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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Jun- 2026 -16 JuneEarth
Southeast Asia’s oil bill could triple by 2035 without urgent diversification
The International Energy Agency projects the region's net oil import costs will climb from US$80 billion in 2024 to US$245 billion by 2035 if fossil fuel policies remain unchanged, exposing…
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13 JunePower
Indonesia’s rupiah crisis is forcing Prabowo to choose early
Student protests in Jakarta on 12 June demanded spending cuts and an end to military roles in civilian posts, echoing the 1998 movement that toppled Suharto as the rupiah weakened…
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12 JuneCompass
Singapore’s dollar is stretching further. Asia’s energy importers are paying for it.
The rupiah crossed 14,000 per Singdollar on June 3, 2026, as Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, South Korea, and Japan all weakened against a currency riding safe-haven flows and energy-import immunity.
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11 JunePower
Indonesia convicted four officers. The investigation found thirteen.
A Jakarta military court sentenced the men who attacked activist Hendry Yulius to 1.5–3 years, while Indonesia's human rights commission identified at least nine other suspects never charged.
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11 JuneCapital
Indonesia’s fuel subsidy math is already broken
Pertamina raised non-subsidised petrol 32% to IDR 16,250 per litre on June 10, but the 2026 budget assumed USD 82 oil and a stronger rupiah—neither of which held.
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11 JuneCapital
Indonesia’s rate hike can’t fix what politics just broke
Bank Indonesia raised rates to 5.50% on June 9, but the rupiah kept falling past IDR 17,000 per dollar—a record low that signals investors no longer trust President Prabowo's fiscal…
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11 JuneTech & AI
A Seoul data centre fire shows why digital sovereignty through localization fails
When 647 public services went offline in September 2025 after a fire destroyed 850 terabytes of state records with no backup, the cause was not a cyberattack—it was a localization…
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9 JuneCapital
Asian households are turning to unregulated AI for money advice
Sixty percent of respondents across six markets now use generative AI for financial decisions, up from 18% a year ago, as inflation erodes household buffers and regulatory frameworks lag behind…
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8 JuneEarth
A 7.6 earthquake just tested Asia’s tsunami warning system
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center forecast waves up to three metres along Philippine coasts and one metre for Indonesia and Malaysia, but the real test is whether people in remote…
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5 JunePower
Japan is arming Southeast Asia with ships tailored to each threat
On June 5, Tokyo and Jakarta agreed to begin talks on transferring used Asagiri-class destroyers—3,500-ton air-defense capable hulls—while offering lighter Abukuma-class ships to Manila, signaling Japan's shift from aid donor…
