Vietnam Airlines launches Ho Chi Minh City-Bali direct air route
Economy 14:03 02/06/2025Vietnam Airlines on Sunday officially launched a direct air route between Ho Chi Minh City and Bali, Indonesia with a frequency of four flights per week, which will increase to seven flights per week starting July.
Search continues for Indonesia quarry collapse victims, death toll at 17
World 14:40 01/06/2025Indonesian authorities will continue searching on Sunday for eight people trapped in a rock collapse at a quarry in West Java, where the death toll has reached 17 with six injured, the search and rescue agency Basarnas said.
Nickel rush for stainless steel, EVs guts Indonesia tribe's forest home
World 11:33 29/05/2025Lelilef Sawai -- Sitting deep in east Indonesia's lush jungle, Bokum, one of the country's last isolated hunter-gatherers, has a simple message for the nickel miners threatening his home: "This is our land."
Landslide at gold mine in Indonesia's Papua kills six; 14 missing
World 15:41 19/05/2025Torrential rains forced a halt on Monday to Indonesia's search for 14 missing in its easternmost region of Papua after a landslide killed six workers at a gold mine and injured four, officials said.
Indonesia raises alert to highest level for Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano
World 11:02 19/05/2025Indonesia raised the alert level of Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki to the highest after it erupted eight times over the weekend, its volcanology agency has said.
Climate change takes spice from Indonesia clove farms
World 09:30 04/05/2025Colonial powers once sought to wipe out cloves grown by locals on the eastern Indonesian island of Ternate to safeguard their monopoly over the prized crop. Today farmers say the gravest threat to their plants is climate change.
Indonesia books larger-than-expected $4.3bn trade surplus in March
World 17:13 21/04/2025JAKARTA -- Indonesia reported on Monday a $4.33 billion trade surplus in March, more than expected and the widest in four months as shipments beat estimates on strong palm oil and nickel exports as well as a rush to beat the start date for U.S. tariffs.
Indonesian woman turns to mangroves to fend off rising tides
World 17:57 19/04/2025DEMAK, Indonesia -- Pasijah, a 55-year-old housewife in Indonesia's Central Java Province, wakes up every morning to the sound of the sea. If that sounds idyllic, it is anything but.
Indonesia arrests judges who cleared palm oil companies of graft charges
World 14:52 14/04/2025JAKARTA -- Indonesian authorities arrested three judges who acquitted three palm oil companies of charges of corruption in obtaining export permits, an official said on Monday, following the arrest of a local court's chief judge on bribery charges in the same matter.
Indonesia palm oil firms eye new markets as US trade war casts shadow
World 10:22 14/04/2025Indonesian palm oil companies are seeking new markets in Europe, Africa and the Middle East as they try to protect themselves from the impact of Donald Trump's trade war, a top industry executive told AFP.
Indonesia's horror movie industry rises from the grave
World 14:59 13/04/2025Crunching popcorn and screaming, Indonesians are flocking to watch homegrown horror films in cinemas that draw on the country's penchant for ghost and monster stories.
Vietnam FM Bui Thanh Son enjoys 'pho,' walks with Indonesian counterpart in Hanoi
Vietnam News 21:14 24/04/2024This is not the first time that Minister Son has invited a foreign counterpart to have breakfast and take a stroll in the Vietnamese capital
