https://www.scmp.com/rss/502201/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Southeast Asia’s largest economy and democracy is approaching a demographic shift. In the next 10 years, almost half of Indonesia’s population will enter the work force. Only three in 10 people will not be of working age by 2030. Conventional poverty rates are declining, millions are moving into cities each year. The island nation’s labour force will surge, and with it, disposable income and energy demands. The picture is similar elsewhere in Southeast Asia, but while its neighbours have spent... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3048788/asias-next-clean-energy-battle-isnt-china-or-india-its?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3048788/asias-next-clean-energy-battle-isnt-china-or-india-its?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Feb 2020 02:00:18 +0000 Harry Gobel’s first homestay in his native Gorontalo, a province in eastern Indonesia, was so popular that the local government repeatedly got him to lead training sessions on running this class of low-budget guest accommodation. But then suddenly things changed and a year ago officials told him to shut down his homestay operation. Gobel and his wife Mimin had been hosting foreign tourists in their home for more than a decade when the government ordered them to close their doors. Locals had... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3038346/how-indonesias-homestays-give-authentic-local-experiences?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3038346/how-indonesias-homestays-give-authentic-local-experiences?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 20 Nov 2019 04:15:15 +0000 Activists and lawyers for the families of two university students who died of injuries sustained during last month’s mass protests against new laws in Indonesia have urged President Joko Widodo to launch an independent investigation into police conduct. They say that at least one of the men died from a shot fired by police in the city of Kendari, southeast Sulawesi, and that officers had violated a code of ethics that bans them from bringing firearms to demonstrations. Sukhdar, a lawyer for the... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3033116/calls-mount-probe-police-over-student-deaths-during-indonesia?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3033116/calls-mount-probe-police-over-student-deaths-during-indonesia?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Oct 2019 03:00:19 +0000 In the summer of 2018, Indonesian tourism minister Arief Yahya made a visit to Palu, a city nestled in a long, narrow bay on the island of Sulawesi. He called on the city to leverage its unique location and open its airport to international flights. Local tourism officials were excited. A few months later, however, on September 28, the year’s deadliest earthquake collapsed the air traffic control tower, killing a man whose last act was to hasten the take-off of Palu’s last flight before the... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3030249/dark-tourism-draw-indonesian-earthquake-city-where-mud?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3030249/dark-tourism-draw-indonesian-earthquake-city-where-mud?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Sep 2019 04:45:14 +0000