The countries made official an agreement reached last year, with Indonesia avoiding a higher tariff and committing to cooperate on export controls. By Alexandra Stevenson Reporting from Jakarta, ...

Indonesia is embarking on a plan to make toll roads across the country into emergency runways for its fighter jets, giving it the equivalent of multiple aircraft carriers across the vast archipelago.

Indonesia this week received three Rafale fighter jets from France, part of a multibillion-dollar purchase that is intended to upgrade its ageing air fleet. The three aircraft arrived in the country ...

When journalists or policy experts fretfully discuss arms racing and military buildups in the Indo-Pacific, they tend to focus on Northeast Asian autocracies rather than Southeast Asian democracies.

Indonesia inaugurated on Monday the upgraded Balikpapan refinery, which cost $7.4 billion to redevelop and is another step toward self-sufficiency in fuel supply. Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto ...

Indonesia’s fiscal deficit is likely to widen well beyond its legal limit this year as the government ramps up spending on its nationwide free meals program and the rebuilding of flood-hit provinces ...

A model of the KF-21 on display at Indo Defence 2025. (Janes/Ridzwan Rahmat) Indonesia's involvement in South Korea's KF-21 Boramae fighter programme looks set to deepen, with fresh indications that ...

Since banning raw nickel ore exports in 2020, Indonesia has mounted an aggressive push use its control over nickel resources to drive industrialisation. The government’s ‘downstreaming’ policy — known ...

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U.S. trade representative Jamieson Greer believes Indonesia is "backtracking" on several commitments it made: FT Indonesian officials reportedly are averse to agreeing to some binding commitments in ...

Hundreds of people have been killed and millions displaced as extreme weather has ravaged Southeast Asia this month. Indonesia’s heavy rain was linked to two tropical cyclones. By Jin Yu Young and ...

Indonesia’s chief economic minister Airlangga Hartato shakes hands with EU Commissioner for Trade Maroš Šefčovič in Brussels, Belgium, June 7, 2025. Credit: LinkedIn/Maroš Šefčovič Last month, the ...