Indonesia should tread carefully before deepening ties with Russia, analysts said, after President Prabowo Subianto made an unplanned visit to Moscow this week, raising questions about the diplomatic and economic costs of closer engagement – including how Washington could respond.
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Indonesia’s provincial minimum wage would rise by 5.3% to 7.3% next year under a new government rule, an increase that businesses thinks is too high, an official at the country’s employers association Apindo said on Wednesday (Dec 17).
In simple medical terms it is traveller’s diarrhoea, mainly caused by bacteria or viruses, said Debby Sartika Mahardhika, a doctor from Sanur Medical Clinic in Bali.
Sate Sesep Aroma comprises four small, joined shopfronts. The first three are dining rooms that are “kind of” clean. The magic happens in the fourth shopfront, where two cooks work a 2m long charcoal-powered grill in a never-ending quest to fill orders from a never-ending stream of customers and delivery drivers.
Nongkrong Festival held the ‘Barang-Bareng’ event on Sunday, 14 December 2025, at Carlton Gardens in Melbourne. Nongkrong is a festival organised by a group of Indonesian-Australians as a space for the diaspora to gather and maintain cultural connections.
Palm oil prices extended losses on Wednesday, pressured by swelling inventories and weaker export demand, even as Indonesia ramps up efforts to secure tariff relief in key overseas markets.
Australia is emerging as an alternative destination in global people smuggling routes involving Chinese nationals, as tougher US border controls push smuggling networks to test new maritime pathways through South-East Asia.
Conservationists fear up to 11% of Tapanuli orangutan population perished in disaster that also killed 1,000 people.
Indonesian Minister of Finance Decree No. 12/MK/BC/2025 (KMK-12), which concerns the determination of types of units of goods used in export customs declarations, was officially stipulated on November 7 2025 and became effective on November 13 2025 after a four-business-day waiting period.
Indonesian companies signed the Zero Tolerance for Gender-Based Violence and Harassment Pledge, supported by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Indonesia Business Coalition for Women’s Empowerment (IBCWE).
Indonesia is making steady progress toward ensuring everyone can access the health services they need without financial hardship, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) and World Bank Group report on Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
Cyber specialists from the Australian Defence Force and Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) gathered at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta this month to exchange insights and practical strategies to stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.
A U.S. trade agreement reached with Indonesia in July is at risk of collapsing because Jakarta has backtracked on several commitments it made as part of the deal, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
Bali-bound travel keeps climbing, and Victorian travellers are about to gain another way to get there. Indonesia AirAsia has confirmed a new daily service from Melbourne to Denpasar, starting on 20 March 2026.
In my own childhood, growing up in regional Victoria in the ’80s and ’90s, Indonesian was offered at four of the five schools I attended over 13 years. In 1990, 90,000 kids were studying Indonesian in schools across Australia. By 2000 that number was well over 300,000.
The Ministry of Trade announced that a Mojokerto-based business in East Java has made its first molasses export to Australia, worth US$10,000 or around Rp166.5 million.
