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INDONESIA

ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 11, 2016
Indonesia to execute convicts, including foreigners: attorney general
Indonesia will execute "more than two" convicts this year, the attorney general said on Monday. They will include foreigners, he said.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 10, 2016
Gunmen kidnap three Indonesians off Sabah
Gunmen kidnapped three Indonesian tugboat crew off Malaysia's eastern state of Sabah, police said Sunday, the latest in a string of abductions in a region noted for kidnappings by Islamist militants.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jun 29, 2016
Southeast Asian fires emitted the most carbon last year since 1997, topped entire EU output
Forest fires that blanketed Southeast Asia in thick haze last year released the greatest amount of climate-changing carbon since the record blazes in 1997, producing emissions higher than in the whole of the European Union, scientists said on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 24, 2016
Seven Indonesian sailors kidnapped in Philippines: Jakarta
Seven Indonesian sailors have been taken hostage in the Sulu Sea in the southern Philippines, Indonesia's foreign minister said on Friday, the latest in a string of abductions in the waters between the two Southeast Asian neighbors.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 23, 2016
Indonesia leader, top execs visit Natuna isles in warship
Indonesia's president visited the Natuna Islands aboard a warship Thursday, making a bold move to assert sovereignty over the area in the southern reaches of the South China Sea after Beijing stated an "overlapping claim" on nearby waters.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 20, 2016
Trump's Muslim comments may spark retaliation: Indonesian vice president
Indonesia's vice president on Monday voiced concerns over U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump's comments on Muslims, saying "discrimination according to religion" could prompt retaliatory policies from other countries.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 5, 2016
Rusty ships and unused aircraft carriers: the other side of Asia's militaries
As China spends billions to upgrade and reorganize the People's Liberation Army, the deficiencies in competing Asia-Pacific militaries are coming into focus. Even some of China's much heralded military advances are drawing attention for their shortcomings. Here is a snapshot of some of Asia's less illustrious...
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 27, 2016
China, Indonesia to boost security ties despite spat in South China Sea
Chinese and Indonesian officials pledged to boost security ties, marine cooperation and infrastructure investment, state media reported on Tuesday, after a diplomatic spat over what Indonesia called a breach of its sovereignty by the Chinese Coast Guard.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 19, 2016
Indonesia calls for joint regional maritime patrols after kidnappings
Indonesia has called for joint maritime patrols with the Philippines and Malaysia, a military spokesman said Tuesday, after a spate of kidnappings in waters near the southern Philippines by suspected militants.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Apr 4, 2016
As Indonesian forests burn, new anti-fire agency feels the heat
As forest fires raged like never before across Indonesia last year, President Joko Widodo announced he was setting up a special agency to tackle the annual scourge that shrouds parts of Southeast Asia in choking haze.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 1, 2016
Indonesia to deploy F-16s to guard South China Sea territory
Indonesia will deploy U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets to the Natuna Islands to ward off "thieves," the defense minister said less than two weeks after Chinese coast guard vessels clashed with an Indonesian boat in the area.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 29, 2016
Abu Sayyaf abducts 10 Indonesian sailors aboard tug off Malaysia
Ten Indonesian crew members on board a tugboat were kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf militants in the Philippines over the weekend, officials in Manila said late on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 23, 2016
Australia's Turnbull calls Beijing's moves in South China Sea 'counterproductive'
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Wednesday called China's military deployments on the South China Sea "counterproductive," an unusually forceful rebuke against the country's biggest trading partner.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 21, 2016
Indonesia says it feels peace efforts on South China Sea 'sabotaged' after maritime row with Beijing
Indonesia "feels sabotaged" in its efforts to maintain peace in the disputed South China Sea and may bring its latest maritime altercation with China to an international court, a minister said Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 15, 2016
Without naming names, Japan video showcases effort to halt China maritime expansion
The Foreign Ministry releases a video highlighting Tokyo's own measures to help Southeast Asian nations match Beijing's maritime muscle.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 9, 2016
Trump's luxury hotels in Indonesia could face backlash over his anti-Muslim remarks
Few villagers living near a half-built golf course in Indonesia's West Java province know the name Donald Trump, and fewer still are aware that one of his firms will be managing a six-star hotel and luxury resort in their backyard.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 3, 2016
Indonesia's early tsunami warning buoys down when big quake hit
All 22 of the early-warning buoys Indonesia that were deployed after the 2004 tsunami disaster were inoperable when a massive undersea earthquake struck off the country's coast on Wednesday, a national disaster mitigation agency official said.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 3, 2016
Massive 7.9 magnitude quake strikes Sumatra's west coast
A massive and shallow earthquake struck on Wednesday off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, a region devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean quake and tsunami, and there were early reports of deaths.
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 29, 2016
Indonesia demolishes capital's largest red-light district
Bulldozers started demolishing hundreds of buildings in the Indonesian capital's largest red-light district on Monday as part of a nationwide effort to eradicate prostitution in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation.
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 29, 2016
Indonesia to tighten anti-graft law
Indonesia's government will back controversial revisions to the law governing its top anti-graft agency, a senior cabinet minister said in a statement on Monday.

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers