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Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan denied that mining industry downstream projects in the country ...

Controversy around his remarks also reflected widening rift in Widodo’s cabinet, with speculation that some of his ministers are considering resigning over the president’s election meddling.

Popular rock band Slank’s high-profile snub to President Joko Widodo marks a departure from its staunch support over the past decade.

Indonesia is an archipelagic country that geographically located in Indo-Pacific region where a regional flashpoint in the South China Sea is located right at its’ northern border. The flashpoint is due to China’s claim of the so-called Nine-Dash Line area that claims an enormous portion of the South China Sea. In Indonesia’s perspective, the area is violating Indonesia’s Exclusive Economic Zone of the North Natuna Sea. Indonesia is placed in an uneasy situation because China is also off...

Muhaimin Iskandar, the running mate of presidential candidate Anies Baswedan, said the government’s “downstreaming” policy had caused major environmental damage without significantly benefiting locals.

Jakarta is proposing to sell anti-submarine aircraft to Manila even as it expresses interest in acquiring Chinese naval missiles.

Gibran Rakabuming quizzed fellow vice-presidential contenders on ‘difficult’ questions such as greenflation and lithium iron phosphate batteries.

THE common areas of interest identified by the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) and the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) were mining; agriculture, specifically on livestock management; trade; and the digital economy.

While Prabowo tops opinion polls, his stagnating numbers and a potential alliance between his rivals could deny him an outright victory despite Widodo’s ‘partiality’.

Khofifah Indar Parawansa, governor of East Java, is once again seen as instrumental to a presidential victory – just as she was to Joko Widodo ’s second term.