Renewable energy is a pressing issue that is challenging the world today. The pandemic has taught the world a valuable lesson: to be more serious about responding to climate change. It is undeniable that humans need energy to carry out their daily activities.

The President says that if not by today, he will choose his nominees for BI Governor Perry Warjiyo's successor by Wednesday.

The tricky task of steering the Bank of Japan (BOJ) out of years of ultra-low interest rates without upending markets required the skill to read markets and clearly communicate policy intentions, both domestically and internationally.

The central bank also prepared a time deposit facility to encourage exporters to store foreign exchange receipts in country.

The Rockefeller Foundation says countries of the so-called Global South, home to 85 percent of the world’s population, must claim a greater role in shaping the future of the planet.

Getting more manufacturing facilities to use electricity generated by the state electricity firm PLN could be the easiest way to tackle the country’s electricity supply glut, energy experts say.

On a monthly basis, the trade surplus is lower than the previous month, due to a downward trend in exports for the past five months.

As part of reaching net-zero by 2060, Indonesia plans by 2025 to produce energy from renewables as much as 23 percent. This renewable energy is contributed by hydro energy (8 percent), geothermal (7.5 percent), biomass (6 percent), and other renewable energy (1.5 percent).

Japan's economy expanded just 0.2 percent in the last quarter of 2022, a smaller rebound than expected despite the long-awaited reopening of the country to tourists, government data showed Tuesday.

The Indonesian government remains committed to its long-standing free and independent foreign policy doctrine while pursuing opportunities for cooperation with United States firms on critical minerals and electric vehicles.

The retail sales index rebounded in January after months of sluggish growth, while consumer confidence continued to increase in January. 

The Nusantara Capital City (IKN) Authority reported increasing interest from firms looking to put funds into the project, but few are willing to commit ahead of the 2024 election. 

Slow growth in gross fixed capital formation points to problems in the real sector, analysts say, though they disagree on how big a problem that is.

Looking back at consumers' spending behavior over the past year and into the early part of the year indicates some optimism for 2023.

Indonesia’s economy grew at the fastest pace since 2013 last year, marking the highest economic output since President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo took office.

Armed with the world's largest reserves of nickel and a ban on the export of nickel ore, Indonesia is making itself indispensable for the electric vehicle industry, which uses the metal extensively.

The UK government will make available US$1.25 billion for the development of the MRT Jakarta project with the possible involvement of Crossrail International, Mott Macdonald and six other undisclosed UK companies.

With inflation pressure appearing to relent somewhat across the world, some economists are more optimistic about 2023 being a year of global recovery, with Indonesia’s strong fiscal position giving the country an edge.

Analysts expect the global shift to renewable energy and technical problems to pose key challenges as the government scouts for investors to develop oil and gas blocks in Natuna, Riau Islands.

Indonesia’s inflation mellowed in January but remains well above the central bank’s target and varies widely from one city to another.

Indonesia is a country in a period of fruitful growth, and the nation’s successful agricultural industry is the fertile heart of that journey. Agriculture, specifically plantation, accounts for almost a third of total employment across the country and contributed almost 7 percent of Indonesia’s GDP as of 2021.

The tourism and transportation ministries have received a directive from the President to focus on capitalizing on strong demand among travelers in the three countries to visit Indonesia.

We have long been living in a rapidly changing environment, and we tend to think the new chapter of a decade will be different. This is often the case. However, as we entered the decade of the 2020s, we began to face entirely new problems and challenges. Indeed, those problems have come after one another and have created significant challenges.

China's factory activity expanded in January after months of contraction, official data showed Tuesday, as the world's second-largest economy stirs back to life after Beijing ended strict COVID curbs.

The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has raised the country’s annual coal production target to 695 million tonnes this year to cater to robust demand for the commodity.

The western state of Maharashtra, which accounts for more than a third of the country's sugar output, could produce 12.8 million tonnes of sugar in the 2022/23 marketing year that began on Oct. 1, down from an earlier forecast of 13.8 million tonnes, Maharashtra's sugar commissioner Shekhar Gaikwad said.

As the world's largest seaweed exporter, the commodity has the potential to help Indonesia achieve net zero target, but challenges on funding and research stand in the way. 

The US economy grew at a slower pace in 2022 but performed better than expected in the final months of last year, the Commerce Department said Thursday, as recession fears loomed.

The upstream oil and gas regulatory body has expanded the country's exploration and targets for this year to banking on higher firms' revenue driven by last year’s price surge for crude.

Indonesia has exceeded its target for realized investment in four consecutive years as the mining sector in conjunction with the development of downstream industries attracted vastly greater funding last year.