As investment in the Southeast Asian nation ramps up, these firms are facing challenges including disputes with local communities over land as well as perceptions they are hiring too many Chinese workers.
Superstitious beliefs are still common in the world’s most populous Muslim nation, where footage of a ‘babi ngepet’ being slaughtered recently went viral.
Local residents who found a meteorite that crashed to earth in southern Sumatra Island put it into a tub of water, hoping its bottled essence would cure their ailments.
After three children went missing in North Sumatra, shamans flocked to their village to perform rituals to find them. But the police and even local spirits are unhappy.
Josua Hutagalung of North Sumatra has gone into hiding after multiple international media outlets reported the hunk of space rock he found was worth US$1.7 million.
Thousands have been arrested in violent protests against the new job creation law, as Indonesian President Joko Widodo said demonstrators are being driven by disinformation.