The middle class can play a pivotal role as a growth driver in achieving Indonesia’s Golden Vision of becoming a high-income ...

Wang Huning, chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and a close associate of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, visited Indonesia on an official mission last week aimed at ...

Setyana Mapasa, an Olympic badminton player, had to give up her Indonesian citizenship to play the sport for Australia. After moving to Sydney in 2013, she was still able to visit her family in ...

[JAKARTA] Bank Indonesia’s (BI) vow to prioritise currency stability as it tries to boost growth may cushion the rupiah at a time when investors are avoiding the nation’s assets, analysts said. “In ...

Hundreds of people have been killed and millions displaced as extreme weather has ravaged Southeast Asia this month. Indonesia’s heavy rain was linked to two tropical cyclones. By Jin Yu Young and ...

SINGAPORE: Anyone travelling to Indonesia has to be skilled in arithmetic gymnastics when exchanging foreign currency into the local rupiah. The temporary euphoria created by the illusion of becoming ...

KUCHING: An Indonesian man has been sentenced to three years' jail by the Sessions Court here for possessing counterfeit banknotes totalling RM138,920. Judge Musli Abdul Hamid handed down the sentence ...

[SINGAPORE] In Indonesia, travellers and even locals have long grappled with prices in rupiah that stretch into the millions and billions, making regular purchases seem confusingly expensive. A ...

Indonesian authorities said they have identified a 17-year-old boy as the suspected perpetrator of an attack that shook a mosque at a high school during Friday prayers in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, ...

Activists shout slogans during a protest against lawmakers' perks and police brutality outside the Indonesian parliament building in Jakarta, Indonesia. Willy Kurniawan/Reuters Motivated by growing ...

In recent weeks, Indonesia has been rocked by massive anti-government demonstrations. The protests are led by students, workers and women’s rights groups angered by the yawning gap between Indonesia’s ...