Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a patriotic concert dedicated to the upcoming Defender of the Fatherland Day at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow on Feb. 22, 2023.

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Lesson learned from the kidnapping in Papua

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China and ASEAN: Cooperating to build an epicentrum of growth

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Building grassroots Australia-Indonesia ties

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How Indonesia is facing a huge loss in its fishery and coal trade

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