Indonesia

In order to maximise the use of its terminals in Jakarta, the airport authorities have followed the injunction of Public Enterprises Minister Erik Thohir to rebalance traffic flows. This will be the third time in a decade that a large number of airlines have changed terminals. The last one was in 2023 when AirAsia, Batik Air...

Forever the first. And probably for some time to come. Swissôtel Nusantara is the first hotel to open its doors in the new Indonesian capital, which was inaugurated on 17 August. The celebration of the 79th anniversary of the country's independence gave President Joko Widodo the opportunity to put flesh on the bones of his...

No more transiting through Singapore or Kuala Lumpur to go directly to Palembang, the major economic centre of South Sumatra with its million and a half inhabitants. Or to Semarang, the capital of Central Java and a major trading port. From now on, business travellers going to these two cities will have to transit via Jakarta, possibly...

Indonesia, despite its 250 million inhabitants, its enormous natural resources in gas, nickel and rubber among others, and its economic growth of more than 5%, is a dwarf in international air transport. Before Covid, the country carried almost 140 million passengers a year. Since the end of the pandemic, the...

AUSTRALIA Melbourne 1 Hotel Melbourne (2024)Set on the banks of the Yarra River, this new hotel embodies the arty, eco-friendly spirit of the 1 Hotels chain. By way of regeneration, the luxury brand launched by former Starwood boss Barry Sternlicht is taking part in the Seafarers project. In other words, the metamorphosis of a former industrial...

The Mercure Tokyo Haneda Airport has just opened its doors, becoming the first international chain hotel close to the runways of Haneda airport, the departure point for many domestic flights and increasingly for international routes due to its greater proximity to the centre of the Japanese capital....

Whoosh! That's certainly the sound the new high-speed train makes as it travels through the Javanese countryside between Jakarta and Bandung. But what sounds like onomatopoeia is in fact the abbreviation given to the Indonesian high-speed train. "Waktu Hemat, Operasi Optimal, Sistem Handal" means "time saving, optimal operation, reliable system" ....

A new administrative capital in Egypt to replace Cairo, the new city of Diamniadio to relieve traffic congestion in Dakar, Senegal: all over the world, the trend is to duplicate cities to give overcrowded metropolises a little breathing space. Indonesia is no exception, as Jakarta, overcrowded, over-polluted and regularly submerged by floods, is becoming...

Present in many German cities, as well as Paris, Florence and Copenhagen, 25Hours is continuing its expansion outside Europe. After Dubai, the lifestyle brand will be setting up in Jakarta by the end of the year. To make its entry into the Indonesian capital, the brand created by Christoph Hoffman and gradually absorbed by Accor from the beginning of...

While the G20 foreign ministers recently met in Bali, Indonesia - pending the arrival of the heads of state on the island in November - all these high-ranking figures passing through Jakarta will find a new hotel worthy of their status. The Indonesian capital has...

On one side is Jakarta, Indonesia's sprawling capital, home to 13 million inhabitants and all the country's ministries, institutions, banks and corporate headquarters. On the other, 150 km away, is Bandung, Indonesia's third-largest city with 2.5 million inhabitants. The capital of West Java province, Bandung is the country's leading university centre. A city where creative industries...

At the end of last week, the national carrier Garuda Indonesia said it had once again had to defer payment of a $500 million sukuk (a sukuk is an interest-free bond issued in accordance with Islamic rules). Garuda Indonesia explains that it is defaulting because it continues to be heavily affected by the...

The ASEAN region is the equivalent in principle of the European Union. It is a vast economic zone comprising ten countries in South East Asia. Originally, it consisted of a core group comprising Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Singapore. At the time, the association was set up primarily to deal with the threat...

Imagine if the French government decided to combine Air France, Aéroports de Paris, the Campanile hotel chain and SETE, which manages the Eiffel Tower, into a single holding company. This would be seen as an economic aberration and, of course, the creation of a monopoly. This is exactly what the government is doing...

It's a tradition in the Asia-Pacific region, and not a new one. As far back as 1911, the British Crown built a new city, called New Delhi, which became the political centre of British India. Around the same time, the British created Canberra in Australia. This was followed by Islamabad in Pakistan, which replaced Karachi as the...

This is Garuda Indonesia's ninth timetable change in Europe this year, effective from October 1. The previous eight changes affected the Jakarta-London route, which was cancelled twice, offered with a stopover in Amsterdam, then transformed into a Bali-Jakarta route, and finally transformed into a flight...

While Garuda Indonesia has long toyed with the idea of spreading its wings to Europe, the two routes currently served by the airline - Amsterdam-Jakarta and London-Denpasar-Jakarta - are to undergo a sharp reduction in capacity. Flights to London have been suspended. The three weekly flights offered by the airline are no longer open to...

With its beautiful resorts established in the middle of a tea plantation in China, in the heart of a fort in India, at the top of the mountains of Oman, on the edge of the luxuriant beaches of the Maldives or Bali and more recently on the edge of the Pacific, at Big Sur in California, Alila has become the specialist in intimate and...

With a bit of luck, you can cover the 35 km between Jakarta's business centre and Soekarno-Hatta international airport in just one hour. But very often it takes a good hour and a half or more to get to the airport. There is light at the end of the tunnel, however, as the airport is inaugurating its...