Graeme Dobell – The word 'guarantee' rightly makes Oz politicians, diplomats and lawyers cautious, even nervous: never say forever, never say never, and try never to provoke Indonesia.

Daniel Fitzgerald – The Indonesian Government is reportedly looking to Mexico as an alternate source of live cattle, after Australian cattle hit record prices and Jakarta meat sellers g

Arip Tirta and Prasanti W. Sarli – Pak Iyus is a hijab producer in Bandung, Indonesia.

Novy Lumanauw, Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo congratulates 46th US President Joe Biden and his vice president Kamala Harris for thei

Gilang Al Ghifari Lukman – Recent reports of potential normalisation between Indonesia and Israel have received varied reactions in the respective countries.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Building resilient national health security and strengthening ties for economic recovery are among Indonesia's five diplomatic priorities in 2021, accordin

Friski Riana, Ahmad Faiz, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) board members had called for the Indonesian government to assert its support for Palestine following reports of th

David Engel – Of all the countries that the new US administration might wish to nudge its way as it tackles the implications of Beijing's power and ambitions, very few matter more strat

Ron Kampeas – A top Trump administration official wants to leverage development aid to have Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority nation, recognize Israel.

Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Jakarta – Indonesia has kept its trade balance in the black for the seventh month in November, posting a $2.62 billion surplus thanks to improving coal and palm o

Jayanty Nada Shofa & Natasha Christy Wahyuni, Jakarta – Foreign Affairs Ministry's spokesman Teuku Faizasyah denies Israeli media claims of Indonesia seeking to normalize diplomatic

Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat Habib Pashya – For all the quandaries thrown up by 2020, this has been an important year for Indonesia-China relations.

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The government on Friday released a shipment of exports worth US$1.64 billion by 133 large and small businesses to seek alternative markets and to rev

Jakarta – Indonesia has lodged a formal protest with Britain after a UK-based separatist leader announced an interim government-in-exile for the restive Papua province.

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – The People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Speaker Bambang Soesatyo asked the government through the Foreign Affairs Minister to summon the British Ambassa

Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi has summoned the British Ambassador in Jakarta, Owen Jenkins, regarding the declaration of an independent Papua on 1stDecember 2020 that was echoe

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Upon returning home from Washington, DC, Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Pandjaitan waxed poetic about his recent meeting with

Bogor, West Java. Indonesia will hold the G20 presidency in 2022, a year earlier than arranged, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi has said.

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesia and the United States signed on Wednesday a US$750 million agreement to finance trade and infrastructure projects as the countries seek to streng

Caesar Akbar, Jakarta – Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi on Thursday's virtual seminar asserted that Indonesia will continue to fight the palm oil discrimination which she suggest

Indonesia's Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Pandjaitan met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, with the senior member of President Jok

Eva Fitriani, Jakarta – The European Commission has terminated an anti-dumping probe into hot-rolled stainless steel from Indonesia after the European steel lobby withdrew their complai

Novy Lumanauw, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan has met with US President Donald Trump to express appreciation and gratitude f

Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Maritime and Investment Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan met with representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) a

Roland Rajah – Australia is lending A$1.5 billion to Indonesia to help it get through the economic crisis unleashed by Covid-19.

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Australia has signed a AU$1.5 billion (US$1 billion) loan deal with Indonesia to help it fight the coronavirus pandemic, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indra

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – Indonesia aims to double the value of business deals to be made during this year's business forum with Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The government has joined the other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in signing an agreement on relaxing non-tariff measu

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – 2020 marks the 65th anniversary of Indonesia-Poland diplomatic relations, with ties extending across the economic, security, and political sphere.

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has congratulated United States president-elect Joe Biden and his vice president Kamala Harris on their recent electoral vic

Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – An economist with the Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (Indef), Bhima Yudhistira Adhinegara, on Thursday said that Indonesian palm

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Indonesia stands to benefit from trade with the United States, regardless of who wins the US 2020 presidential election, as the total exports and imports t

Norman Harsono and Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesian coal mining firms expect global coal demand to recover in mid-2021 as economies around the world heal from COVID-19, even tho

Dian Septiari, Jakarta – Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi announced on Sunday that Indonesia has retained its status as a beneficiary of the United States' Generalized System of Prefer

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has condemned a statement made by French President Emmanuel Macron on Islam, calling it insulting and offensive to Muslims the wo

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – Indonesia is seeing a steep decline in textile exports to Turkey – a major market for textile products – blamed on additional duties and the coronavir

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – Indonesia has invited the United States to invest in the development of Riau Islands' Natuna regency, one of the archipelago's outer islands in the south

James Massola and Karuni Rompies – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has heaped praise on Indonesia for taking "decisive action to safeguard its maritime sovereignty" over the Natuna Is

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – The United States has praised the Indonesian government's effort in addressing the issues of regulatory roadblocks, corruption and nontransparency in the

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Syaiful Hakim, Fardah, Jakarta – Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, Mahfud MD, and Australia's Minister of Home Affairs, Peter Dutton, stressed

Nina Loasana, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo swore in 12 new ambassadors at the State Palace on Monday under strict health protocols.

Dian Septiari, Jakarta – Amid the increasingly aggressive rivalry between the United States and China, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's planned visit to Jakarta next week may further

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Indonesia has rejected a proposal by the United States to allow its P-8 Poseidon maritime surveillance planes to land and refuel there, according to four senior In

Jakarta – The United Arab Emirates has changed the name of a main street in Abu Dhabi to "President Joko Widodo Street" to honor the Indonesian President for "strengthening the bilatera

Aristyo Rizka Darmawan – Having been barred for more than 20 years from entering the United States, Indonesia's Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto was welcomed to Washington last week af

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Indonesian ambassador to Singapore Suryopratomo said Thursday his office had received questions from Singaporeans why the newly-adopted job creation law ai

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesia booked its highest exports in six months, driven by rising shipments of agricultural and manufactured goods in September, Statistics Indonesia (B

Singapore – Singapore and Indonesia have agreed to reopen borders between the two countries for essential business and official travel after they were shut to curb the spread of COVID-1

Geneva, Switzerland – Impoverished Southeast Asian country East Timor on Friday, October 2, kicked off official accession talks to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Geneva-ba