When Doreen Biehle’s husband died, her living situation became precarious.
David Sexton
Indonesia’s gross domestic product growth is forecast to average 5.1% per year from 2024 to 2026, the World Bank’s Indonesia Economic Prospects report said, despite headwinds from a subsiding commodity boom, increased volatility in food and energy prices, and rising geopolitical uncertainty.
Findings from the Partnership for Australia-Indonesia Research (PAIR) program are being used to help drive growth in the blue economy of Sulawesi, Indonesia.
The Indonesian Seaweed Association (ARLI) has reported that 10 seaweed processing factories, inactive since 2016, are now receiving assistance from the Ministry of Industry to resume operations.
Indonesia’s Health Ministry recorded a comprehensive commitment of 931.7 million USD in foreign direct grants between 2021 and 2025 to improve its national health funding, medical device procurement, and services.
As President Joko Widodo’s administration comes to an end, the government is once again considering revising the Indonesian National Military (TNI) Law. The same discussions appeared at the end of President Joko Widodo’s first term and have become a regular news headline.
Indonesians are expected to generate around 600 tons of plastic waste from around 120 million plastic bags while distributing sacrificial meat during Eid al-Adha.
Indonesia plans to run clinical trials of several vaccines to fight surging cases of tuberculosis (TB) this year, with concerns the disease might affect economic growth, ministers said on Monday.
Indonesia’s national data center has been compromised by a hacking group asking for a $8 million ransom that the government says it won’t pay.
With relations between Australia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) strong, the time is right for Australia to advocate for a high-level Australia–Indonesia–PNG trilateral strategic partnership.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo admitted on Monday that event organizers had been struggling to hold concerts and international sports championships in Indonesia due to bureaucratic red tape.
Indonesia’s economy is fundamentally strong and growing beyond market expectations, its senior economic minister said on Monday, after the rupiah fell to four-year lows against the dollar last week.
In late May 2024, Indonesia’s Anti-corruption Commission (KPK) began prosecuting former Supreme Court Judge Gazalba Saleh in the Central Jakarta District Court. It indicted him for taking a bribe of around Rp 650 million to overturn a businessperson’s conviction and one-year prison sentence (for failing to properly manage hazardous waste his company produced).
Until recently, the village of Samar Kilang in Indonesia’s Bener Meriah district, near the northern tip of the island of Sumatra, was largely cut off from the rest of Indonesian society.
Morwan Mohammad walks down an old hotel corridor on Batam Island in northwestern Indonesia before entering a 6-square-meter (64-square-foot) room that has been home to him and his growing family for eight years.
Voice of Baceprot are a devoutly Muslim all-female thrash metal band hell-bent on shattering the genre’s masculine image and misconceptions about Islam.
