More than half of Indonesian households still burn their trash, often because bulky or inorganic waste isn’t collected and dumping it creates safety risks in dense neighbourhoods.
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Prof. Meldal yang juga merupakan Head of the Center for Evolutionary Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, tampil sebagai pembicara utama dalam kegiatan “Nobel Laureate Lecture at Hasanuddin University”.
Pertemuan ini dilakukan untuk menjaga keberlanjutan studi tentang Indonesia di Australia sekaligus membuka peluang mobilitas akademisi, dan tenaga terampil Indonesia ke tingkat global.
Peter McGregor, National Treasurer of AIBC, stated that this year’s mission differs from the previous year. If in 2025 the focus was still on understanding the Indonesian economy, the discussion has now moved to the stage of eliminating obstacles and building investment capabilities.
An Australian aged care operator has recruited 16 highly skilled Personal Care Workers (PCWs) after three days of intensive interviews in Jakarta under a new international recruitment program, Talent Connect.
Moody’s Ratings has maintained Indonesia’s sovereign credit rating at Baa2 but revised the outlook to negative, warning that weakening policy predictability and governance risks could erode investor confidence and raise borrowing costs if left unaddressed.
Australian live feeder prices have now pushed above Indonesia’s effective government price cap. Indonesia again carried the bulk of 2025 volumes, but the Philippines and new breeder markets added welcome depth.
Indonesian miners have halted spot coal exports after the government proposed deep production cuts, leaving Asian buyers unable to secure supplies from the world’s largest exporter, industry officials said on Tuesday.
Indonesia’s move to pause biodiesel expansion and expectations of higher production in the coming months are likely to pressure palm oil prices, although strong demand and slowing growth in overall output could limit the downside, analysts said.
The close neighbour has sent business delegates to explore investment opportunities in Indonesia. President Prabowo Subianto has ordered the state asset fund Danantara to spearhead the waste-to-energy project. Australia’s Business Champion for Indonesia Jennifer Westacott revealed on Wednesday that Danantara had made its business pitch of how foreign investors could join the country’s quest to generate electricity from waste.
Australia-Indonesia Centre industry fellow and author Jemma Purdey said the treaty indicated any concerns Indonesia held about the AUKUS arrangement were in the past. President Prabowo has faced criticism at home for appearing to abandon the nation’s long-held foreign policy of non-alignment.
While there are no figures on the number of middle-class activists, many academic papers have been written on the rise in new types of activism in the last two or three years. Indonesian academics and civil society organisations have termed these types of activism as “gerakan rimpang”, or “rhizomatic movements”.
Investors were particularly jittery about Djiwandono’s appointment, which was made while the rupiah was under pressure against the US greenback. Critics, meanwhile, questioned Kadir’s appointment to the Constitutional Court.
The ambassador said that its focus on investment reflected Australia’s commitment to expand economic cooperation with Indonesia beyond trade, adding that Australia has appointed Prof. Jennifer Westacott, the Chancellor of Western Sydney University, as Australia’s “business champion” for Indonesia.
Born in Jakarta, Able Seaman Setiono immigrated to Australia at four years old. With his extended family still living in Indonesia, the tragic events of one of the world’s most catastrophic natural disasters rocked the Australian-Indonesia community to its core.
Indonesia imported 1,383 more cows from Australia this week, agriculture officials said on Monday, as part of an ambitious $3 billion plan to woo small farmers to join efforts to quadruple dairy output.
