KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – A slump in the number of Indonesian workers applying for jobs in Malaysia’s palm oil sector is worsening a labour crunch that industry players say is taking a heavy toll on the export earnings of the world’s second-largest grower of th... More »
JAKARTA/PERTH (Reuters) – An Australian passenger mistook the cockpit door for the toilet, triggering Friday’s hijack scare on a Virgin Australia flight from Brisbane to the Indonesian holiday island of Bali, police said. Matt Lockley told Bali police after hi... More »
HONG KONG (Reuters) – A Hong Kong woman was arrested on Monday on suspicion of abusing her Indonesian maids in a case that has sparked widespread outrage and drawn fresh attention to the risks faced by the migrant community. A housewife surnamed Law, 44, was a... More »
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s anti-graft agency arrested a former senior member of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s party on Friday, in a long-running case that has damaged the ruling party’s popularity ahead of elections. The Corruption Eradication Comm... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Aerospace and defense group Rolls-Royce said Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) had launched a formal investigation into concerns raised a year ago of possible bribery and corruption in China and Indonesia. Rolls Royce, the world’s second-... More »
MANILA (Reuters) – Asian economies can ride out the storm when the Federal Reserve finally begins ending years of easy money, with even those most at risk, India and Indonesia, holding enough currency reserves for rough times ahead, according to the Asian Deve... More »
MONTREAL (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Lion Air is looking to fill “thin” routes with Bombardier Inc’s C300 jets, as it challenges Malaysia’s AirAsia Bhd (AIRA.KL ) in Southeast Asia’s quick-growing market for budget travel. Chief executive Rusdi Kirana told Reuters... More »
HONG KONG (Reuters) – A Hong Kong couple were jailed on Wednesday for torturing, beating and abusing their Indonesian maid, who said they once dressed her in a diaper and tied her to a chair for five days while they went on holiday. Tai Chi-wai, 42, an electri... More »
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s central bank said monthly inflation in September would ease significantly, helped by subdued domestic demand and following a spike after an average 33 percent increase in fuel prices at the end of June. Consumer price inflation ... More »
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s energy regulator pledged on Tuesday that oil and gas sales would continue as before, seeking to calm concerns about the impact of a major graft scandal that has engulfed the agency. The interim head of the regulator, SKKMigas, s... More »
SYDNEY (Reuters) – India’s currency cartwheeled to historic lows on Monday while markets in Indonesia took a spill, evidence of how rising U.S. yields are making it harder for emerging nations to fund their current account deficits. The turbulence heightened i... More »
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he was concerned by growing religious intolerance in the country with world’s largest Muslim population, which many analysts say his administration has failed to contain. Indonesia has rec... More »
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s anti-graft agency on Wednesday arrested the head of the energy regulator to probe allegations he took more than half a million dollars from an oil firm, piling more uncertainty on energy policy in Southeast Asia’s biggest econom... More »
(Reuters) – News Corp has secured rights to show online digital clips for English Premier League soccer and other leagues in Japan, Vietnam and Indonesia, coinciding with the launch of new Internet and mobile products later this week. The mobile app and websit... More »
JAKARTA (Reuters) – The World Bank on Tuesday lowered its forecast for economic growth in Indonesia this year due to a slower-than-expected recovery in exports, a weaker outlook for foreign investment and softer commodity prices. In its quarterly economic outl... More »
SINGAPORE/CANBERRA (Reuters) – Rolls-Royce Plc RROYC.UL repeatedly failed to identify a defect that caused one of its engines to explode on a Qantas Airways Ltd (QAN.AX ) aircraft carrying more than 400 people over Indonesia three years ago, an Australian safe... More »
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc (FCX.N ) was ramping up production at its Indonesian unit on Monday, a company spokeswoman said, six weeks after a deadly tunnel collapse at the world’s No.2 copper mine halted operations. Trade union wo... More »
The author is a Reuters columnist and the opinions expressed are his own. For more from John Wasik see link.reuters.com/syk97s By John Wasik CHICAGO (Reuters) – Most emerging market talk focuses on BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – or may... More »
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Discord in Southeast Asia over how to deal with Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea comes as the region struggles to overcome competing national interests and form a European Union-style economic community by 2015. Political leaders and... More »
