Indonesia and Australia deepen defense ties with new security pact

President Prabowo Subianto and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have agreed to strengthen defense cooperation between Indonesia and Australia aimed at enhancing consultation mechanisms at State leadership and ministerial levels on regional security issues, while also committing to develop and implement mutually beneficial security initiatives.

Government to auction 75 oil and gas blocks by 2027 to boost exploration

The Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Task Force (SKK Migas) says the government has plan to auction 75 oil and gas working areas over the next two years as part of the efforts to strengthen upstream exploration and secure future energy supplies.

Finance ministry to unify tax, customs and excise data under a single profile system

The Finance Ministry has planned to integrate data from taxpayers, fee payers, and customs and excise service users into a unified single profile database, marking a major step in its strategy to strengthen state revenue collection.

Indonesia seeks stronger climate cooperation with Sweden for high-integrity carbon market

The Indonesian government, through the Ministry of Environment (KLH), is pushing for concrete cooperation with Sweden business community to accelerate emission reductions through Indonesia’s carbon economic value (NEK) framework.

ARCI shares soar 424 percent following recent geothermal expansion

Gold and silver mining company, PT Archi Indonesia (ARCI) have moved fast in expanding its business toward the geothermal energy sector, with its shares soaring by up to 424 percent.

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Renewable-energy_Blog

Indonesia's fiscal policy for the 2020-2025 period is still not preferable toward the development of renewable energy as it has yet to show the linkup between fossil energy sector's income with the funding of renewable energy, concluded a study by Initiative Association.

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Attorney General’s Office probes Telkom’s investment in GoTo

The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) has launched an investigation into state-owned telecommunications giant PT Telkom Indonesia’s (TLKM) investment in tech firm PT GoTo Gojek Tokopedia (GOTO), a legal move that adds fresh scrutiny to one of the country’s most high-profile digital sector tie-ups. Read more

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Former Kominfo director-general indicted in Rp150 B data center corruption case

Former Director General of Informatics Applications at the Ministry of Communication and Informatics (Kominfo) − now the Ministry of Communication and Digital Applications (Komdigi) − Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan has been indicted for allegedly causing over Rp150 billion (US$9 million) in State losses related to the 2020-2024 temporary national data center (PDNS) project. Read more

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Sofyan Djalil

Minister of Agrarian and Spatial Planning of Indonesia

Sofyan A. Djalil was born in 1953 in Aceh. Djalil is the Minister of Agrarian and Spatial Planning of Indonesia. He was a very persistent person at a young age to reach his goals, that persistence made him successful in studying at the University of Indonesia (UI). At UI, he studied Business Law and graduated in 1984. He then met his future wife, Dr. Ir. Ratna Megawangi, M.Sc. and has 3 children.

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Siti Nurbaya Bakar

Minister of Environment and Forestry

Siti Nurbaya Bakar was born in 1956 in Jakarta to Mochamad Bakar and Sri Banon. She is the current Minister of Environment and Forestry. Her father is a retired Betawi Police officer and his mother is from Lambung. Siti is married to Rusli Rachman and has two children: Meitra Mivida NR and Ananda Tohpati.

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Sandiaga Uno

Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy

Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno was born in 1969 in Riau, Indonesia. Uno is the current Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy. During his childhood, he met with Erick Thohir and was in the same elementary school as a schoolmate. Sandiaga Uno was an undergraduate of Wichita State University in the United States, he graduated with a cum laude. He continued his university education in the United States at George Washington University in 1990 after receiving a paid scholarship from William Soerjadjaja and graduated with an MBA in 1992 and a GPA 4.00. 

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Sakti Wahyu Trenggono

Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

Wahyu Sakti Trenggono was born in Semarang in 1962, He is the current Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries. Trenggono is a person who focuses on business development. He attended a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering at the Bandung Institute of Technology in 1986, after which he continued his Masters in Management at the Bandung Institute of Technology.

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Ridwan Kamil

Governor of West Java since 2018 - 2023

Mohammad Ridwan Kamil called Kang Emil or Ridwan was born in Bandung in 1971. Kamil is the Governor of West Java since 2018. He is the son of a husband and wife Dr. Atje Misbach, S. H. and Dra. Tjutju Sukaesih. Ridwan is the second of five children. Ridwan has a family, he is married to Atalia Praratya Kamil and has children Camillia Laetitia Azzahra and Emmiril Khan Mumtadz.

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Retno Lestari Priansari Marsudi

UN Special Envoy on Water

Retno Lestari Priansari Marsudi was born in Semarang, Central Java in 1962. Marsudi is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs. She studied secondary at SMA Negeri 3 Semarang and is an undergraduate graduate from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta. Then he continued his master's studies majoring in European Union Law at Haagse Hogeschool, in the Netherlands. He continued his studies at the University of Oslo on Human Rights.

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Puan Maharani

Speaker of People’s Representative Council

Puan Maharani Nakshatra Kusyala Devi, or known as Puan Maharani was born on 6 September 1973. She is the current Speaker of People’s Representative Council. Her mother is Megawati Soekarno Putri, the founder of the Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), currently one of the biggest parties in Indonesia, a former Indonesian President and the daughter of Indonesia's first President, Soekarno. Her father, Taufiq Kiemas, was also a politician who had served both in the House of Representatives and the People’s Consultative Assembly. She married Hapsoro “Happy” Sukmonohadi, who works in the property business as well as being the commissioner of various companies, Odira Energy Persada, PT. Prima Utama Mandiri, PT. Rukun Raharja Tbk, PT Meteor Mitra Mandiri, and PT Triguna internusa Pratama. 

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Pratikno

Minister of State Secretariat

Pratikno was born in Bojonegoro in 1962. Pratikno is the current Minister of State Secretariat. He is married to Dra. Ec. Siti Faridah and has 3 children. From a young age, he had a passion for learning in order to achieve his goals. In his childhood, there was not a single elementary school building where he lived. He also studied at the house of a village head. He was the only one of his many friends who entered junior high school because the distance from his house was very far, but with strong determination he continued.

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Indonesia targets August launch for national data protection authority

The Ministry of Communication and Digital Application (Komdigi) is set to launch Indonesia's long-awaited Personal Data Protection (PDP) Authority by August 2025 as the regulatory process is currently in the harmonization phase, with officials reviewing more than 200 articles in the Personal Data Protection Law (UU PDP).Read more

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Telkom launches new subsea cable station in Minahasa to boost global connectivity

Telkom Indonesia, through its subsidiary PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia International (Telin), has launched a new Cable Landing Station (CLS) in Kalasey, Minahasa, North Sulawesi, or  the Manado-Minahasa CLS, which serves as one of the primary landing points for the Bifrost subsea cable system, an infrastructure project developed in collaboration with Keppel and Meta. Read more

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