With President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr scheduled to visit the neighboring countries of Singapore and Indonesia in September, Indonesia ambassador to the Philippines Agus Widjojo

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Tuesday admitted that he struggled to get Russian leader Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Jakarta – Indonesia booked a higher current account surplus in the second quarter this year thanks to strong commodities exports performance, providing the country with much-needed supp

Jakarta (Reuters) – Indonesia's windfall export earnings thanks to high commodity prices may start dwindling, its statistics bureau warned on Monday, despite the country booking a large

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The Central Statistics Agency or BPS announced on Monday that international trade booked a surplus of $4.23 billion in July, marking the 27th consecutive m

Singapore – Timor-Leste's president Jose Ramos-Horta recently declared his hope that his country would become the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (ASEAN) eleventh member in 2023

Jakarta – The Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry has summoned the Ukrainian Ambassador in Jakarta to express "displeasure" after the latter allegedly criticized Jakarta for lack of con

Xirui Li, NTU – Cross-border data flows have been a priority on the G20 agenda since 2019. This year is no exception.

Chris Barrett, Singapore – Australia and Indonesia can build much-needed trust by deepening trade and investment ties that have for too long been underdeveloped, according to one of the

Luke Hunt – Expectations that Timor-Leste would be shepherded into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) this year by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen have been formally da

Luke Hunt, Phnom Penh – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Aug 3 that he was confident Timor-Leste would become the 11th member of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)

Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore – Indonesia warns that the sharing of nuclear technology to power submarines could heighten the risk of new types of weapons of mass destruct

Riani Sanusi Putri, Jakarta – Commercial Director of state-owned steel maker Krakatau Steel, Melati Sarnita, responded to issues about illegal steel imports brought up by Trade Minister

Dion Bisara, Jakarta – China has unveiled a commitment to increase its crude palm oil import from Indonesia by 1 million metric tons, or about a fifth of its annual imports, in a move t

Agencies, Tokyo, Japan – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Wednesday he and President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo had agreed during talks to cooperate in a variety of fields, inclu

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Palm oil prices will weaken further in the short term due to softer demand and "distress selling" by top producer Indonesia, commodities consultancy LMC Interna

Primus Dorimulu, Jakarta – Garibaldi "Boy" Thohir, the president director of Indonesia's second-largest listed coal miner Adaro Energy, has become the chairman of the China Committee at

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Timor Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta on Thursday talked about how arduous it is to get a seat in ASEAN and even said that entering heaven would be easier

Jakarta – Timor Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta said on Tuesday during a visit to Indonesia that he hoped to boost trade ties between the countries and seal a decades-long bid by his n

Jakarta – Indonesia has scrapped its export levy for all palm oil products until Aug.

Gayatri Suroyo and Bernadette Christina, Jakarta – Indonesia booked a larger-than-expected trade surplus of $5.09 billion in June, as palm oil exports surged after the lifting of an exp

Jakarta (VNA) – Timor-Leste has reiterated its readiness to become a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) while working with the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (

Bali – Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said all her counterparts from G20 countries were present in person during the two-day meeting in Bali, although Russia's Sergei Lavrov

Ian Storey – Indonesia President Joko Widodo's visit to Ukraine and Russia was quite remarkable.

Clara Ferreira Marques, Singapore – Indonesian President Joko Widodo visited Kyiv and Moscow last week, offering to be a diplomatic bridge between the two.

Jakarta (Reuters) – Indonesia proposed raising palm oil export quotas on Friday (July 1) and is considering increasing mandatory levels of biodiesel in fuel mixes to prop up prices for

Moscow – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo ended a trip to Ukraine and Russia saying he hoped for progress reintegrating global food and fertilizer supply lines disrupted by the conflict,

Kyiv, Ukraine – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo offered on Wednesday to deliver a message from Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky to Russian leader Vladimir Putin to try to boost peac

Singapore – Singapore will soon be able to receive chicken from Indonesia.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Wednesday had a tete-a-tete with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Mariinsky Pal

Sebastian Strangio – The Indonesian government has confirmed earlier reports that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo will pay visits to Ukraine and Russia next week to push for a resolution

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, the current chair of the G20 is due to visit Moscow later this month to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indonesia's state new

Chen Lin and Bernadette Christina, Singapore/Jakarta – Indonesian authorities hope to reach an agreement with Singapore to start exporting chickens within weeks, officials said, as the

Hipolitus Wangge, ANU – Prime Minister James Marape visited Jakarta at the invitation of Indonesian President Joko Widodo in March 2022 – a few months ahead of PNG's national elections.

Parker Novak – China and Australia's duelling Pacific tours make final stops. East Timor deals cap Chinese foreign minister's 10-day Pacific blitz.

Radityo Dharmaputra – Almost 120 days have passed since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the war continues to have ripple effects across the world.

Jemma Purdey – When President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo invited new Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to join him on a leisurely bicycle ride through the grounds of the Bogor Presid

Jakarta – Indonesia's trade surplus widened to $2.90 billion last month from $2.70 billion in the same month a year ago, despite the country's palm oil export embargo, keeping the balan

Joao da Cruz Cardoso – On May 20, Timor-Leste commemorated the 20th anniversary of its independence and celebrated the inauguration of its newly elected president Jose Ramos-Horta, who

Jakarta – Indonesia's trade surplus likely shrank significantly in May because of a drop in exports after the government banned shipments of palm oil products, while imports were seen r

Antara, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan has affirmed Indonesia's commitment to strengthening bilateral relations with Russia.

Magdalene Fung, Singapore – Indonesia's Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto on Saturday (June 11) stressed Asian nations' prerogative to use their own brand of diplomacy to resolve the ge

Jakarta – Indonesia is further easing rules to allow more companies to export palm oil, an official said on Friday, aiming to ease bottlenecks and swelling inventories caused by an expo

Hariz Baharudin, Singapore – Singapore and Indonesia are not just close neighbours, but have also contributed to decades of peace and stability in the region by working together and mai

President of Timor-Leste Jose Ramos-Horta and visiting Foreign Minister Wang Yi have expressed common willingness to strengthen regional cooperation and safeguard multilateralism.

Tim Harcourt, Sydney, Australia – Indonesia may be the world's fourth most populous nation – with more than 270 million people – but Australian news coverage of it typically involves th

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was in Indonesia on Monday to meet its President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and shore-up relations between the two neighbors, i

Jakarta – For at least 10 days after President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo lifted the palm oil export ban on May 23, not a single shipment of the commodity left port as a result of the entirel

Katharine Murphy – Anthony Albanese says Australia's economic relationship with Indonesia has "struggled to keep pace" with the country's "extraordinary economic rise" but the new gover

Tim Lindsey and Tim Mann, Melbourne, Australia – A new Australian prime minister flying to Indonesia to "reset" relations is now so routine it would probably raise hackles in Jakarta if