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Indonesia will be able to weather the current economic storm as the country has hands-on experience of handling economic turbulence in the past.

Foreign investment flows to Indonesia during the first half of 2015 led the ASEAN region, said head of the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) Franky Sibarani on September 1.

The Singaporean and Indonesian Navies are jointly holding the sixth Western Pacific Mine Countermeasure Exercise (WP MCMEX) from August 25-28 with the involvement of naval forces from 16 countries.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo said his country is committed to participating in infrastructure development in Timor-Leste.

Local producers can now submit requests to the Vietnam Competition Authority for a review of anti-dumping duties on several imported cold-rolled stainless steel products.

Indonesia will expand its imports of certain food items to stabilise domestic price and control inflation, Minister of Trade Thomas Lembong told the Jakarta Post.

Indonesia and Timor Leste have reached an agreement on the management of catchment areas (DAS) along the two countries areas.

Indonesia’s central bank has decided to hold the benchmark interest rate at 7.5 percent, which has been kept unchanged for six consecutive months, in an attempt to support the currency rupiah.

The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations in Ho Chi Minh City held a ceremony on August 21 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Vietnam-Indonesia ties as well as Indonesia’s 70th Independence Day.

Indonesia and Norway will foster cooperation in sustainable aquaculture and fishery development and in fighting illegal fishing.

Indonesian rescue forces retrieved the second flight data recorder of the passenger plane that crashed in the easternmost province of Papua on August 16, the country’s Transport Ministry said.

Vietnam is seriously concerned about Indonesian authorised forces’ sinking of several Vietnamese vessels fishing illegally in Indonesian waters, Spokesman of the Foreign Ministry Le Hai Binh.

Indonesia and Australia agreed to promote collaboration in fighting terrorism, particularly extremism in the Middle East, as well as in national security issues.

A ATR 42-300 twin-turboprop plane operated by Indonesian carrier Trigana Air appears to have crashed into a mountain after going missing on August 16, said Air Transportation Director General Supraset

Indonesia will import 50,000 ready-to-slaughter cattle from Australia in response to a sharp increase in the price of domestic beef, said Minister of Trade Rachmat Gobel.

Indonesia will change its lifestyle paradigm of consumption to empower productive sectors to boost its economy, President Joko Widodo remarked at the annual People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR).

Singaporean and Indonesian officials and agricultural enterprise representatives met on August 13 in Makassar, the capital city of Indonesia’s province of South Sulawesi.

Indonesia and the Vatican have agreed to strengthen ties and hold intergovernmental dialogues, reported the Antara agency news.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo reshuffled his cabinet on August 12 by replacing a number of leaders of important ministries in a bid to boost economic recovery, according to Antara news agency.

Police in Indonesia’s North Sumatra provincial capital of Medan arrested 1,143 suspected drug traffickers and users in the first seven months of this year.