Jakarta hosts business forum on Indonesia's special economic zones
The Indonesia SEZ Business Forum 2025 was recently held in Jakarta under the theme "Driving Inclusive and Sustainable Growth", with the aim to promote inclusive and sustainable growth through the government, park developers, investors and strategic partners...
Indonesian Bird's Nest Exporter Plans to List on the Stock Exchange
Bird's nest exporter PT Abadi Lestari Indonesia Tbk.(RLCO) will be listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI). Its initial public offering (IPO) was priced at Rp 168 per share, with 625 million shares issued, raising a total of 1...
Indonesia restricts imports of unlabeled screened Chinese goods
The Indonesian government says the move to clean up imported goods goes beyond cracking down on the second-hand clothing trade and will also target the influx of new goods into the domestic market. The Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises revealed that the government is preparing to restrict unlabeled, lack of proper regulation in...
AKRA sells another 20 hectares of land Chinese chemical company takes over
Indonesia's AKR Corporindo (AKRA), through its subsidiary PT Berkah Kawasan Manyar Sejahtera (BKMS), has sold to Sichuan Jinxiang Chemical, which is located in the Gresik Integrated Industrial and Port Special Economic Zone (JIIPE) in East Java, to...
Deli Stationery Invests $150 Million in Indonesia Plant
Stationery giant Deli built a factory in Karawang District, West Java Province, Indonesia, looking like a Chinese company has built a factory overseas, in fact, Chinese consumer brands in ASEAN to change the way to play - from the previous "made in China and shipped over to sell," into the "When...
CPPCC Chairman pays official friendship visit to Indonesia
On December 3-4, 2025 local time, at the invitation of Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly Chairman Muzani, Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Wang Huning paid an official friendship visit to Indonesia, meeting separately in Jakarta with President Prabowo, Speaker of the National Assembly Bu...
Indonesia's finance minister plans to travel to China to discuss high-speed rail debt
The Finance Minister recently met with the Chief Executive Officer of the Board of Investment (BPI) to discuss, among other things, the debt solution for the Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Rail (KCIC) project, known as the Whoosh project, a meeting that comes at a time when the government is trying to finalize the project's financing...
President Prabowo meets with the Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)
Indonesian President Prabowo met with visiting Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Wang Huning at the Independence Palace in Jakarta on Thursday afternoon. Wang Huning arrived at the Independence Palace at 11:35 a.m. local time, accompanied by a delegation and led by mo...
Indonesia Introduces Electronic Certificate of Origin to Prevent Illegal Imports
The Indonesian National Single Window Agency (LNSW) confirms that the INSW system it operates is effective in preventing illegal imports, with the key initiative being the digitization of certificates of origin - known as electronic certificates of origin (e - COO) - through electronic data interchange...
Indonesia plans to cut coal output next year to maintain prices
The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources ESDM, the world's leading coal exporter, has decided to prevent a fall in international coal prices by cutting production next year. The Director General of the General Directorate of Mines and Coal recently explained at the Parliament House that after preliminary calculations, next year's coal production...