Category: Indonesia
Australians question how aid money is being spent in Indonesia after shift to ‘aid investment’
Australia pledged $5.5 million in relief aid to Indonesia earlier this month in the wake of an earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 2,000 people and displaced [...]
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Indonesia targets closure of Freeport deal in December ‘official
Indonesia’s state-owned miner Inalum is looking to finalise a $3.85 deal for majority control of the local unit of global mining giant Freeport McMoRan Inc in December, [...]
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Indonesia ICDX halts trading of tin, ore with origin verified by Surveyor Indonesia ‘circular
* Indonesia Commodity & Derivatives Exchange (ICDX) has suspended trading of tin ingots and tin ore with origin verified by PT. Surveyor Indonesia, the exchange said in a [...]
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Indonesia raids home of Lippo Group’s deputy chair in bribery probe
Indonesia’s anti-graft agency said on Thursday it had raided 10 locations, including the home of the deputy chair of the Lippo Group, as part of a bribery investigation [...]
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Telkomsel Selects Kinetica to Revolutionize Fast Online Analytical Processing
Indonesia’s largest telecommunications company Telkomsel has selected Kinetica to help drive its move toward the Extreme Data Economy. With Kinetica’s converged engine [...]
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PM insists Indonesia trade deal ‘on track’ despite Jerusalem embassy tensions
Prime minister Scott Morrison has seized on public comments from Indonesia’s trade minister, insisting the pending free-trade agreement is still “on track”. [...]
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$90k worth of Singapore currency seized in Indonesia’s latest corruption raid
Indonesia’s anti-graft agency KPK has confiscated almost S$140,000 in cashincluding Singapore currencywhich it suspects that a property company was using to bribe local [...]
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Indonesians seek talismans of former lives in quake rubble
Wooden beams tilted at crazy angles poke out of piles of shattered concrete littered with battered motorbikes and household items, from crumpled pots and pans to smudged [...]
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Australia insists trade agreement with Indonesia on track despite Israel comments
Australian prime minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday a billion-dollar free trade agreement with Indonesia will be signed this year despite a furious reaction to [...]
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Indonesia-Australia Defense Ties in Focus With ministerial Meeting
A recent engagement spotlighted the security aspect of ties between the two sides. Last week, Indonesia and Australia held a defense ministers’ meeting. The [...]
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In Indonesia, transgender women find haven in Islamic boarding school
Shinta Ratri, the matron of an Indonesian Islamic boarding school, corrects the pronunciation of a group of fellow Muslims as they chant the phrase “only one God” [...]
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Indonesia FTA in doubt as Labour tightens trade rules
The free trade agreement between Australia and Indonesia is in peril after Labour said it would not ratify the deal, or any other FTA in the pipeline, unless provisions [...]
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World Bank provides $1 billion standby facility for Indonesia disaster relief
The World Bank on Sunday (October 14) said it would provide a standby loan of up to $1 billion for the Indonesian government for relief and reconstruction efforts in the [...]
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu wants ‘excellent relations’ with Indonesia
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told a Christian conference he wants to promote diplomatic relations with Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim [...]
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Indonesia allows M’sian groups to help Sulawesi quake victims
Malaysian aid agencies have made known that their relief efforts for Sulawesi quake victims are not disrupted by Indonesian rules on foreign volunteers. This came about [...]
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