Despite improvement in the domestic economy, Indonesia must remain aware of the ‘China effect’ as that country’s volatile stock market and depreciating currency will affect Indonesia’s stock market and the rupiah due to capital outflows.
An earthquake measuring 6.4 Richter scale rocked eastern parts of Indonesia on Monday night, but it was not potential for tsunami, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency reported here on Tuesday.
The influence of the Islamic State (IS) in Indonesia has become more apparent along with the rapid increase of radicalization within society since IS declared a caliphate in June 2014, the year that marked the rise of one of the most deadliest terror groups ever to exist.
Indonesia's economy took a 221 trillion rupiah (S$22.1-billion) hit this year from forest fires that cloaked South-east Asia in haze, more than double the sum spent on rebuilding Aceh after the 2004 tsunami, the World Bank said on Tuesday (Dec 15).
Arief Yahya, the Minister of Tourism of Republic of Indonesia delivered a keynote speech at the 2nd ASEAN development forum which is held by the Asia Pacific Daily in Hong Kong on Dec 14th with the theme of “Connectivity through interactions between regions, industries and civil societies”.
Indonesia's trade performance in November unexpectedly flipped to 350 million U.S. dollars deficit from 1.02 billion U.S. dollar surplus in October due to rising imports amid weakening export, national statistic bureau said here on Tuesday.
Indonesian Tourism Minister Arief Yahya said here on Monday that his country's new maritime vision could dovetail with China's "Belt and Road" initiative.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo was cautioned on Indonesia's joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership economic regime with critics saying Indonesia is not ready to cope with the consequences.
With economic integration finally looking like a sure thing by yearend for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, perhaps the grouping can deal decisively with the forest fires that each year spawn choking haze not only at the points of origin in Indonesia but also in neighboring countries.
A humanitarian crisis looms in Indonesia as the prolonged dry spell, coupled with waterbombing aircraft getting nowhere near fires seething deep below peatlands, all but ended any hope of a real respite from the haze in the weeks ahead.
Thirty-nine out of 130 Myanmar fishermen, who had been stranded in Indonesia's Ambon Island, have returned to their homeland with the rest to follow later, an official report said Thursday.
Six people were dead while two others were seriously injured in s forest fire in Java Island of Indonesia on Sunday, a senior official said Monday.
Senior officials of Chinese and Indonesian consortiums signed an agreement here on Friday to launch a joint venture for a high-speed railway linking Jakarta with West Java provincial capital of Bandung.
A multinational effort to fight forest fires in Indonesia began on Sunday (Oct 11) as Singapore joined forces with other countries to help douse fires in South Sumatra.
An Indonesian minister said on Wednesday that government is considering possibilities to receive foreign assistance to help the efforts to stop the forest fire in Sumatra and Kalimantan as the scale and level of difficulties in dealing with the problem requires more capable instruments.
Indonesia is facing uphill to deal with forest fire that massively engulfing forest areas in at least eight provinces in Sumatra and Kalimantan as the El Nino weather continues to ensue across the country, risking the health of millions of people.
The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) inked a 500-million-U.S. dollar loan deal on Tuesday with Indonesia's state-run Eximbank to help boost the country's foreign trade and infrastructure.
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