Indonesia

A rumbling volcano on Indonesia’s Sumatra island has shot billowing columns of ash and hot clouds down its slopes.

Indonesia reported 350,273 new infections between July 12 and July 18, a 44% increase from the week before, the World Health Organization said.

Indonesia’s finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati discusses the country’s shifting budgetary focus to “protect the people” without sacrificing the economy.

The spread of the more transmissible delta variant has pushed daily Covid-19 cases to record highs in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand in recent weeks.

Travelers regularly search for activities in New York, Paris and Rome — but the world’s most popular online travel search is in none of those places.

Covid infections are increasing much more quickly than before, said Indonesia’s health minister, Budi Gunadi Sadikin.

Medical workers in Indonesia are grappling with the pressure of caring for Covid patients while vaccinating the population, Edhie Rahmat of Project HOPE said.

John Riady, director of Indonesia’s conglomerate Lippo Group, said the country is the “most exciting” digital and tech market in Asia — and arguably the world.

Companies such as Grab, Sea could be the ones acquiring start-ups, according to Vinnie Lauria of Golden Gate Ventures.

Indonesia’s military has declared its missing submarine sunk and cracked open after finding items from the vessel over the past two days

The oxygen supply for the 53 crew members of an Indonesian submarine missing in waters off Bali is believed to have run out early Saturday with no sign of the vessel

Indonesian navy ships are searching for a submarine that likely sank too deep to retrieve, making survival chances for the 53 people on board slim

Muslims in many parts of the world are marking the start of Ramadan as coronavirus cases spike in some countries

The death toll from mudslides in eastern Indonesia has risen to 126 with scores still missing, officials said Wednesday, as rain continued to pound the region and hamper the search.

Indonesia’s disaster relief agency says landslides and flash floods from torrential rains have killed at least 41 people and displaced thousands.

Technical professionals in engineering, product management and data science can command some of Southeast Asia’s top start-up salaries, according to a report.

Indonesia’s transport minister says navy divers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder of a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea in January with 62 people on board.

Two attackers believed to be members of a militant network that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group have blown themselves up outside a packed Roman Catholic cathedral during a Palm Sunday Mass on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, wounding at least 20 people

The country halted the use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine after more than a dozen countries in Europe suspended the vaccine due to blood clot concerns.

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