Indonesia, Boarding School
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Indonesian rescue teams are frantically searching for scores of young students buried for two days under concrete rubble after their Islamic boarding school collapsed on them during afternoon prayers.
Willingness to finance sovereign wealth fund for low returns seen as show of support for President Prabowo Subianto
The land that villager Senum once called home has been swallowed by Indonesia's MotoGP circuit, part of a mega tourism project accused of forced evictions and rights abuses.He says he was promised 10 million rupiah ($600) for land that became part of the MotoGP track,
MotoGP racer Alex Marquez views Indonesia as one of the largest and most crucial markets for the world's most prestigious motorcycle racing event.
Indonesia’s new finance minister said he would not consider easing long-standing fiscal restraints until he could prove that Southeast Asia’s largest economy could grow faster by spending more efficiently.
A clip of women dressed in niqabs has spread widely in Chinese-language social media posts, with some users falsely claiming it shows a street scene in London. In fact, the footage was taken in Indonesia outside a women's boarding school.
Mr Prabowo was featured in billboard advertisements promoting a peace plan to end the war in Gaza. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
US miner Freeport-McMoRan Inc. has agreed to divest a 12% share in its Indonesian unit to the government for free, CNBC Indonesia reported, citing the head of the country’s Danantara sovereign wealth fund Rosan Roeslani.