News Indonesia Riau Islands: Riau Islands urges forex traders to sustain transactional stability
The governor has called on local businesses engaged in foreign exchange trading to exercise integrity so as to maintain investment and tourism flows into the strategic border region.
News Indonesia Riau Islands: U.S’s Supported Multinational Small Boat Training Wraps Up in Batam
A multinational Small Boat Operator Instructor Development Course (SBO-IDC) concluded in Batam, Riau Islands, on January 30, 2026.
News Indonesia Riau Islands: Indonesian governor latest official busted for bribes in environmental case
Banner image of islets in Riau Islands province by Axel Drainville via Flickr. This story was first reported by Mongabay’s Indonesia team and published here on our Indonesian site on July ...
News Indonesia Riau Islands: Indonesia's seas to have more plastics than fish by 2030: Minister
Surely we don't want to [catch] plastics from the sea," Susi told reporters during her visit to Anambas regency, Riau Islands, as quoted by Antara news agency on Saturday. Susi was concerned of the ...
News Indonesia Riau Islands: Indonesia Promotes Nomadic Tourism to Chinese Tourists
BINTAN, NETRALNEWS.COM - The concept of luxury camping typical of "nomadic tourism" offered by The Canopi Bintan in Riau Islands (Riau Islands ... because of the concept of Nomadic Tourism. Indonesia ...
News Indonesia Riau Islands: Multi-Million Contract Awarded to Blockchain Firm PLMP Fintech to Reshape Indonesia's Logistics Sector
SINGAPORE , May 29, 2019 /CNW/ -- Singaporean blockchain company PLMP Fintech has signed an MOU this afternoon with the Agency for Free Trade Zone and Free Port of Batam and Indonesian firm Central Distribusi Batam for the development of a multi-million project in partnership with the Ministry of Trade
News Indonesia Riau Islands: Press Metal eyes stake in Indonesian company
KUCHING: Press Metal Aluminium Holdings Bhd (PMetal) plans to acquire a 25% stake in PT Bintan Alumina Indonesia (PT BAI),which is currently constructing a one-million tonne alumina refinery plant in Galang Batang, located in the Riau Islands province of Indonesia.
News Indonesia Riau Islands: Toxic waste containers pile up at Batam seaport
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK)- At least 60 shipping containers carrying hazardous and toxic waste (B3) have been piling up at Batu Ampar port in Batam, Riau islands, for five months since it was discovered that an earlier shipment to Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, had contained waste from foreign countries.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
News Indonesia Riau Islands: Capital ideas
Closer to home, he pointed out that some regional governments in Indonesia have relocated their provincial capitals. Riau Islands province off Sumatra, just next door to Singapore, relocated its ...
News Indonesia Riau Islands: North Sumatra port to welcome more passengers amid high domestic airfares
Last year, Batam in Riau Islands, was the most popular destination for ship passengers ... the head of the Medan Begawan branch of state-owned ship operator PT Pelayaran Nasional Indonesia (Pelni), ...
News Indonesia Riau Islands: Amid changing climate, strategies needed to protect Indonesian islands from sea level rise
Indonesia possesses more than 10,000 small islands ... Karimunjawa in Central Java, Pengalap Riau as well as atoll islands as found in Takabonerate in South Sulawesi, very popular among travelers, ...
News Indonesia Riau Islands: Indonesia election: Why one vote could put a thousand Indonesias at stake
Dari Riau, Sumatera Barat ... and attempted to unify these islands into one country. With more Muslims here than anywhere else, Indonesia could have - after independence - chosen the path of an ...
News Indonesia Riau Islands: IMDEX 2019: Indonesia orders additional LSTs
Indonesia’s MoD ordered the 8th and 9th Teluk Bintuni-class ... formal names assigned once they have been built at the shipyard located in Batam in the Riau Islands. This contract is the first for PT ...
News Indonesia Riau Islands: Explosion Injures Two at Indonesian Shipyard
On Wednesday, an explosion and fire occurred aboard a tanker during repairs at a shipyard in the Riau Islands ... Ocean Shipyard (MOS) on Indonesia's Karimunbesar Island. Sparks from the welding ...
News Indonesia Riau Islands: Indonesia electricity chief charged with bribery over coal-fired power plant
Indonesian anti-graft investigators have charged the head of state-owned power utility PLN, Sofyan Basir, with bribery in connection to a coal-fired plant on the island of Sumatra. Sofyan was ...