JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia needs 100 trillion rupiah ($6.11 billion) in additional budget for its free nutritious meals programme to be expanded to reach 82 million recipients, the head of a government agency overseeing the programme said on Friday.

JAKARTA - Dozens of cases of foodborne illness have been recorded among participating schools in multiple regions just two weeks into the launch of President Prabowo Subiantio’s free nutritious meal programme for students.

Indonesia's finance ministry said on Thursday it had issued a regulation to implement the global minimum corporate tax at 15% effective from Jan. 1, as part of an international push to limit tax competition between countries.

Indonesia's central bank unexpectedly cut policy rates on Wednesday, resuming its monetary easing to prop up growth in Southeast Asia's largest economy despite financial market volatility that has sharply weakened the rupiah currency.

With the entry of the ASEAN nation into BRICS+, the organisation accounts for over 40% of Global GDP and an estimated half of the world’s global population

Indonesia will impose interim child protection guidelines on social media companies while the government carves out a law to set a minimum age for users of the platforms, a senior communications ministry official said on Wednesday.

Indonesia has officially joined the Brics group, adding Southeast Asia's largest economy and most populous country to the economic and political bloc founded by Brazil, Russia, India and China in 2009.

Indonesia is defying pressure on the beleaguered rupiah to shore up the country’s slowing economy three months into President Prabowo Subianto’s administration, even as analysts warn the policy moves may backfire.

Indonesia is increasing its palm oil-based content share of its biodiesel from 35 percent to 40 percent this year.

Indonesia’s central bank will probably keep its key interest rate unchanged in its first monetary policy decision this year to avert further declines in the rupiah against a resilient US dollar.

President Prabowo Subianto has initiated a discernible tilt away from regional engagement toward major-power diplomacy.

Indonesia needs 100 trillion rupiah ($6.11 billion) in additional budget to expand its free nutritious meals programme to reach more than a quarter of its population by year-end, the head of the agency overseeing the programme said on Friday.