If you say “Indonesian art” to switched-on global curators, you get a smile of not only approval but often delight. The Indonesian art that comes to their minds is the energised, politicised (and post-politicised), often-humorous, and bright.
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Indonesia is a country made up of thousands of islands, multiple ethnicities and countless traditions. The cultural richness of the archipelago is still upheld in many villages of the nation.
While Komodo tourism generates significant cash for one of Indonesia’s poorest regions, it has also brought trash, human encroachment and occasional lizard smuggling. “Indonesia needs to diversify its tourism destinations.”
In Surabaya, people can collect plastic trash to get free travel tickets for a ‘plastic bus’. Indonesia hopes to reduce 70% of this kind of waste by 2025.
Media freedom in Indonesia has improved significantly since the end of the Suharto era, but between 2006 and 2014 there were an average of 50 cases of violence against journalists each year.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo was thinking about management overhaul when he appointed Eko Putro Sandjojo as the villages, disadvantaged regions and transmigration minister in 2016.
Indonesia, the top producer of the world’s most-used vegetable oil, is seeking to raise import tariffs on EU dairy products to 8%-18%, according to Trade Minister Enggartiasto Lukita
Thomas Lembong, the influential chairman of the Investment Coordinating Board, BKPM, says opening up the university sector to overseas players will be a key part of the foreign investment push.
Salim, best known for controlling Indofood Sukses Makmur, the country’s largest food company and the world’s largest instant noodle producer, has in recent months been keen to attract younger consumers.
Jakarta residents took to social media on Wednesday to figure out how to get around the restrictions, including strategies such as changing car plates and buying more cars.
Aligning with Gojek could bring Moka the benefit of having access to tens of millions of users and a large merchant network that it may not have had exposure to before.
The church in Jakarta expressed support for LGBT members after finding out many had stopped attending the institution, regarding it as homophobic.
Competition from China and the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ pose existential questions for Indonesian industry. Trade wars, on the other hand, could be beneficial, as Indonesia may be…
Indonesia’s easing cycle is set to last long as policy makers in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy take steps to deal with a deteriorating global economic…
More people are eating more processed foods and foods high in salt, sugar and saturated fat. As a result, obesity, diabetes, heart disease and stroke are becoming major health concerns in middle-income countries, including Indonesia.
Sunday’s outage, which also hit neighbouring provinces, spread across an area populated by more than 100 million people and appeared to have affected most of the capital.
