a task force that includes law enforcement officials to go after nearly $8 billion of unrepaid state funds handed out to bank owners during the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, ministers said on Friday.
A criminal case against Myanmar's newly-elected President Min Aung Hlaing was filed in Indonesia on Monday by a group of civil society organisations, accusing the leader of acts of genocide against the Rohingya ethnic group.
Boeing Co (BA.N) issued a technical bulletin to airlines reminding them to ensure pilots closely monitor the airplane's state and flight path to prevent a loss of control in flight, according to a document seen by Reuters.
Nearly one in three companies on the Indonesia Stock Exchange, including some of its biggest listings, would be affected by capital market reforms pledged by Jakarta, potentially unleashing over $11 billion in new share supply, according to a Reuters analysis of public data and an IDX official.
Indonesia's central bank kept its policy rates unchanged on Tuesday, and signalled it would leave them at a record low until at least the end of the year to support the economic recovery.
Indonesia may delay plans to impose an excise tax on plastic and sweetened beverages to 2023, the finance ministry's director general of customs and excise, Askolani, said on Wednesday.
Indonesia estimated that it would need up to 100 trillion rupiah ($5.9 billion) for additional energy subsidies this year due to the impact of the Iran war, its finance minister said on Wednesday.
Indonesia's President Joko Widodo signed an emergency regulation on Friday to replace a controversial job creation law that a court had ruled was flawed, arguing global economic uncertainty next year gives him a legal basis for such a move.
Jarred Shaw's globe-trotting basketball career has taken him to 20 different teams across the world but a stint in Indonesia has resulted in the American languishing in jail with deteriorating health after falling foul of the country's notoriously tough anti-narcotics laws. The 35-year-old Texan admitted to importing 132 cannabis gummies but only to help relieve the symptoms of Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammation of the digestive tract which can be eased by Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) as well as steroids and immunosuppressants. While drug trafficking can be punishable by death in Indonesia, Shaw was last December found guilty of the lesser charge of possession and sentenced to 26 months in prison in Tangerang, the city where he had been playing for the Hawks club in the Indonesian Basketball League. The former Oklahoma State and Utah State forward told Reuters that incarceration had been disastrous for his health and is pleading for international pressure to be put on the Indonesian authorities to release him before he suffers permanent damage.