social dynamics
Temporary closure of several roads in Jakarta on May 18th
The Jakarta Transportation Agency (JTA) will implement traffic works in the Senayan area and surrounding roads on May 18, 2025, due to the annual event "Digiland Run 2025" that will be held on that day at the GBK Stadium in Central Jakarta. The event is organized by the Indonesian...
Indonesia aggressively developing floating solar power projects
The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR) has said that the government is vigorously developing solar-based renewable energy with plans to expand from large-scale rooftop solar projects to floating solar projects. The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources' New Energy, Renewable Energy and Energy...
Jakarta office vacancy rate remains high
Jakarta's office vacancy rate has remained high and the phenomenon of "phantom office buildings" has persisted since the outbreak of the Xinguang epidemic, and has yet to return to normal. Real estate observers point out that the office and retail sectors remain under pressure, as companies are accustomed to being at home...
Prabowo plans to abolish labor outsourcing
President Prabowo will order the newly formed National Labor Welfare Committee, which is slated to be made up of domestic union leaders, to study ways to eliminate the labor outsourcing system. In his Labor Day speech in central Jakarta, he made it clear that hi...
Hong Kong, China Becomes Indonesia's Second Largest Source of Investment
Indonesia's investment realization in the first quarter of 2025 reached Rp 465.2 trillion, accounting for 24.41 TP3T of the annual target, an increase of 15.91 TP3T from the same period in 2024, creating 594,104 jobs. Singapore is the largest source of investment in Indonesia, with investment amounting to...
Europe invests in floating solar power plant in Indonesia
The Government of Indonesia and the international partners of the Partnership for a Just Energy Transition (PJET) have officially signed a definitive financing agreement for the Saguling Floating Solar Power Plant project. Key signatories include project developer PT Indo ACWA Tenaga Saguling...
Premier plans trip to Indonesia in late May
The Premier of the State Council plans to visit Indonesia in late May 2025, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi revealed at the first China-Indonesia 2+2 Ministerial Meeting. The visit comes in light of the Malaysian premier's assumption of the ASEAN chairmanship and the related...
Indonesia plans to start building nuclear power plants in 2030
The Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources said that the plan to build a nuclear power plant in 2030 or 2032 will be reported to the President. The nuclear power plant project is included in the Electricity Supply Enterprise Plan 2025-2034, which is currently in the finalization stage. He believes that nuclear power...
The first ministerial meeting of defense ministers and foreign ministers of India and China was held in Beijing.
At the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on April 18, Lin Jian announced that Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Foreign Minister, and Dong Jun, Minister of National Defense, will preside over the first ministerial meeting of the China-Indonesia Foreign Ministers and Defense Ministers' "2+2" dialogue mechanism on April 21 in Beijing,...
Indonesian industry worried about the influx of Chinese electronic products into the Indonesian market
Indonesia is expected to be flooded with imported electronics from China due to President Prabowo's plan to remove technical regulations in response to the US import tariff policy. The secretary-general of the Federation of Electronic Enterprises (FEE) expressed no concern about the U.S. import tariffs...