Indonesia is one of the most important ‘swing states’ in the US-China rivalry and, with a change of government on the way, it appears to be inching towards stronger ties with the West.
Prabowo Subianto has vowed to continue the turbocharged industry development backed by Chinese investment that has flooded the world with cheap nickel.
Labor activists, workers and students are demanding a reversal of an economic policy that the government says is necessary but remains deeply unpopular.
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine helped push global agricultural prices to soaring heights, some Asian governments restricted the export of products they viewed as essential to domestic food security.
JAKARTA A surge in coal prices is driving a wave of bank loans to miners in Indonesia, the world’s fifth-largest coal producer and top exporter. By continuing to finance the fossil fuel industry, banks like Citigroup, BNP Paribas and Standard Chartered are making it harder for Indonesia to transition to clean, renewable energy, analysts […]