Three women with machetes stood guard at their farm hilltop on Indonesia’s Wawonii Island, directing their blades towards the nickel miners working in the forest clearing below. “I pointed the…
Transformational change is not impossible. No matter what political party one supports or what views one has about various political personalities, there is consensus about one thing. The state of…
Indonesian farmer Okky Pratama usually sells dozens of cattle for Eid al-Adha, making his biggest earnings around the Islamic day of sacrifice, but this year he has sold just five.…
Big-name investors including Expedia and Alibaba are pumping billions of dollars into Indonesian tech start-ups in a bid to capitalise on the country's burgeoning digital economy and potential as Southeast…
THE Indonesian National Action Plan on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (NAP on PCVE) that Leads to Terrorism reflects the fact that countering extremism (CE) requires both long- and short-term…
The latest wave of coronavirus infections in Indonesia will now delay inflationary pressures in the economy until late 2022, and the central bank’s policy interest rate cannot be raised from…
Abandoning Jakarta for a new capital in Borneo won’t save the fast-sinking Indonesian megacity from disaster and could even spark a fresh environmental crisis in a region home to rainforests…
Indonesia's Pertamina has received a license from the government to export gasoil for the first time, three sources close to the matter said on Monday, although the state oil company…
Indonesia’s ambitious biodiesel programme will increase the risks of deforestation as more tropical forest could be cleared to grow palm oil, environmentalists have warned, urging policymakers to implement a long-term…
Indonesia will no longer permit mining waste to be disposed in the ocean to allay concerns about the environmental impact of processing nickel used in electric vehicle (EV) batteries, a…
