Indonesia has completed negotiations to establish a travel corridor with Singapore to facilitate urgent diplomatic missions and essential business trips between the two countries amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.

Artificial intelligence could add US$366 billion to Indonesia’s gross domestic product in the next decade and almost $1 trillion in added GDP across Southeast Asia, a recent study has shown.

Investment in Asia Pacific real estate has reached US$125 billion in the first three quarters of 2019, up 10 per cent year-on-year, and is set for another strong year in 2020, says JLL.

JLL’s latest Global Real Estate Transparency Index reveals solid improvement in India, Southeast Asia and Mainland China

Even with the uncertain global outlook, real estate investment opportunities continue to exist in Southeast Asia, according to commercial real estate services provider Colliers International.

In Southeast Asia, Covid-19 has worsened the already grim economic growth in 2019 that resulted from US-China trade tensions and Brexit uncertainties.