Malang, Indonesia – AFP Hundreds of Indonesians paid tribute Sunday to the victims of a football stadium crush a year ago that killed 135 people in one of the world’s worst sports disasters, while some locals entered the ground and started fires on the pitch. Grieving relatives, survivors and fans gathered for a mass prayer [&helli...
Bangkok, Thailand – – AFP Less than a year after it was announced, a $20 billion bet to wean Indonesia off coal is mired in controversies over financing and the construction of new plants to power industry. The Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) for Indonesia was unveiled last November, as the country hosted the G20 [&hellip...
Jakarta, Indonesia – – AFP Chinese Premier Li Qiang has met Indonesia’s president for talks, agreeing to boost cooperation and trade including expanding imports from Southeast Asia’s biggest economy, Chinese state media reported. Li met with Joko Widodo in the Indonesian capital Jakarta after leaders’ summits this...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The UN chief has pinned hope on the Indonesia, Laos and Malaysia troika on finding a political solution to the Myanmar crisis. “We are strongly hopeful that after Indonesia, with Lao PDR (official name of Laos) and also the Troika – Indonesia, Malaysia and Lao PDR – ASEAN will remain totally committed […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand have signed an agreement to promote the use of local currencies in bilateral transactions. According to a joint statement by Bank Indonesia (BI), Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), and the Bank of Thailand (BOT), three MoUs are signed providing a framework for cooperation to promote bilateral tr...
Bandung, Indonesia – AFP A days-long fire at a landfill in Indonesia’s most populous province has been declared an emergency by local authorities as thick and putrid smoke from the blaze chokes nearby residents, officials said Friday. The fire at the Sarimukti landfill in Indonesia’s West Java province — which serves th...
