Monash is delighted to announce it has been granted approval by the Government of Indonesia to establish the first foreign university campus in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Helen Brown
The Australia-Indonesia Centre (AIC) welcomes the ratification of the new comprehensive economic agreement known as IA-CEPA.
Both Indonesia and Australia have much work to do in order to strengthen their relationship, notably in building trust between the two countries.
In the ten years since Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono addressed a joint sitting of parliament, relations between Australia and Indonesia have been to hell and back, several times.
Bioplastics may be the answer to tackle the plastic problem that is plaguing the world’s environment, especially the planet’s oceans, and Asean can be the prime mover of this effort.
The Indonesian government has submitted a tax bill that proposes corporate tax cuts and seeks to make internet giants pay more taxes.
Indonesia is largely covered in the press in Australia these days – mainly about the three B’s – boats, beef and Bali. In other words, illegal immigration, live cattle exports and drug smuggling normally dominates.
The world is increasingly erratic. In the past two years, we have witnessed a trade war between the United States and China whose effects are broad and can be felt by all countries.
The world is facing a major food crisis where both obesity and hunger are rising in the context of rapidly changing environments. Alternative food sources such as seaweed could be a possible solution.
Minister Luhut Pandjaitan has shared a story of his enlightenment that maybe Indonesia, after all, needs to have nuclear power.
Musician I Gede ‘Jerinx’ Ari Astina was still a student at the University of National Education in Denpasar, the provincial capital of Bali, when he first got involved in activism.
The Australian government said it was deeply grateful to Indonesia for its commitment to send more than 30 military engineers to support the fight against the bushfires.
Two Indonesian women who allegedly posted misinformation online about the deadly coronavirus have been arrested, police said, as they warned dozens of hoaxes were being rapidly shared.
As well as bursting at its seams, the city is sinking. Two-fifths of Jakarta lies below sea level and parts are dropping at a rate of 20 centimeters (8 inches) a year.
Indonesia has insisted on imposing a travel ban to and from China as an effort to prevent a deadly coronavirus from spreading, even after a Chinese envoy expressed disagreement over the plan.
Resistance to antibiotics has become a crucial global health problem; the World Health Organization predicts there could be 10 million deaths due to antibiotic resistance by 2050.
