Indonesia economy

Jakarta is worried that the platform's "factory-to-consumer" business model will undermine the country's millions of small businesses.

The country enjoys some natural advantages, but faces significant challenges in outpacing its neighbors.

The contrast between the two state-owned oil firms reveals interesting differences in the political economies of Malaysia and Indonesia.

The country's local content requirements are one reason for the slow progress of the $20 billion Just Energy Transition Partnership.

Malaysia and Indonesia are both beginning to reduce long-standing subsidies that have kept fuel prices well below market rates.

Here are the three main contenders to take the post when President-elect Prabowo Subianto takes office in October.

The president-elect plans to increase the country's debt-to-GDP ratio to 50 percent, up from 39 percent currently, in order to achieve his ambitious growth targets.

The factory is the Chinese automaker's first in Southeast Asia, where it already dominates the fast-growing market for electric vehicles.

A costly China-backed high-speed rail project has increased scrutiny of Kereta Api Indonesia's finances.

The discord between Indonesia and the EU over nickel and deforestation issues reflect broader challenges facing the global order. 

The country’s small businesses could “collapse" under a flood of low-cost Chinese goods, the country's trade minister said.

Prabowo's deficit-driven economic vision draws from that of his father Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, a key intellectual of the early post-independence period.