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  • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
    Behind the Money podcast17 min listen
    Indonesia's secret to economic success

    The FT’s Mercedes Ruehl explains how Indonesia has thrived amid a shaky past few years for the global economy

  • Wednesday, 21 December, 2022
    LexCommodities
    Bauxite: holding resources hostage will impede Indonesia’s growth Premium content

    President Joko Widodo is playing a dangerous game

    Joko Widodo
  • Monday, 12 December, 2022
    News in-depthIndonesian politics
    Balancing act of Indonesia’s morality law upsets activists and Islamists

    Ban on sex outside marriage disturbs rights advocates while angering conservative groups

    A police officer stands guard on a road leading to the police station where an explosion went off in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia on Wednesday
  • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
    Indonesian politics
    Indonesia to ban insults against president under new criminal code

    Parliament approves changes that also outlaw sex outside marriage

    Two activists hold posters outside parliament in Jakarta on Monday
  • Friday, 11 November, 2022
    News in-depth
    Indonesia’s president steps on to world stage as G20 host

    Joko Widodo prepares for geopolitical balancing act with Ukraine war raging and US-China tensions high

    European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo, US president Joe Biden and Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency at the G7 summit in Germany in June
  • Monday, 7 November, 2022
    G20
    Indonesia’s president has ‘strong impression’ Putin will miss G20 summit

    Host Joko Widodo tells FT he reached the conclusion after speaking to Russian leader last week

    Indonesian police officers stand in front of a G20 sign
  • Monday, 7 November, 2022
    Gideon Rachman
    The first global summit of the second cold war

    Joe Biden and Xi Jinping may meet at the G20 in Indonesia, whose president embodies an older non-aligned tradition

    Illustration of Jo Biden, Joko Widodo and  Xi Jinping sitting at a wooden table looking at a large screen showing Vladimir Putin at the other end of a long white table
  • Sunday, 2 October, 2022
    InterviewIndonesia
    Indonesia on the hunt for investors to back its new capital

    Jakarta is sinking but experts warn government cannot afford Joko Widodo’s ambitious legacy project

    An illustration of Indonesia’s future presidential palace in Nusantara
  • Tuesday, 20 September, 2022
    The Big Read
    Indonesia’s unexpected success story

    The economy is prospering despite the sense of crisis elsewhere but the country’s politics could become more unstable

  • Monday, 12 September, 2022
    Interview
    Indonesia’s president Widodo to consider ‘all options’ on Russian oil

    Leader of south-east Asia’s largest economy wants to buy cheaper fuel to tame soaring energy costs

    Joko Widodo, Indonesia’s president speaking in the presidential palace
  • Friday, 19 August, 2022
    G20
    Xi and Putin to attend G20 summit in Bali, says Indonesian president

    November conference raises prospect of a meeting with Biden in wake of growing tensions with west

    Joko Widodo arrives at a Hyundai manufacturing plant on Thursday
  • Sunday, 30 January, 2022
    News in-depthNikkei Asia
    Indonesia’s new capital Nusantara sparks controversy

    Critics object to ‘Java-centric’ name amid claims of hasty legislation and corruption concerns

    A design illustration of Indonesia’s future presidential palace
  • Sunday, 24 January, 2021
    News in-depthIndonesia
    The smiling ex-general who has become Indonesia’s ‘Mr Fixit’

    Luhut Pandjaitan has emerged as President Joko Widodo’s right-hand man

  • Sunday, 10 January, 2021
    Indonesia
    Indonesia relies on vaccine rollout as officials lose ‘control’ of pandemic

    With Covid-19 cases rocketing, Jakarta bets on inoculating 180m citizens across 10,000 islands

  • Sunday, 6 December, 2020
    News in-depthIndonesian politics
    Indonesia looks to Biden for more ‘professional’ stance on China

    US faces task to win back strategically important nation after Beijing makes inroads

    Joko Widodo on the deck of an Indonesian navy ship in 2016
  • Monday, 5 October, 2020
    Indonesia
    Indonesia’s parliament passes sweeping reform bill

    Overhaul of tax and labour market laws rushed through parliament despite union protests

  • Tuesday, 22 September, 2020
    News in-depthNikkei Asia
    Dream state: Widodo struggles to build his vision for Indonesia

    President’s infrastructure success has defined him. But he relies on personality not process

  • Saturday, 18 April, 2020
    News in-depthCoronavirus
    Confusion blights Indonesia’s battle against coronavirus

    Government’s incoherent response to outbreak raises contagion fears during Ramadan exodus

    An Indonesian soldier wears a face mask as he enforces social restrictions to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the outskirts of Jakarta on Wednesday
  • Tuesday, 21 January, 2020
    Indonesia
    Indonesia plans to overhaul laws to raise foreign investment

    Parliament hopes tax and labour market reforms will help boost manufacturing base

    Mandatory Credit: Photo by MAST IRHAM/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (10372071a) President Joko Widodo talks to the media as he announces the location of the country's new capital city during a press conference at the state palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, 26 August 2019. The President announced that East Kalimantan in Borneo will be the location for Indonesia's new capital. New capital city Announched by the president in Jakarta, Indonesia - 26 Aug 2019
  • Tuesday, 14 January, 2020
    Indonesia
    Indonesia taps Tony Blair to help oversee new capital city

    Steering group also includes Abu Dhabi prince and SoftBank chief in bid to boost investor confidence

    JAKARTA, INDONESIA: British Prime Minister Tony Blair (C) claps next to students during a visits to a boarding school in Jakarta, 30 March 2006. Britain and Indonesia have both been the victims of terrorist atrocities and must join together to fight the scourge of Islamic militancy, Blair said during a joint press conference with Yudhoyono. AFP PHOTO/ JEFRY ARIES/ POOL (Photo credit should read JEFREY ARIES/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Monday, 13 January, 2020
    LexSovereign wealth funds
    UAE/Indonesia: sunk investment Premium content

    For the Middle Eastern country this smacks more of political than financial gains

  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2019
    Indonesian politics
    Indonesian ex-general accused of rights abuses is named defence chief

    President Joko Widodo appoints Prabowo Subianto to new cabinet for his second term

    Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto is congratulated by Indonesian President Joko Widodo, as First Lady Iriana Widodo stands next to them, after the swearing-in ceremony during the inauguration at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 23, 2019 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Wahyu Putro A/ via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. INDONESIA OUT.
  • Friday, 27 September, 2019
    Indonesian politics
    Indonesian president struggles to defuse rising protests

    Joko Widodo feels heat as violent opposition to changes threatens investor sentiment

    Protesters demonstrate after a student's riot in Jakarta, Indonesia. September 25, 2019. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan
  • Friday, 20 September, 2019
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The killers of Sander Thoenes should finally face justice

    A climate of impunity over violence against reporters is strengthening

    Financial Times journalist, Dutch national Sander Thoenes, 30, who was found dead in Becora village in East Timor Tuesday 22 September 1999.
  • Monday, 26 August, 2019
    Indonesia
    Joko Widodo names Borneo site for new Indonesian capital

    East Kalimantan to host planned $33bn city to replace sinking Jakarta megacity

    This aerial picture taken on July 12, 2019 shows a sea wall dividing houses and the waters along the north Jakarta coast. - One of the fastest-sinking cities on earth, environmental experts warn that one third of it could be submerged by 2050 if current rates continue. (Photo by BAGUS SARAGIH / AFP) / TO GO WITH Indonesia-environment-social,FEATURE by Dessy SAGITA (Photo credit should read BAGUS SARAGIH/AFP/Getty Images)
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