In Java, the relocation of the Indonesian capital from Jakarta to purpose-built Nusantara in Kalimantan raises new hopes for both ruling elites and the Jakarta people.
Helen Brown
Indonesia’s first interest rate hike in four years made its central bank one of the last to abandon pandemic-era monetary settings, but it’s also given investors cause to stay bullish on one of the world’s more resilient emerging markets.
Coming after two years of pandemic-induced deficit spending, the budget assumes a strong return to growth and revenue potential in the years to come.
We needn’t worry too much about monkeypox, Indonesia’s Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said, as the disease mostly causes unsavory cosmetic changes and not fatalities.
In particular, it contains provisions that criminalize defamation and insult of public officials, including the President and members of the government.
Australia wants to put more of its $2.3 trillion pool of retirement savings to work in Indonesia as the government seeks to strengthen economic ties with its neighbor.
Grassroots initiatives in several Indonesian cities have sprung up aimed at achieving food security through urban and family farming.
Working as a close research partner of Twitter, we are focusing on information manipulation in the Indo-Pacific to encourage transparency around these activities and norms of behaviour that are conducive to open democracies in the region.
Associate Professor Sharyn Davies, Director of the Herb Feith Indonesia Engagement Centre and Indonesian Consulate General Melbourne 2022 Award winner, explains what the award means to her.
In Indonesia, the Bali-based rock band Navicula has spent the past 25 years tackling some of the country’s biggest social and environmental ills — corruption, human rights abuses, religious extremism, pollution, deforestation — through powerful, gritty, anthemic tracks.
A family on an Indonesian island poses for a photo with an elderly relative no longer able to smile, while another clan tries to dress one of their eldest forebears in khakis and a shirt.
Various agricultural groups have warned the central government that the country is rapidly losing farming land and are calling for immediate action.
Indonesians who were imprisoned as adult people smugglers using deeply flawed evidence have asked the current attorney general to use his mercy powers and resolve the “mockery of justice” overseen by his predecessor.
Hundreds of culturally significant artefacts from an historic Asian shipwreck that were offered for sale online before being seized under Australian legislation have been returned to the Indonesian Government.
Indonesia’s president said Thursday that his government is considering imposing a tax on nickel exports this year to increase revenue and promote higher-value local manufacturing.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the potential release of Umar Patek, jailed over the deadly 2002 blasts, will further ‘distress’ Australians.
