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| 19.12.2025 | Vinfast Honored in Indonesia with Kumparan Awards: Impact Makers 2025 | JAKARTA, INDONESIA – Media OutReach Newswire – 19 December 2025 – At the Kumparan Awards: Impact Makers 2025, organized by leading digital media platform Kumparan, VinFast was honored with the award “Impactful Transformation in the EV Ecosy... |
| 10.12.2025 | 'Near-death experience': Survivors of Jakarta workplace blaze recall panicked, 'terrifying' escape | Listen
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| 07.11.2025 | Explosion at mosque in Jakarta injures 55 people, teen suspect identified | JAKARTA: Two blasts at a school mosque in the Indonesian capital Jakarta injured at least 50 people on Friday (Nov 7), authorities said, with a student accused of being responsible for the incident.
The explosions took place at a North Jaka... |
| 15.05.2025 | ‘Not body-shaming’: Indonesia’s Health Minister defends controversial viral remarks over men’s jean size | JAKARTA: Indonesia’s Health Minister has defended his controversial comments calling men with a jeans size of 33 inches or more “definitely obese” and “more likely to meet God sooner.”
Budi Gunadi Sadikin’s remarks drew a wave of criticism ... |
| 28.04.2025 | The VC legal arsenal to combat entrepreneurial fraud | Insights
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Wilson Ang · 7h ago · 6 min readThe VC legal arsenal to combat entrepreneurial fr... |
| 14.04.2025 | Southeast Asia’s tariff tango | EcommerceNewsletters
Jofie Yordan · 47m ago · 4 min readSoutheast Asia’s tariff tango
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| 14.12.2024 | Indonesia's Free Meal Program: A Recipe for Growth or a Recipe for Disaster? | Indonesia is stirring the pot with a bold initiative. On January 2, 2025, the government will launch a free meal program aimed at feeding 19.5 million schoolchildren and expectant mothers. This ambitious plan comes with a hefty price tag of... |
| 14.12.2024 | Doctor Anywhere's Workforce Reduction: A Strategic Shift in Telehealth | In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, change is the only constant. Doctor Anywhere, a prominent telehealth provider in Southeast Asia, recently announced a significant workforce reduction. The company has trimmed its staff by 8.1%, ... |
| 10.12.2024 | Doctor Anywhere trims 8.1% workforce across Southeast Asia (update) | Premium Content
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Renald Yeo · 12h ago · 2 min readDoctor Anywhere trims 8.1% workforce across Southe... |
| 10.12.2024 | Indonesia’s new meal program serves questions for alt-meat firms | Premium Content
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Glenn Kaonang · 2d ago · 5 min readIndonesia’s new meal program serves questions fo... |
| 09.12.2024 | Can startups nurture Indonesia’s overlooked daycare market? | Premium Content
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Glenn Kaonang · 2d ago · 5 min readCan startups nurture Indonesia’s overlooked dayc... |
| 09.10.2024 | Indonesia President-elect Prabowo promises higher salaries, improved benefits for judges amid nationwide strike | JAKARTA: Indonesia President-Elect Prabowo Subianto has promised to address the long-standing issues of judges' stagnant salaries and welfare amid a nationwide strike pushing for higher wages.
Mr Prabowo has pledged improvements to their pa... |
| 23.01.2024 | Did the CEO of Indonesian startup Octopus graduate from UC Berkeley? | Premium Content
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Gabriel Budi Sutrisno · 2d ago · 7 min readDid the CEO of Indonesian startup Octopu... |
| 02.10.2023 | GoTo Group secures $150m from IFC to boost sustainability efforts | GreentechInvestmentsNews
Miguel Cordon · 3 Oct 2023 · 2 min readGoTo Group secures $150m from IFC to boost sustainability efforts
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Indonesia’s GoTo Group has formed a partnership with the International Finance Corpor... |
| 20.09.2023 | Offsetting coal plant emissions will be vital for Indonesia’s energy transition | A USD 20 billion climate financing deal between Indonesia and a group of industrialized nations led by the US and Japan has hit a snag due to captive coal-fired power plants. Indonesia was supposed to launch an investment plan on August 16 ... |
| 22.06.2023 | Concerns Amid JETP Funding for Indonesia in Climate Change Mitigation | New financing arrangements to encourage green energy growth will help Indonesia facilitate the transition from coal to renewables. But concerns arise around loan instruments and interest payment conditions.
The Just Energy Transition Partne... |
| 08.01.2023 | A disused Boeing 737 is being turned into a luxury villa in Bali. Take a look. | The disused 737 has become a tourist attraction in Bali. Sonny Tumbelaka/Getty Images
Entrepreneur Felix Demin bought the disused aircraft in 2021 and had it put at the top of a cliff.
He's converting the Boeing 737 into a two-bedroom villa... |
| 19.09.2022 | Shopee is Reportedly Laying Off 3% of its Workforce in Indonesia | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 19 September 2022, 04:09 pm
Sea Limited, Shopee's parent company, is reportedly laying off some workers in Indonesia, as well as in China and Singapore as it faces challenges in the market.
According to the reports,... |
| 29.07.2022 | As inflation bites, Indonesia’s warungs and low-income workers may have most to lose | Premium Content
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Aditya Hadi Pratama · 1d ago · 5 min readAs inflation bites, Indonesia’s warungs an... |
| 29.04.2022 | Is Southeast Asia Entering Its Golden Age of Fintech? | Despite limited access to traditional banking services, rising smartphone penetration and rapid e-commerce growth have led to an increase in the use of digital financial services in Southeast Asia. Today, the region is emerging as a hotspot... |
| 18.10.2021 | Podkesmas Asia Network Brings Indonesian Podcasts to the Global Stage Collaborating with Spotify | JAKARTA, Indonesia, Oct. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Indonesia's biggest podcast network, Podkesmas Asia Network (PAN), unveils new audio cinema series, a collaboration with popular streaming platform, Spotify. Already a chart-topper in their ... |
| 13.04.2021 | Anger boils in Indonesia as Shopee allegedly underpays its couriers | Sea Group’s e-commerce platform Shopee is facing allegations of underpaying its Indonesian couriers, as some drivers claim that their pay per delivered package was reduced.
The information was first shared on Twitter, showing a chat between... |
| 27.03.2021 | ‘I lost my bike and could barely afford my three meals’—how the virus hit Indonesia’s gig drivers | Tech in Culture | Novan Arif was working as a customer service agent at Indomaret, one of Indonesian largest convenience store chains, in 2016 when he heard about a promising new job opportunity—becoming a driving partner for a ride-hailing platform.
Uber, G... |
| 11.02.2021 | Indonesian ride-hailing drivers to receive vaccines in March | Indonesia is rolling out its vaccination program since January, with frontline workers in healthcare and public services among the first recipients. The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) earlier this week announced that ride-hailing drivers wil... |
| 17.11.2020 | Indonesian Lawmakers Are Trying Really Hard to Ban Alcohol (Again) | Conservative lawmakers in Muslim-majority Indonesia have renewed efforts to pass a sweeping alcohol ban that could see drinkers jailed for up to three years, but the proposal has faced widespread backlash as the country tries to turbocharge... |
| 06.10.2020 | The Pandemic Has Made Life Worse for Rohingya Refugees in Indonesia | After seven years living as a Rohingya refugee in Indonesia, 23-year-old Arfat has realized he can only rely on himself.
He fled persecution in Myanmar at the age of 16, spent two years sleeping next to a cold wall in immigration detention,... |
| 28.08.2020 | In Indonesia, an ongoing judicial review could change the future of streaming | Regulators often struggle to keep up with the speed of technological change. Two Indonesian television channels, Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia (RCTI) and iNews TV asked the Supreme Court for a judicial review of the country’s broadcasti... |
| 15.07.2020 | Indonesian Family Forces 12-Year-Old Girl to Marry 45-Year-Old Man to ‘Repay a Favor’ | A 12-year-old girl from Banyuwangi, in the Indonesian province of East Java, was recently forced by her adoptive parents to marry a 45-year-old man in a traditional ceremony in order to “repay a favor.”
The man, who already has three other ... |
| 20.04.2020 | Streaming Site Nites.TV Gets ‘Seized’ After Going Viral, But Questions Remain | Every month new pirate sites appear online, hoping to be the next big thing. Many fall by the wayside, having fizzled out in what is already an extremely crowded marketplace.
To gain traction, sites need to offer something different, either... |
| 05.04.2019 | Amazon Cloud strengthens its presence in Indonesia | Cloud computing service provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) will build its first so-called “cloud region” in Jakarta. It’s meant to be up and running by the end of 2021.
As the use of cloud computing services in Indonesia is projected to con... |
| 19.02.2019 | Indonesian e-commerce pioneer Bhinneka opens official store – on Lazada | In Indonesia’s competitive e-commerce landscape, medium-sized players have to get creative to reach potential customers, going an omnichannel route.
Bhinneka.com, a dinosaur of Indonesia’s e-commerce scene and initially specializing in elec... |
| 11.01.2019 | Indonesian minister contacts Philippine government to repeal Go-Jek expansion denial | With regulators in the Philippines hampering Go-Jek’s entry to the country, the Indonesian ride-hailing company has an ally coming to its assistance. Indonesia’s Minister of Communication and Information Technology Rudiantara has promised t... |
| 12.11.2018 | How Much of This Food Is Actually Indonesian? | It's campaign season in Indonesia, which means that everyone's talking about food. On the surface, it's weird that food is getting so much attention, considering everything else that's been going on in Indonesia. The economy is in the dumps... |
| 10.09.2018 | Go-Jek fuels digital content strategy by backing online media firm Kumparan | Indonesia-based O2O player Go-Jek is doubling down on its digital content strategy by backing Indonesian online hybrid site Kumparan via its investment arm Go-Ventures. The investment amount remains undisclosed.
Founded in 2016, Kumparan is... |
| 13.08.2018 | Indonesia weekly | Smart Kiosk funding, Salim gets into mobile money, Indonesia’s first e-sports league | Funding for Pasarpolis from three local unicorns
Insurance marketplace Pasarpolis confirmed receiving funding (link in Indonesian) from three Indonesian unicorn startups, Go-Jek, Traveloka, and Tokopedia.
Pasarpolis offers a variety of heal... |
| 18.04.2017 | Why A 'Tour Group' Is Raising Security Concerns Ahead Of The Jakarta Election | Hardline Islamists found a new, weird way to oppose the campaign of Jakarta's incumbent Christian Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama on election day: treat the whole thing like a tourist attraction.
An organization that calls itself Kelompok T... |
| - | Индонезийские стартапы Gojek и Tokopedia объявили о слиянии. Объединенная GoTo Group получит набор сервисов «на все случаи жизни»... | Индонезийские стартапы Gojek и Tokopedia объявили о слиянии. Объединенная GoTo Group получит набор сервисов «на все случаи жизни»
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Два крупнейших стартапа Индонезии, а именно торговая площадка Tokopedia... |
| - | Indonesia Weekly Review: 3 Archipelago Startup Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week [23 January – 28 January] | Indonesia is a particularly noteworthy marketplace in Asia. Here’s what the Indonesian tech community has been upto this week.Media Startup Kumparan Raises Funding
Media startup based out of Indonesia, Kumparan has secured an undisclosed am... |
