With uncertainty still surrounding the course of the global economy this year, Indonesia's major lenders are erring on the side of caution with their 2023 loan targets.

"Event overview maps show that potentially 23 million people are exposed, including around five million vulnerable populations," the World Health Organization's senior emergencies officer Adelheid Marschang said.

In an interview with Reuters on Wednesday, the President revealed his military diplomacy plan to convince junta leader, Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, to learn from Indonesia’s experience after then-president Soeharto ended his 32-year military-backed rule in May 1998 and Indonesia became a fully fledged democracy. Myanmar’s military at the time reportedly learned a lot from Soeharto, including the dual function of the military and the tight restrictions for political parties.

A police spokesperson in Papua province, Sr. Comr. Ignatius Benny Adi Prabowo, said authorities were investigating the incident, with police and military personnel sent to the area to locate the pilot and five passengers. 

The loss compared with the net profit of 29.0 billion yen ($219 million) the firm reported in the same three-month period last year.

For the past decade, Belinda Tanoto has established herself as a leading figure in the philanthropic space, in both Indonesia and beyond. She’s the kind of philanthropist who constantly seeks to challenge her team and herself.

War-torn Syria said that aid sent after the earthquake will reach all its population, even though Damascus does not control all of its territory. 

The companies are due to present reports this week on the measures they have taken to comply with the updated EU code of practice on disinformation which is linked to the online content rules known as the Digital Services Act (DSA) that came into force last November.

Florida lawmakers introduced a bill that would allow the state to take control of the area around Walt Disney World that has until now been controlled by the entertainment giant.

Last month, the Arlington, Virginia-based company announced it would hire 10,000 workers in 2023 after hiring 15,000 people in 2022, but said some support positions would be cut. 

The confirmed death toll across the two countries has soared above 4,300 after a swarm of strong tremors near the Turkey-Syria border -- the largest of which measured at a massive 7.8-magnitude.

- Aug. 14, 2021 - HAITI - A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck southern Haiti, killing more than 2,200 people and destroying or damaging about 13,000 homes.

Asian share markets stabilized somewhat on Tuesday after steep losses in the past 24 hours, while the US dollar remained elevated as investors considered the prospects interest rates would remain higher for longer in many developed economies.

Thousands of Thai army cadets, university students and a handful of volunteers performed a record-breaking Muay Thai "wai khru" ceremony on Monday.

Google said it will release a conversational chatbot named Bard, setting up an A.I. showdown with Microsoft which has invested billions in the creators of ChatGPT.

The R&B singer, songwriter, and producer's freshman album Empat Puluh finds the 40-year-old saluting his roots and the music that shaped him.

British author Salman Rushdie said he finds it "very difficult" to write after being stabbed last year.

The release in November of ChatGPT, which uses artificial intelligence to convincingly mimic human writing, has sparked concerns in schools worldwide of a looming cheating epidemic.

TikTok took down all things related to "ngemis online," in which people perform tricks for money, from their platform at the request of the Communications and Information Ministry.

As we enter the fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic some quarters are of the view that the pandemic is over. In a recent report, the Indonesian government indicated that it would declare the end of the pandemic after consultation with the World Health Organization (WHO).

The 7.8 magnitude earthquake sent people rushing into the streets in the country's north, where air strikes and shelling have already traumatised the population and weakened the foundations of many buildings.

Indonesia’s economy recovered strongly last year amid global shocks and high inflation pressures to reach the highest growth rate since 2014. 

We remember him as the ‘’friend’’ from Australia who tried very hard to be a ‘’friend’’ to not only Indonesia, but also all our regional neighbors as well as Southeast Asia as a whole, through his indelible influence on Australia's foreign policy.

The country's largest Muslim organization prepares to mark its centenary with a Civilization Congress, seeking to legitimize and incorporate human rights within its ideological fold.

The government has flipped the script on its recent poor showing on the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), using it as an excuse to rally support for the controversial Job Creation Law as a means of eliminating red tape.

The 7.8-magnitude night-time tremor, followed hours later by a slightly smaller one, wiped out entire sections of major Turkish cities in a region filled with millions of people who have fled the civil war in Syria and other conflicts.

If Jakarta and its satellite cities continue on the current path of haphazard, uncoordinated and reckless urbanization, this highly populated megapolis will become progressively more unsustainable.