SINGAPORE (Reuters) -China’s coal imports from Russia rose in August, exceeding last month’s level and hitting the highest in at least five years, as power utilities in the world’s biggest…
By Anant Chandak BENGALURU (Reuters) – Bank Indonesia will follow a surprise August interest rate rise with another 25 basis point hike at its meeting on Thursday, still moving more…
JAKARTA (Reuters) -About 200 people evacuated to higher ground after an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck islands in western Indonesia on Sunday, causing some property damage, the country’s disaster mitigation…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s financial regulator plans to extend regulations for loan forbearance for some sectors that have yet to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic beyond a…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s inflation rate for 2022 is seen at a range of 6.6% to 6.8% following a 30% increase in subsidised fuel prices over the weekend, a finance…
By Stefanno Sulaiman and Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s inflation rate eased more than expected in August, official data showed on Thursday, but economists said the rate is set…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s economic growth this quarter is expected to be higher than the 5.44% rate in Q2, even with a potential fuel price hike, a senior cabinet minister…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s parliament on Tuesday passed a law cementing the country’s membership of the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), making it the latest Southeast Asian nation to…
By Anant Chandak BENGALURU (Reuters) – Bank Indonesia (BI) is expected to leave its policy rate unchanged at record lows on Tuesday, a small majority of economists estimate in a…
JAKARTA – Indonesia’s trade surplus may have narrowed to $3.93 billion last month due to weakening export performance as global trade activity slows, according to economists polled by Reuters. Southeast…
JAKARTA -Indonesia’s foreign exchange reserves fell the most in a month since the start of the pandemic, Bank Indonesia (BI) data showed on Friday, as the central bank pledged to…
JAKARTA – Indonesia temporarily opened access to online payment firm PayPal to allow users to access their money, a senior official said on Sunday, after the country’s blocking of some…
BEIJING – China and Indonesia will enhance the scale of bilateral trade and further expand cooperation in areas including agriculture and food security, the Chinese foreign ministry said after a…
By Gayatri Suroyo and Stefanno Sulaiman JAKARTA – Indonesia’s central bank said a plan to sell billions of dollars worth of bonds bought during the pandemic would be conducted carefully,…
JAKARTA – Indonesia has launched a crackdown on peer-to-peer (P2P) lenders through a new regulation and capital requirements, in a move that industry sources say should help clean up a…
JAKARTA – Nickel miner Vale Indonesia, China’s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt and U.S. car maker Ford Motor signed a non-binding memorandum of cooperation to build a plant in Indonesia to extract…
By Gayatri Suroyo and Fransiska Nangoy JAKARTA – Indonesia’s central bank left its policy interest rate unchanged at a record low on Thursday but said it would lift yields on…
NUSA DUA, Indonesia – Indonesia central bank governor Perry Warjiyo on Saturday urged G20 members to remain focused on goals as the finance chiefs’ meeting in Bali remained overshadowed by…
JAKARTA – Indonesia’s trade surplus likely widened to $3.52 billion last month, boosted by the lifting of a three-week palm oil export ban, according to economists polled by Reuters, although…
JAKARTA – China’s Silk Road Fund (SRF) has signed an agreement to invest up to 20 billion yuan ($2.99 billion) in Indonesia’s sovereign wealth fund, the funds said on Monday,…
JAKARTA – Garuda Indonesia has halved its debt and achieved comparable cuts to aircraft leasing costs in negotiations that have set the airline up for profitability, the Indonesian government said…
By Gayatri Suroyo and Stefanno Sulaiman JAKARTA – Indonesia’s central bank left interest rates at a record low on Thursday, saying it was monitoring risks from rising inflation while downplaying…
By Arsh Tushar Mogre and Shaloo Shrivastava BENGALURU -Bank Indonesia will leave its key interest rate steady at 3.50% on Thursday but over one-quarter of economists in a Reuters poll…
By 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 city-state scrambles to…
By Stefanno Sulaiman JAKARTA – Indonesia Trade Minister Muhammad Lutfi said on Tuesday the government would bring down its combined maximum crude palm oil export and levy rate to $488…