Indonesia

ASEAN Tech 6 min GoTo Releases a 27-Billion-Parameter Indonesian Language Model, Built With AI Singapore The Gojek and Tokopedia owner calls it open-source. It ships under Google's Gemma licence, needs up to 60 GB o... DA Daniel Koh 20 Oct ASEAN Tech 6 min Indonesia's OJK Fines Unnamed Parties Rp2.1 Trillion Over DSSA Trading and BREN, CUAN Share Allocations Indonesia's market regulator says shares were manipulated and IPO allotments steered to disguised buyers. It c... SA Sarah Chew 19 Oct ASEAN Tech 4 min Singapore Serves Haze Notices on Seven Indonesian Firms NEA's notices order the companies to fight fires and stop burning. Fines or charges are within consideration,... SA Sarah Chew 17 Oct ASEAN Tech 5 min Singapore Says It May Act Against the Firms Behind the Haze. Its 2015 Haze Cases Are Still Open PM Wong cited the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act as unhealthy air persisted. Four investigations from the 20... SA Sarah Chew 16 Oct Business 4 min Princeton Digital Group Sells Five Indonesian Data Centres to Sinar Mas's SM+ PDG is keeping its 400 MW of hyperscale campuses near Jakarta and handing its older enterprise sites to a loca... EV Eva Chin 15 Oct ASEAN Tech 4 min Indonesia Passed a Law to Give Its Government One Set of Data, and Parliament a Veto on Sending It Abroad The One Data law sets a single national reference for budgets and welfare, a 24-hour incident-reporting deadli... SA Sarah Chew 12 Oct Home & Living 6 min Kakak is an older sister in Malaysia and any older sibling in Indonesia Malaysia's Kamus Dewan Perdana defines kakak as an older sister; Indonesia's KBBI defines it as an older sibli... AM Amelia Wong 3 Oct ASEAN Tech 4 min West Java Stopped a Singapore Firm's AI Data Centre a Week After It Broke Ground BDx began building a 640 MW campus by the Jatiluhur reservoir without its environmental assessment or building... DA Daniel Koh 2 Oct Business 4 min Indonesia's DOKU Becomes 'DOKU by Antom' and Makes Its Co-Founder Chief Executive Himelda Renuat also heads Antom Indonesia. Ant International's payments arm says its investment has deepened b... EV Eva Chin 27 Sep Statistics 5 min How many Indonesian words can you make from seven letters A random rack of seven letters makes a median of at least 23 Indonesian words, but a word using all seven turn... NA Nadia Rahim 27 Sep Business 5 min Bank Indonesia Holds at 5.75% in Destry Damayanti's First Meeting as Governor Indonesia's central bank kept rates unchanged under its new leadership. The rupiah is near 17,855, credit is o... EV Eva Chin 27 Sep Science 6 min Eight Years of Watching Decides What an Orangutan Eats Researchers followed 21 wild Sumatran orangutans from birth to independence across 4,700 hours. Those that wat... NA Nadia Rahim 26 Sep Business 4 min Indonesia and Hong Kong Talk QR Payments That Bypass the Dollar The memorandum is exploratory, with no timetable and no pilot. What it actually rests on appears in the Indone... EV Eva Chin 25 Sep Business 5 min Ultrajaya Buys Frisian Flag and Loses Control of Itself A Rp14.57 trillion share issue hands FrieslandCampina the largest single holding in the company buying its Ind... EV Eva Chin 21 Sep ASEAN Tech 6 min Indonesia Sets Child-Safety Fines at 6% of Global Revenue A foreign platform is measured against its worldwide turnover; an Indonesian medium firm against a fixed ceili... SA Sarah Chew 19 Sep ASEAN Tech 7 min Green SM Calls Jakarta Its First International Market. It Is Not. The press release went round the world with that claim attached. Underneath it is the part that matters: what... SA Sarah Chew 18 Sep ASEAN Tech 5 min Indonesia Says X Has No Office There, and May Make Platforms Open One X had locked about 250,000 under-16 accounts against an estimated seven million. Indonesia's minister says pla... SA Sarah Chew 15 Sep Home & Living 4 min Indonesia prints one food date and bans selling past it Indonesian labelling law prescribes a single phrase, "Baik digunakan sebelum" — best used before — and defines... AM Amelia Wong 13 Sep Consumer Tech 7 min A Banking Trojan Now Hides Inside Android's Work Profile The isolation that keeps an employer out of your personal apps also keeps a bank's malware checks away from th... AM Amelia Wong 12 Sep Science 6 min The Oldest Evidence of Habitual Drug Use Rests on Two Sets of Teeth Arecoline in the dental calculus of two Sulawesi hunter-gatherers, 15,000 years apart. Oldest evidence is a st... NA Nadia Rahim 11 Sep ASEAN Tech 6 min A 450MW Batam Deal Is About Half the Island's Generating Capacity Firmus, Nvidia and DayOne plan 360MW and up to 170,000 accelerators at Kabil, on a 450MW supply agreement. Bat... DA Daniel Koh 4 Sep Finance 6 min SBI Buys Access to 20 Million Indonesian Investors. Do They Want Yen? Indonesians earn, spend and save in rupiah, and hold dollars when they hold a stablecoin at all. The question... DA Daniel Koh 31 Aug Business 7 min Fifty of the Seventy-Four Smuggled AI Servers Went Through Indonesia Taiwan indicted nine people, including Nvidia and Super Micro staff, over B300 servers diverted to China. The... EV Eva Chin 26 Aug ASEAN Tech 7 min CoreWeave Is Building 360MW in Indonesia. It Will Own the Compute. Three facilities, 360 megawatts, online in 2028. The buildings will be in Indonesia and the machines inside th... SA Sarah Chew 11 Aug