By 1700, global trade was deeply entrenched in colonial expansion, financial innovation, and the increasing demand for luxury and staple goods.

Last week in Maumere, in Indonesia’s Flores island, the Catholic Church came under fire for reclaiming Indigenous people's ...

Beyond its role as a key economic driver for Indonesia, palm oil (Elaeis guineensis) holds untapped potential that often goes ...

I would like to refer briefly also to two other domestic issues of significant importance, namely the land and housing reform, and the nationalization of the plantations. Land reform was ultimately a ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Rescuers have retrieved two more bodies as they resumed their search for people missing after floods and ...

The Netherlands expects President Donald Trump to keep pressing to restrict ASML Holding NV’s exports of chip-making machines to China, according to Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof. “The ...

The proposal has raised concerns that more forest areas would be cleared to pave ways for oil palm plantations -- Indonesia's top export commodity and one of the key deforestation drivers in the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this photo released by Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), rescuers carry the body ...

But the plan, which will affect an area nearly twice the size of Indonesia's main Java island, contradicts the government's food and energy security goals, the Clean Transition Coalition of ...

Almost 70 percent of Indonesia's oil palm plantations are located on Sumatra where the industry was started during the Dutch colonial days. The remainder - around 30 percent - is largely found on the ...

Almost 70 percent of Indonesia's oil palm plantations are located on Sumatra where the industry was started during the Dutch colonial days. The remainder - around 30 percent - is largely found on the ...