Indonesia backflips on plans to relax some foreign investment caps
Indonesia has nixed part of a recent plan to ease foreign ownership in a bid…
$200mln from ADB to develop Indonesian higher education & skills
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $200 million loan to upgrade four higher…
Aceh Authorities demand prisoners who mounted impromptu ‘haj’ return (video)
One week after 113 inmates at Lambaro prison in Bandeh Aceh decided to mount their…
Indonesia’s WSMEs: female entrepreneurship without a safety net
Despite the substantial contribution women-led or -owned small and medium enterprises (WSMEs) make to the…
11 minutes of terror: Lion Air Flight JT610s roller coaster ride to death (HD video)
Indonesian air safety investigators yesterday detailed the terrifying 11-minute roller coaster-like ride to death of…
Jerusalem support sees multi-bln dollar IA-CEPA trade deal headed for the rocks (video)
As heads of state and armies of policy and trade officials gather in Singapore for…
Big data: five ways tech is making Asean governments more effective
A new study contends that technology can greatly improve the effectiveness of governance, and a…
Breastfeeding: Indonesia hits back to counter deaths, stunting, economic loss
Aggressive marketing strategies continue to encourage Southeast Asian mothers to choose milk formula over breastfeeding,…
Mission accomplished: Singapore DHL DRT volunteers end Sulawesi deployment (video)
While much of the media attention in the wake of the devastating Sulawesi tsunami was…
Lion Air Flight JT610 crash: bodies, debris found, no hope of survivors (video, gallery)
Indonesian government officials admitted Monday evening that there was no hope of survivors from the…
Latest: Rescuers race to wreckage of Lion Air Flight JT610 (video)
A massive rescue operation is underway off the coast of Indonesia for a Lion Air…
Banned! Indonesia acts against condensed milk marketing
Indonesia’s food safety watchdog has laid down a stern warning about the health risks of…
Safeguarding Indonesia’s development from increasing disaster risks (video)
Imagine that you live near one of the 127 active volcanoes in Indonesia, threatened by the…
Indonesia foreign worker reform unlikely prior to election
Controversy has surrounded revision of Indonesia’s foreign worker regulations ever since a presidential regulation (PP20)…
Indonesia power project threatens Sumatra’s Tapanuli orangutans survival (video)
Teetering between life and death as a species, Sumatra’s recently discovered Tapanuli orangutans are facing…
Jakarta mob beats hit-and-run bus lane interloper (video)
A video gone viral showing mayhem on a Jakarta street reveals two things about Indonesia’s…