Riska Rahman, Jakarta – International rating agency Moody's Investor Service has affirmed its stable rating outlook for Indonesian government debts and maintained local and long-term issuer ratings at Baa2.
The Baa2 ratings also apply to senior unsecured bonds, while medium-term notes and shelf registration programs were also affirmed at Baa2 and (P)Baa2, respectively.
Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar, Bali – Bali tourism stakeholders have rebuffed an online report in a British tabloid suggesting that the resort island had become a "ghost town" due to a decline in the number of Chinese tourists following Indonesia's travel ban.
Hengky Ola Sura, Maumere – The East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) provincial administration has confirmed that 17 Timor Leste citizens evacuated from China had been quarantined in New Zealand after Bali turned down Dili's pleas for help.
Jakarta – Saudi Arabia will provide Rp 1.4 trillion (about US$102 million) to help empower farmers and fisherfolk through the establishment of a sharia-based digital payment platform to channel the funds.
Jakarta – Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) head Bahlil Lahadalia has offered potential investment opportunities in Indonesia's 10 new tourist destinations, dubbed the "10 New Balis", to the Australian government.
Eisya A. Eloksari, Jakarta – Indonesia needs to have an unemployment insurance scheme and clear regulations for per-hour employment to ensure workers' protection, an economist and a government official have said.
Jakarta – The Indonesian Biodiesel Producers Association (APROBI) has said it will start the trial use of 40 percent biodiesel (B40) fuel in March, as a follow-up to the successful implementation of 30 percent biodiesel (B30) fuel.
Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – Global solidarity movement One Billion Rising (OBR) has invited people worldwide – including in Indonesia – to celebrate the upcoming Valentine's Day by joining its call for an end to violence against women.
Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – Setara Institute for Democracy and Peace Deputy Chairperson Bonar Tigor Naipospos says that there is no urgency for the government to build a tunnel of friendship connecting the Istiqlal Mosque and the St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral in Central Jakarta.
Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The Indonesian government will speed up mutual works with the House of Representatives in the deliberations of the bill on personal data protection to make up for the very late move it has taken, a minister said in a recent interview.
Pacific Media Watch – The Australian government should break its silence and raise human rights violations in West Papua with visiting Indonesian President Joko Widodo today, says a Sydney-based advocacy group.
Widodo is expected to deliver an address to a joint sitting of Federal Parliament in Canberra.
Elaine Pearson – On 10 February, Indonesian President Joko Widodo ("Jokowi") will address Australia's parliament. Indonesia is often referred to as the democratic success story of Southeast Asia and a model of Muslim democracy, yet it has been responsible for significant backsliding on human rights in recent years.
Got a date for the upcoming Valentine's Day? Good for you. These youths in Indonesia say they don't... on principle.
James Massola, Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko Widodo's speech to the Australian Parliament on Monday was a direct challenge to Australia's political leaders, outlining four key areas where the two nations need to work more closely together.
Indonesia's President has used an historic address to Australia's Parliament to call for both countries to do more to address climate change and lower carbon emissions.
Joko Widodo delivered his speech in the official Indonesian language, Bahasa, describing Australia as Indonesia's closest friend.
Australia's government has been urged to discuss human rights abuses in West Papua with Indonesia's visiting president.
Jokowi, who is to address Australia's parliament in Canberra today, is expected to finalise an economic partnership agreement between the two countries.
Dianty Ningrum – As the world's fourth-biggest greenhouse gas emitter, Indonesia presents itself as a cooperative member of the global community to reduce greenhouse gases emission.
Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has expressed his hopes that the ratification of the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA) will also have a positive impact on the peoples of both countries in addition to strengthening bilateral ties.
Riska Rahman and Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – The country's tourist sector has taken a hit amid the novel coronavirus outbreak in China that has spread to other countries, as more trip and hotel booking cancellations have been reported following travel bans on tourists to and from China.
Gisela Swaragita, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has been urged to discuss human rights violations in West Papua during his visit with Australian government officials in Canberra.
Jokowi is in Australia this week on a bilateral visit.
Made Anthony Iswara, Jakarta – African swine fever, a disease previously blamed for the deaths of nearly a thousand pigs in Bali, is now being called unconfirmed, according to an official, backtracking from a previous confirmation.
Jakarta – Millennials, who make up nearly a quarter of Indonesia's population, are becoming an increasingly hot market for property developers and mortgage lenders.
Naufal Adam, 23, is a prime example. The corporate bank analyst has Rp 500 million (US$36,500) to put down as a deposit and plans to take out a five-year mortgage.
Colin Brown – Indonesian President Joko Widodo – Jokowi – has shown himself to be generally less interested in international affairs than his predecessor, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY). He has also been less committed to the Indonesia-Australia relationship.
Jakarta – Special Presidential Staff member for legal affairs, Dini Shanti Purwono, has denied a statement by human rights lawyer Veronica Koman who claimed that she handed over a document containing the names of Papuan political prisoners to President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo.
Jakarta – The Women's Movement Alliance held a silent protest against sexual violence on campus at the Ministry of Education and Culture in South Jakarta on Monday February 10.
Dwi Bowo Raharjo and Ria Rizki Nirmala Sari – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is holding bilateral talks during his visit to Australia on February 8-10.
Amnesty International Australia and human rights lawyer Veronica Koman took advantage of the visit to call on the Australian government to raise the human rights situation in West Papua with Widodo.
Dany Garjito and Rifan Aditya – Human Rights lawyer and activist Veronica Koman says that data on Papuan political prisoners (tapol) and the names of those who died as a result of military operations in Nduga was handed over to President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo during his visit to Canberra, Australia.
Apriadi Gunawan, Medan, North Sumatra – Hundreds of people staged a peaceful protest in front of the North Sumatra Legislative Council (DPRD) building in Medan on Monday, calling on President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to address the thousands of pig deaths caused by African swine fever (ASF) without culling the remaining, healthy animals.
Jakarta – Australia's Monash University will open a new campus in Jakarta this year, after becoming the first foreign university to acquire the Indonesian government's approval to make inroads in the country's higher education market, the university said in a statement on Monday.
The Indonesian president, Mr Joko Widodo is visiting Australia and is expected to deliver an address to a joint sitting of parliament in Canberra on Monday the 10th. He is in Australia to discuss/finalize the Indonesia-Australia comprehensive economic partnership agreement (IA-CEPA), which is in the final stage of ratification.
Jakarta – Amnesty International Australia and Indonesian human rights lawyer Veronica Koman have urged the Australian government to bring up the human rights situation in Papua and West Papua during President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's ongoing visit to Canberra.
Amnesty International Australia and Indonesian human rights lawyer Veronica Koman urge the Australian government to raise the human rights situation in West Papua during bilateral talks with Indonesian President Joko Widodo this week.
Aceh Besar – The Greater Aceh regency government in Aceh province has again banned people from celebrating Valentine's Day because it is deemed to conflict with Syariat Islam (Islamic law).
Jokowi said he made a point of attending the celebration despite being scheduled to leave for Canberra the same day.
Jakarta – Surabaya Mayor Tri "Risma" Rismaharini has retracted a police report she had filed against Zikria Dzatil, a homemaker in Bogor, West Java, for allegedly comparing her to a frog in a Facebook post.
The report was dropped on Friday after Zikria sent several apology letters to the mayor, said Surabaya administration legal head Ira Susilowati.
Jakarta – The press in Indonesia has long learned never to take its freedoms for granted. Although international watchdogs rate our press freedom as "partly free", media outlets and journalists appreciate their independence compared with colleagues such as in neighboring Thailand, where the les majeste law applies.
The areas of Indonesia where Dutch colonial rulers built a huge sugar-producing industry in the 1800s remain more economically productive today than other parts of the country, according to a study co-authored by an MIT economist.
The research, focused on the Indonesian island of Java, introduces new data into the study of the economic effects of colonialism.
Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – A study by a group of researchers at Harvard University has suggested that Indonesia should have confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus already, considering the high air travel volume from Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak in China, to the country.
Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – The Manpower Ministry has announced it will ask Indonesian migrant worker placement companies (P3MI) to stop placing workers in mainland China and will tighten screenings of future departures to Hong Kong and Taiwan amid the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – The Jakarta Post received two awards at the 2020 Indonesia Print Media Awards (IPMA) from the Union of Print Media Companies (SPS) in a National Press Day event in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, on Friday.
Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – An East Jakarta court ordered the government on Wednesday to grant financial compensation to victims of a bomb attack that occurred in a residential area of Sibolga, North Sumatra, in March 2019, a victim-protection agency has announced.
Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Almost a month after the first novel coronavirus case outside of China was confirmed in Thailand on Jan. 13 and amid the virus's subsequent spread to a number of other countries, Indonesia seems to remain free of the fast-spreading illness.
Jakarta – Walt Disney Co.'s Disney Conservation Fund (DCF) has named Indonesian woman, Ida Saparida, a hero of the environment in its 2019 list, among other environmentalists from 50 other countries who have devoted their lives to fostering conservation efforts in their communities.
Rebecca Ratcliffe – There is growing concern that the new coronavirus may be going undetected in Indonesia, where officials have not confirmed a single case of infection in the country of 272 million people which has close links to China.
Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Friday approved a proposal to build an underground tunnel connecting the Istiqlal Mosque, one of the country's landmarks in Central Jakarta, with its neighbor, the St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral.
James Massola, Jakarta – In the 10 years since Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono addressed a joint sitting of federal Parliament, relations between Australia and Indonesia have been to hell and back, several times.
Lukman Solihin – The 85 million children growing up in Indonesia are the first generation in the country's history to experience sustained economic growth.
Riska Rahman, Jakarta – The State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Ministry will close down or merge state-owned companies that have consistently failed to post profits as part of the government's restructuring of SEOs, Deputy SOE Minister Kartika "Tiko" Wirjoatmodjo said in Jakarta on Thursday.
Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The government's economic growth target in 2020 is unrealistic given last year's sluggish economic expansion and looming risks from the coronavirus outbreak, economists have said.
Jakarta – Terrorism emanating from the global extremist group Islamic State (IS) and the state of the world economy are the two biggest concerns among Indonesians, according to survey data on threat assessment released by Pew Research Center last year.