Indonesians will go to the polls on February 14 in what is dubbed a “festival of democracy”. They will be choosing not only a new president and vice president but also parliamentary and local ...
Indonesia's parliament has approved a new criminal code that bans anyone in the country from having extramarital sex and restricts political freedoms. Sex outside marriage will carry a jail term of up ...
Corruption continues to blight Indonesia as President Jokowi nears the end of his second term. Four political figures related to his regime have recently been sentenced for wrongdoing. Indonesia has ...
The U.S. and Indonesia agreed to the framework of a trade agreement, the White House said in a joint statement. Jakarta will drop almost all tariffs on U.S. goods, while imports to the U.S. from ...
As the world’s largest archipelago of 17,000 islands, Indonesia spans two bio-geographic regions - the Indomalayan and Australasian - and supports tremendous biodiversity of animal and plant life in ...
Medan, Indonesia – Indonesia might seem like a natural fit to join an expanded BRICS, the group of emerging economies made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The Southeast Asian ...
In the period before western European powers were able to control Southeast Asian soil and waters, there existed no Indonesia. The archipelago we now know as Indonesia consisted of islands and estates ...
Officials stand near of high-speed railway during the opening ceremony for launching Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway at Padalarang station in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, Oct. 2, 2023. It ...
This is Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. Headway The audacious project to build a green and walkable capital city from the ground up. By Hannah Beech Photography by Ulet Ifansasti Headway is an ...
Indonesia will no longer permit mining waste to be disposed in the ocean to allay concerns about the environmental impact of processing nickel used in electric vehicle (EV) batteries, a government official and a corporate mining source said.
Short video app TikTok said it will halt transactions on its platform in Indonesia from Wednesday following the country's new ban on e-commerce trade on social media.
Indonesia allowed the resumption of palm oil exports from Monday after a three-week ban, but industry players said shipments were unlikely to restart until details emerge on how much of the edible oil must be held back for domestic use.
Indonesia is preparing an incentives package to attract investment in its future $32 billion capital city Nusantara, an official said on Tuesday, hoping to deliver on a key plank of President Joko Widodo's economic agenda.
Police in Indonesia were on Saturday hunting suspected militants accused of killing four people said by rights groups to be Christians, beheading one and burning down their homes.
Chinese battery material maker CNGR Advanced Material Co is planning to build an integrated production facility worth $10 billion in nickel-rich Indonesia, a local official for the company said on Wednesday.
China's President Xi Jinping told Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo on Tuesday that Beijing would support Chinese firms in their efforts to boost investment in Indonesia, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Indonesia, the world's biggest palm oil biodiesel user, is now working to introduce bioethanol mandates for gasoline to further cut fuel imports and carbon emissions, but it will first have to secure more bio feedstock and solve thorny technical problems.
Indonesia's foreign minister on Thursday defended her country's objection to a global deforestation pledge made last week, promising during a visit by her British counterpart to "walk the talk" on climate commitments.
Accelerate the vaccine rollout, and improve testing-tracing-isolation, and other non-pharmaceutical interventions such as adequate mobility restrictions to get ahead in the race against infections.
Defending champions Thailand fought back from going a goal behind and seeing a player sent off to earn a 1-1 draw with Indonesia in Jakarta in the Asean Championship on Friday in a re-run of last year's final.
Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto has issued a new decree to restart international carbon emission trading after a four year hiatus, according to a copy of the decree seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
China and Indonesia will enhance the scale of bilateral trade and further expand cooperation in areas including agriculture and food security, the Chinese foreign ministry said after a meeting of the countries' leaders.
Indonesia has ended a deal with Norway on cooperation to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation, due to lack of payment, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
Indonesia booked a current account surplus of $13.2 billion in 2022, or 1% of gross domestic product, as the resource-rich country enjoyed high commodity prices and exports last year, its central bank said.
Indonesia's decision to outlaw cohabitation and sex outside of marriage may hurt the tourism industry in Bali, travelers and businesses said, just as the island destination gets back on its feet after the COVID pandemic.
South Korean battery maker True Digital Leader (TDL) Global Co Ltd, plans to invest around $200 million in Indonesia by 2030 to produce electric motorcycle batteries and energy storage systems, a company executive said on Thursday.
Indonesia's central bank intervened in the foreign exchange market to defend the rupiah, its governor said on Friday, vowing to use monetary policy to stabilise the currency after it fell
When Ari Harifin Hendriyawan's mother tested positive for the coronavirus, their neighbours brought a hammer and nails and boarded up the lane.
Indonesia has asked former colonial ruler the Netherlands to return eight historical artefacts from its museums, including bones of the Java Man, the first known fossils of the Homo erectus species from which humans are believed to have evolved.
An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck the Biak region in Indonesia on Sunday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.