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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Sep- 2026 -2 SeptemberEarth
Indonesia cut disaster funding before the quake hit
A magnitude-7.7 earthquake killed 111 people and displaced 188,161 across East Nusa Tenggara, exposing how budget cuts to the national disaster agency undercut response capacity before the ground moved.
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2 SeptemberPower
Indonesia hosts record military drills while building a weapons factory with China
Super Garuda Shield 2026 opened August 31 with 21 countries as Jakarta pursues parallel defense tracks with Washington and Beijing under its doctrine of non-alignment.
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1 SeptemberEarth
Flores aftershocks test 27,000 weakened homes still standing
With over 188,000 people in shelters and seismic models pointing to weeks of elevated shaking, Indonesia faces a race to inspect damaged structures before the next moderate jolt finishes what…
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Aug- 2026 -29 AugustCapital
SBI pays $270M to make Indonesia Ajaib’s yen stablecoin gateway
Japan's largest financial conglomerate acquires a 20% stake in Indonesia's 20-million-user investment platform, deploying its regulated yen stablecoin beyond Japan for the first time and signaling structural confidence in a…
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29 AugustTech & AI
Indonesia’s new fiber grid is half-owned by its biggest rival
RAIA Grid launched 86,000 kilometers of wholesale backbone on August 26, but Indosat retains 49.7 percent while running a competing network, and control rests with the president's brother—a governance structure…
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24 AugustEarth
Indonesia traces fire money to plantation companies as haze spreads
Police have arrested 72 people across 89 cases since January and are now examining financial records to determine whether companies paid for illegal land clearing that sent smoke into Malaysia.
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23 AugustCapital
Hong Kong’s $7.6 billion Indonesia bet masks a tariff evasion risk
Foreign direct investment from China and Hong Kong into Indonesia tripled to $11.5 billion in H1 2026, but the routing pattern raises questions about whether companies are circumventing US tariffs…
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23 AugustTech & AI
Singapore’s first hydrogen data centre just got $415 million to prove it works
DayOne's 20-megawatt facility will pilot a 0.3-megawatt solid oxide fuel cell system, testing whether hydrogen can power dense urban data infrastructure within the city-state's tight grid constraints.
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23 AugustEarth
Southeast Asia’s grid needs $50 billion yearly. It’s spending $13 billion.
The International Energy Agency projects grid and storage investment must quadruple by 2050, with $27 billion annually funding cross-border power trade under the ASEAN Power Grid framework.
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21 AugustCompass
Flores earthquake split tourism in two. Only the coast is open.
The Labuan Bajo–Komodo marine circuit is running with 2,000+ daily visitors, but inland destinations including Wae Rebo and Kelimutu remain closed through at least August 28 as aftershocks continue.
