An undersea magnitude -7.4 earthquake toppled buildings in parts of northern Indonesia, sent people fleeing from their homes, killed at least one person and generated a small tsunami Thursday. Waves ...

Indonesia’s central bank tightened foreign-exchange regulations as policymakers in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy try to soften the impact of the Middle East war on inflation and the rupiah. Bank ...

Screenshot—President Prabowo Subianto presides over a plenary cabinet meeting at the State Palace in Jakarta on Friday (March 13, 2026). ANTARA/HO-Presidential Secretariat Jakarta (ANTARA) - President ...

Indonesia will soon become the latest country to pass laws restricting children from accessing social media, following in the footsteps of Australia and its neighbor Malaysia. But unlike Australia, ...

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Indonesia’s credit outlook was cut to negative by Fitch Ratings Inc. on rising policy uncertainty, adding to a widening chorus of warnings about risks to the Southeast Asian nation’s assets. The ...

JAKARTA, March 4 (Reuters) - Fitch downgraded Indonesia's sovereign credit rating outlook from stable to negative on Wednesday, the latest in a series of blows to investor sentiment in Southeast ...

In February, U.S. President Donald Trump and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto signed an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade, the outline of which was agreed to during a phone call between the two ...

Indonesia is embarking on a plan to make toll roads across the country into emergency runways for its fighter jets, giving it the equivalent of multiple aircraft carriers across the vast archipelago.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia on Friday began enforcing its newly ratified penal code, replacing a Dutch-era criminal law that had governed the country for more than 80 years and marking a major ...

Many logs became forces of destruction in Indonesia last week, in a sign that deforestation compounded the devastation wrought by a cyclone. Many logs became forces of destruction in Indonesia last ...