February marks the 34th month in a row where Indonesian exports exceeded imports, but both figures are on a declining trend in a reflection of the global economic slowdown.

Worker pay has been one casualty of the years of sputtering growth in the world's third-largest economy since the late 1990s, leaving Japanese salaries well behind the OECD average.

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank has caused a certain degree of paranoia, reminding many of the horrors of the global financial crisis in 2008. 

The logistics industry is a driving force for the national economy. Logistics transportation is one of the supports for the rise of the Indonesian economy, which is currently in a slump due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Key metrics like bookings, cancellations and room rates suggest that small accommodation businesses have found their way back into pre-pandemic shape.

The head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said Monday she wants to avoid economic dependence on Beijing, but not fully "decouple" the EU's economy from China.

The AEER think tank says Indonesian SOE lenders are too slow in raising their financing of renewable energy projects, hampering the country's drive for renewable energy.

M&A transactions typically flourish when the capital market is stable, according to a top banker of JP Morgan in Indonesia.

Former Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro said that Indonesian economic growth is stuck at 5 percent because of no real breakthrough in manufacturing industry.

Bank Indonesia’s latest data point to higher retail sales in February when compared to last year, but the month-to-month numbers reveal a consecutive decline, which experts attribute to seasonal factors.

China's consumer price inflation last month fell to its lowest level in a year, official data showed Thursday, as the country emerged from strict pandemic controls and a Lunar New Year spending binge.

The global fertilizer shortage has prompted the government to develop a new fertilizer production facility in West Papua that will start operating in 2027, with a dual aim to reinvigorate the agriculture industry in the country’s eastern regions.

Work on a dam and clean water processing, essential facilities for what is to become the new capital city, are close to completion.

Malaysia is the world's second biggest producer of palm oil and fall in its production could lift palm oil futures FCPOc3 already trading near their highest level in four months.

In 2022, Indonesia succeeded in increasing its production of strategic mineral and energy commodities, such as coal and nickel. The increased production has been a windfall for Indonesia, as 2022 has been a year of commodity price surges. However, the "business as usual" approach to mineral and energy mining often overlooks the concept of intertemporal optimization, which is of utmost importance for the sustainability of the mining industry itself.

President Xi Jinping vowed to boost the country's manufacturing capacity and not rely on overseas markets, state media reported Monday.

This year, the government will continue the National Movement for Food Inflation Control (GNPIP) to reduce food-related inflation.

The Chinese government on Sunday set a slightly lower annual economic growth target compared with last year's goal, as the world's second-biggest economy began to emerge from three years of severe COVID-19 restrictions.

Retail centers in Jakarta saw their occupancy rates increase slightly over the course of last year to an average of 77.4 percent.

Headline inflation came in higher than some analysts had forecast, while heavy rainfall and the upcoming Ramadan season will put upward pressure on consumer prices. On a monthly basis inflation eased slightly.

Electric vehicles traverse the skies above Jakarta on critical journeys that bypass the challenges of rush-hour jams. This might seem like a scene from the Hollywood blockbuster The Fifth Element, but it could soon be a natural evolution of Indonesia’s transportation ecosystem.

Airlangga said that Indonesia had gone through so many election cycle before that political tension was no longer an issue and that the country's economy had proven to be insulated from politics.

Indonesia, being one of the world's largest producers and exporters of natural resource commodities, has been positively impacted by the global commodity windfall in the past two years.

While signaling the chance of tweaking the BOJ's bond yield curve control (YCC) in the future, Ueda said the bank needed to work out the right timing and means to do so, a sign the new chief will be in no rush to overhaul the controversial policy.

The mood among corporate leaders in the Asia-Pacific region has darkened abruptly in a global economy fraught with risks from geopolitical confrontation and runaway inflation to rising social tension, a new study has found.

Chairman of House budget committee Said Abdullah said President Jokowi has sent Perry's name to the House as his sole candidate for the post.

The government's targeted budget deficit for next year is between 2.16 to 2.64 percent of GDP, shaving off up to 0.68 percentage points from this year's deficit target of 2.84 percent.