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Yesterday, Indonesia’s Tourism Minister Sandiaga Uno announced that the country is considering granting visa-free entry to citizens of 20 countries in order to deliver a jolt to the country’s economy and tourist sector. According to a report by Reuters, the ministry has not finalized the list of countries to be included in the scheme, but that it will likely include the United States, China, Australia, India, South Korea, Germany, the United Kingdom, and France. Like many nations in Southeast Asia, Indonesia has yet fully to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, which sent the country’s tourist sector into freefall. More than…
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman is the first person to get an Indonesian golden visa as Southeast Asia’s largest economy seeks to draw foreign investors. The country’s immigration authority issued a 10-year visa for Altman as he “has an international reputation and may bring benefits to Indonesia,” said Immigration Director General Silmy Karim in a statement. The co-founder of the ChatGPT creator would enjoy priority security screening at airports, longer stay periods and easier entry and exit processes, among other perks. Source link
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TikTok will suspend its online-retail operation in Indonesia from Wednesday to comply with curbs on social commerce, a big setback for the Chinese-owned startup in one of its fastest-growing markets.The company will stop facilitating e-commerce transactions on TikTok Shop Indonesia from 5 p.m. Jakarta time on Oct. 4, it said in a statement Tuesday. The company said that its priority is to remain compliant with laws and regulations and that it will coordinate with the Indonesian government for its next steps. Source link
Home » AIRLINE NEWS » Here is how Indonesia Aero Summit 2024 to become a landmark event for airline industry leaders and professionals Saturday, June 29, 2024Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Indonesia Aero Summit 2024 is set to be a landmark event for the aviation industry, taking place on July 2-3 in Jakarta, Indonesia. This premier MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) event will gather aviation professionals, industry leaders, and enthusiasts from around the globe to explore the latest trends, innovations, and developments in the aviation sector. With a focus on tourism, travel, and international travel, the summit promises to be…
July 16, 2024Information hallMobile Security / Internet Security Details have emerged of a “massive ad fraud operation” using hundreds of apps on the Google Play Store to carry out a host of nefarious activities. The company received a code name Confetti – the Russian word for Candy – due to abuse of a mobile advertising software kit (SDK) linked to a Russian ad network called CaramelAds. “Konfety represents a new form of fraud and obfuscation in which threat actors operate ‘evil twin’ versions of decoy programs available in major markets,” Satori Threat Intelligence Team HUMAN said in a technical the…
The tariff will threaten Russian producers. Credit: Kamilpetran/Shutterstock.com. The Indonesian government, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and independent power producer Cirebon Electric Power (CEP) have entered a nonbinding framework agreement to shut down a 660MW coal-fired power plant almost seven years ahead of schedule. Signed at the COP28 summit in Dubai, UAE, the agreement forms part of ADB’s Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) programme. ADB, the Indonesian state-owned power utility PLN, CEP and the Indonesia Investment Authority (INA) will shorten the life of Cirebon-1 from its original closure date of July 2042 to December 2035. The companies have also agreed to…
Travellers look at the flight departure schedule on the screen at Singapore Changi airport on December 7, 2022. Roslan Rahman | Afp | Getty ImagesInternational tourist arrivals to Singapore more than doubled in 2023, surging to 13.6 million compared to 2022’s figure of 6.3 million.The Singapore Tourism Board said this in line with its forecast, and was at 71% of 2019 levels, the last full year before the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country.Indonesia topped the ranking for the most amount of tourists to Singapore at 2.3 million, followed by China and Malaysia at 1.4 million and 1.1 million respectively, according to…
July 16, 2024Information hallData Security / Vulnerability Call the Advanced Persistent Threat Team (APT). Banshee Void has been seen using a newly discovered security flaw in Microsoft’s MHTML browser engine as a zero-day to deliver an information stealer called Atlantis. Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, which monitored this activity in mid-May 2024, tracked the vulnerability as CVE-2024-38112 – was used as part of a multi-stage attack chain using specially crafted Internet Shortcut (URL) files. “Atlantida variants were very active during 2024 and evolved to exploit CVE-2024-38112 as part of the Void Banshee infection chains,” security researchers Peter Girnus and Aliakbar Zagrawi…
Indonesia is determined to capitalize on the green industries of tomorrow, but its path to success is being complicated by the reemergence of industrial policy and economic protectionism.The recent imposition of tariffs by the U.S. and European Union on electric vehicle exports from China is the latest sign of increasing geoeconomic fragmentation, especially when it comes to green technologies.Emerging economies like Indonesia risk being collateral damage. Trying to become a global player in a new industry is difficult at the best of times. Doing so in an industry that has become a flagship of growing technology competition between major powers will be…