After recent graft scandals involving Supreme Court justices that severely undermined the integrity of the country's highest court, critics have demanded better screening procedures for recruiting new justices to ensure clean and high-quality appointees.

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.

A family of three, which included a Balinese woman and her dual-national infant, were among the more than 11,200 people killed in the two massive earthquakes that decimated parts of southern Turkey and northern Syria.

The Investment Ministry said on Wednesday that no United States electric vehicle (EV) company had submitted an investment application to the ministry, despite the government’s efforts to attract EV production to Indonesia.

The report described the investors as "a group of private, high-wealth individuals" from Qatar, which hosted the 2022 World Cup. 

Proponents hope the machines could eventually help elderly people in depopulated rural areas get access to goods, while also addressing a shortage of delivery workers in a country with chronic labour shortages.

Experts have urged that public health infrastructure should be top of mind among relevant state institutions during the development of the nation's new capital city.

Most Asian markets rose Wednesday but traders remained on edge after Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell reiterated that inflation was coming down but interest rates might need to go higher than expected to get it under control.

Many accused her of transphobia for putting the emphasis on biological sex over notions of gender. She denies the charge.

The Central Queensland Coal owned mine is in the Styx Coal Basin, just off the coast of central Queensland.

For two days and nights since the 7.8 magnitude quake an impromptu army of rescuers have worked in freezing temperatures to find those still entombed among ruins that pockmark several cities either side of the border.

In the annual speech to assembled lawmakers, many of whom have pressed for a hard line on China, Biden called for US investment in the military, technology and alliances to take on the country widely viewed as the chief US competitor.

The asteroid measuring between 300 and 650 feet (100 to 200 meters) in length is the smallest object observed to date using the telescope, the US space agency NASA said Monday.

Indonesian students abroad share how to manage their finances while readying for inflation.

Indonesia said it was prepared to provide assistance to regions affected by a series of deadly earthquakes that rocked parts of Turkey and Syria on Monday, government officials have said.

Coworking businesses have been bleeding throughout the pandemic, with the recent bankruptcy of one of the dominant players CoHive being a symptom of what experts saw as the industry’s prevailing condition in 2023.

As the scale of the disaster became ever more apparent, the death toll looked likely to rise considerably. One UN official said thousands of children may have died.

At least now ASEAN and China have a formal forum to defuse tension in the resources-rich sea. Both sides have committed to keeping the conflict at a manageable level because the South China Sea is one of the world’s busiest sea lanes. 

The Nusantara Capital City (IKN) Authority has claimed huge investment interest from the private sector to invest in the capital city within the next two years, but businesses said they were actually taking a gamble by grabbing land in the capital city and would not really invest until a new government was formed after next year’s elections.

The decision by the General Elections Commission (KPU) not to redraw the electoral districts for the 2024 general elections other than in four new provinces in Papua despite mounting calls for a thorough overhaul has further raised questions over the commission’s independence.

Celebrating their centennial anniversary on Tuesday, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the nation’s Islamic organization, is setting an ambitious goal for the next one. 

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

With uncertainty still surrounding the course of the global economy this year, Indonesia's major lenders are erring on the side of caution with their 2023 loan targets.

"Event overview maps show that potentially 23 million people are exposed, including around five million vulnerable populations," the World Health Organization's senior emergencies officer Adelheid Marschang said.

In an interview with Reuters on Wednesday, the President revealed his military diplomacy plan to convince junta leader, Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, to learn from Indonesia’s experience after then-president Soeharto ended his 32-year military-backed rule in May 1998 and Indonesia became a fully fledged democracy. Myanmar’s military at the time reportedly learned a lot from Soeharto, including the dual function of the military and the tight restrictions for political parties.

A police spokesperson in Papua province, Sr. Comr. Ignatius Benny Adi Prabowo, said authorities were investigating the incident, with police and military personnel sent to the area to locate the pilot and five passengers. 

The loss compared with the net profit of 29.0 billion yen ($219 million) the firm reported in the same three-month period last year.