Jhonlin Group, a company owned by Andi Syamsuddin Arsyad alias Haji Isam, has purchased thousands of excavators from Chinese heavy equipment manufacturer Sany Group. The purchase was made by Haji Isam in 2024...

Economic observers have found that Indonesia is often flooded with imports from China, threatening domestic industries, but imposing import tariffs of up to 200% is not seen as a solution. The executive director of the Center for Economic Reform (Core) said the ASEAN-China...

According to a report by Indonesia's state news agency, on June 28 Indonesia's Trade Minister Hassan told the media that in order to protect the local manufacturing industry, new trade regulations will be introduced in the next one to two days on cosmetics, textiles, clothing, shoes...

The chairman of the Association of Indonesian Fiber and Filament Producers (APSyFI) said that 21 textile companies in Indonesia have now closed and 31 textile factories are under threat of closure. Since the end of 2022, the level of capacity utilization of textile mills has started to go down...

Indonesia, one of the world's leading producers and exporters of durian, aims to increase the value of durian agriculture across the country, especially for the Chinese market. To achieve this goal, Indonesia plans to make the durian, nicknamed the "king of fruits,"...

On June 21, 2024, Huagang Group launched its first overseas factory project in Semarang, Indonesia. This marks a new progress in the group's overseas market layout, and will also fill the Indonesian high-end functional elastic chemical fiber fabric...

The government has initiated a downstream industrial policy, which is expected to be able to support the national economy in increasing value addition and is one of the keys to maintaining the resilience of the national economy. To support this downstream policy, the role of domestic offtakers is important, including...

Recently Indonesian social media platforms appeared to discuss the list of foreign-made cosmetics containing carcinogens, which are substances that are harmful to the body because they trigger the growth of cancer cells. A TikTok user posted the list of cosmetics containing dangerous...

Trade Minister (Mendag) said he will tighten ceramic imports due to the large number of illegal ceramic products entering from China. The Trade Ministry recently confiscated 4.57 million ceramic products, worth nearly Rp 80 billion, because they did not meet SNI standards....

Indonesia is set to become the world's fourth-largest producer of copper cathode by 2025, following the full commissioning in July 2024 of the new PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) smelter in Gresik. The Minister of Investment/Investment Coordinating Board (B...