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Plastic Bottle Museum Raises Worsening Ocean Plastics Crisis
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After Tokyo 2020, Jakarta aims to secure ASEAN’s first Olympics
Even as its national team’s 28 athletes arrived in Tokyo for the pandemic-delayed 2020 Olympic Games last month, Indonesia’s Olympic Committee (KOI) had already...
Indonesia-based Telkomsel invests $300 million more in Gojek
Mobile operator Telkomsel is pouring in an additional $300 million in multi-service platform Gojek in efforts to ramp up the multi-service provider’s business. According to...
Indonesia’s GDP contracts 0.7% in Q1
Indonesia saw its economy slightly contracted by 0.74% year-on-year in the first three months of 2021, which signals its continuing recovery as the government...
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Indonesia has seen a sharp uptick in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to the tune of 14% in the first three months of 2021. FDI...
Grab set for US listing via ‘world’s biggest’ SPAC merger
Grab Holdings Inc., the company behind Southeast Asia's largest ride-hailing and food delivery platform, is set to go public in the U.S. through a...
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