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  Indonesia likely to record trade deficit in November: poll

  Reuters . Jakarta | Updated at 12:00am on December 14, 2019

  Indonesia’s trade balance is likely to have returned to a deficit in November after a surprise surplus in the prior month, a Reuters poll showed...

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  Indonesia bets on ‘omnibus laws’ to fix investment climate

  Reuters . Jakarta | Updated at 12:00am on December 13, 2019

  Indonesian president Joko Widodo is due to hand over to parliament soon so-called ‘omnibus laws’ to replace dozens of overlapping measures in a bid to...

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  Indonesia needs to urgently establish data protection law: minister

  Reuters . Jakarta | Updated at 12:00am on November 18, 2019

  Indonesia aimed to bring in a new law to protect personal data by next year as it followed in the footsteps of Southeast Asian neighbours...

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  Indonesia report on 737 MAX crash blames Boeing design, Lion Air mistakes

  Reuters . Jakarta | Updated at 12:00am on October 26, 2019

  Boeing, acting without adequate oversight from US regulators, failed to grasp risks in the design of cockpit software on its 737 MAX airliner, sowing the...

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  Indonesia issues rules to block illegally imported mobile phones

  Reuters . Jakarta | Updated at 12:00am on October 19, 2019

  Indonesia had issued regulations to allow authorities to block smartphones purchased on the black market, in a bid to encourage investors to produce mobile phones...

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  Indonesia to relax rules, launch more SEZs to attract investment

  Reuters . Jakarta | Updated at 12:00am on October 11, 2019

  Indonesia will expand and simplify tax incentives it offers for investment in special economic zones (SEZs) and develop more such areas, aiming to attract over...

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  US helps Mastercard, Visa score victory in Indonesia in global lobbying effort

  Reuters . Jakarta/ New Delhi | Updated at 12:00am on October 05, 2019

  US trade officials, at the request of card networks Mastercard and Visa, convinced Indonesia late last year to loosen rules governing its new domestic payment...

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  Indonesian, Malaysian c banks sign $2b local currency swap deal

  Reuters . Jakarta | Updated at 12:00am on September 29, 2019

  The central banks of Indonesia and Malaysia signed on Friday a $2 billion-equivalent of local currency bilateral swap agreement to encourage and facilitate use of...

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  Southeast Asian nations weigh unified approach to regulating Big Tech

  Reuters . Jakarta | Updated at 12:00am on September 25, 2019

  Southeast Asian governments are banding together to take on global tech giants on issues including ‘fake news’ and taxation, marking a new stage in the...

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  Dozens arrested over Papua protests

  Reuters . Jakarta | Updated at 02:23pm on September 01, 2019

  Indonesian police have arrested dozens of people in the easternmost region of Papua following protests last week in which buildings were set ablaze, a police...