Indonesia
The region’s largest economy and population, sitting on the nickel reserves the entire electric vehicle industry is racing to secure.
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Aug- 2026 -18 AugustCompass
Bali airport stays open as Flores earthquake death toll climbs to 68
A 7.7 magnitude quake on 15 August killed at least 68 people across East Nusa Tenggara, but Bali's main airport remains operational while five regional terminals face damage assessment and…
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12 AugustPower
China brings Indonesia into waters Taiwan claims as its own
The PLA's first joint naval drill east of Taiwan with an Indonesian frigate tests whether repeated foreign participation can normalize Beijing's contested presence.
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11 AugustEarth
Indonesia’s fires are spreading. Cloud seeding cannot stop them.
A Super El Niño and positive Indian Ocean Dipole have stripped the atmosphere of rain-bearing clouds, leaving only water-bombing crews to fight 107,000 hectares already burned across 10 provinces as…
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10 AugustCapital
India’s $41 billion currency trick is reshaping how Asia defends reserves
The Reserve Bank of India pulled in $41 billion through a subsidised deposit window by July 31, setting a benchmark for incentive-based defense that other central banks are now copying—but…
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10 AugustSociety
The primatologist who quit to expose Asia’s hidden lab supply chain
A documentary premiering at Melbourne on August 11 follows Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel's break with animal testing and her warning that Southeast Asian macaque farms pose epidemiological risks comparable to COVID-19's…
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10 AugustSociety
Indonesian creators are monetizing foreign political outrage on Meta
A Guardian investigation found thousands of Indonesian accounts posting polarizing content in Australian and US Facebook groups, exploiting Meta's US$3 billion creator payment system to generate engagement payouts.
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8 AugustTech & AI
A Australian startup just became the AI infrastructure bet of the moment
Firmus Technologies raised $2 billion at a $10.5 billion valuation in four months, signaling that private capital now sees regional compute capacity—not algorithms—as the real bottleneck in AI.
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7 AugustEarth
Indonesia’s fire season is already outpacing 2023 by double
Mount Bromo National Park closed indefinitely after a wildfire burned 127 hectares in steep terrain, but the real alarm is the 107,000 hectares burned nationally in just six months—more than…
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6 AugustEarth
El Niño’s drought gifts Indonesia’s salt farmers while wildfires rage
Cirebon's July harvest surged to 600 metric tons—a twentyfold jump—as the same dry pattern pushing wildfire hotspots past 5,000 across the archipelago extends the coastal evaporation window.
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6 AugustEarth
Malaysia’s durian boom is collapsing under its own weight
Prices for premium Musang King fruit have halved in a year as growers race to adapt to heat, flooding, and oversupply that China's market appetite created.
