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19 June 2025 (closed)
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The Today's Headlines section of Indonesia Investments is a regularly updated section which contains the latest information with regard to topics that are currently causing headlines in Indonesia's media. Most of our headlines cover political, economic and social matters. As a consequence of their recent nature, these topics may not have crystallized fully yet and can, therefore, lack a profound analysis. For publications with a more in-depth understanding of subjects, we refer you to our News, Financial or Business columns.
Ever since the second half of 2023 car sales in Indonesia have been quite disappointing. While in recent years Indonesia had become used to seeing more than one million cars being sold across the country per year (excluding the COVID-19 crisis period), sales now seem to have stabilized around 850,000 units per year in the 2024-2025 period.
Analysts feel that the cryptocurrency market in Indonesia can get a wave of fresh air now that the supervision of crypto trading in Indonesia was transferred from the Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency (Bappebti) to Indonesia's central bank (Bank Indonesia) and the Financial Services Authority (OJK) per 10 January 2025.
On Monday 6 January 2025, it was announced by Brazil - which currently holds Chairmanship - that Indonesia has officially become a full member of the BRICS bloc, an intergovernmental organization that is considered an alternative to the G7 bloc.
On 7 January 2025, a delegation of US multinational technology company Apple Inc. visited Indonesia to discuss the company's investment plans in Southeast Asia's largest economy. This is assumed to involve two matters: the recent iPhone 16 sales ban in Indonesia, and the construction of a USD $1 billion AirTag factory in Batam (near Singapore).
