Indonesia's Batam immigration office is promoting a seven-day Visa on Arrival for foreign tourists on short visits to Batam ...

The Riau Islands provincial capital of Tanjungpingan is not a rice producing city but managed to send rice to South Sumatra's capital of Palembang, which enjoyed a surplus of 1.5 million tonnes of ...

The governor has called on local businesses engaged in foreign exchange trading to exercise integrity so as to maintain ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Statistics Indonesia (BPS) data showed a surge in foreign visitors to Riau Islands in 11 months of 2025, said Hasan, the head of Riau Islands Tourism Office. As of November 2025, ...

Developers are moving fast to meet Singapore’s clean energy needs by establishing overseas solar-plus-storage plants, with a strong focus on facilities in neighboring Indonesia. Singaporean clean ...

The MoU covers the availability of 3,000 hectares of land for Sunseap to build solar energy plants and energy storage systems (ESS). Sunseap has conducted surveys, location mappings, technical ...

WWF-Indonesia records a high frequency in forest fires in Riau, with the majority located in plantation areas. Fogs threaten both the community’s health and the biodiversity. Jakarta, Indonesia - ...

BATAM, Indonesia (Bernama-ANTARA): The Riau Islands Representative Office of Bank Indonesia (BI) has designated Belakang Padang Island in Batam City as a frontier icon of Indonesia's digital economy, ...

The policy is meant to ensure the security, safety, order and smoothness of traffic in the Riau Islands region. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Three local officials, including a governor, have been arrested and charged for allegedly taking bribes in a land reclamation project. The businessman behind the project in Sumatra’s Riau Islands, who ...

A recently completed floating PV plant from Sunseap in Singapore. Sunseap. Solar and energy storage projects worth gigawatts of generation and storage capacity have advanced on Indonesia’s Riau ...