Nahdlatul Ulama's central executive board is set to discuss the legitimacy of the United Nations Charter from the perspective of Islamic jurisprudence in an international congress on Monday.

Indeed, for the last several years Russia became an indispensable actor in the Asia-Pacific. Our ASEAN friends understand and appreciate a constructive stabilizing role of Russia with no hidden agenda in the region. Our philosophies of international relations, based on the principle of sovereign equality of nations, are similar. We have never lectured our ASEAN partners or tried to impose on them our values while respecting each other’s culture, history, traditions and aspirations.

Local streaming platform Vidio reveals 15 original series that will be released in the first leg of 2023.

Speaking in a recorded video speech delivered for the 15th anniversary of the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra), President Jokowi, who in the past weeks has made statements praising the party's chairman Prabowo Subianto, said that the prospect looked bright for Gerindra in 2024.

Like much of the world, Nablus is attuned to digital music, but Hemmou told AFP working with vinyl was about preserving Palestinian "heritage".

She clinched the title by winning the Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Music Album for her smash "Renaissance," thus surpassing the late classical conductor Georg Solti, who had 31 awards.

The aircraft, which Washington said was a spy balloon, had spent several days flying over North America, leading the United States to call off a planned visit to Beijing by Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Locals officials said five people died in the province of Osmaniye and 10 more in Sanliurfa, which sits near Turkey's border with Syria.

Asian markets mostly fell Monday and the dollar extended gains after a forecast-busting US jobs report fanned expectations of more Federal Reserve interest rate hikes.

Since late 2021, Europe has been gripped by its worst-ever outbreak of bird flu, with North and South America also experiencing severe outbreaks.

The quake struck at 04:17 am local time (0117 GMT) at a depth of about 17.9 kilometres (11 miles), the US agency said, with a 6.7-magnitude aftershock striking 15 minutes later.

Both social media usage and disinformation tactics show rising trends. The 2022 Young Voters survey report from the Jakarta-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) expounded that social media progressively becomes the most-preferred medium for political expression and the primary source of information for the youth, who will also be the majority in next year’s election (54 percent).

Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the largest Muslim organization in Indonesia with over 50 million members, began Sunday discussion sessions for the first International Congress on Islamic Jurisprudence of Civilization focusing on reviewing the United Nations Charter from Islamic laws in Surabaya, East Java.

The government is facing a catch-22 situation in managing its haj finances.

Despite weeks of speculation that President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo would dismiss NasDem ministers from the Cabinet in response to the party’s 2024 electoral posture, no announcement of the sort has come from Merdeka Palace.

The Bali provincial administration has planned to limit tourists' access to the mountains, saying that tourism activities have harmed their sacredness.

The European Union says that its upcoming regulation on deforestation and forest degradation is not seeking a ban on a particular country or commodity but a call for a sustainable chain supply that is free from deforestation.

Kaesang Pangarep, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s youngest son, is planning to embark on a political career, following in the footsteps of his father, older brother Gibran Rakabuming Raka and brother-in-law Bobby Nasution.

The ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat wrapped up in Jakarta on Saturday, with a proposal from Indonesia to implement a five-point peace plan for Myanmar and to resume negotiations for the Code of Conduct (COC) in the South China Sea.

The Trade Ministry plans to change the rules on e-commerce in a move aimed at protecting local manufacturers of consumer goods against competition from abroad.

For the first time since Catholicism took root in Papua over a century ago, the Jayapura Diocese will be headed by a native Papuan, monsignor Yanuarius Theofilus Matopai You. His appointment brings hope that a native Papuan in a position of leadership in the Catholic church can help ease tensions in the region.

Former British prime minister Boris Johnson, speaking to the BBC for a documentary early this week, said the Russian leader had threatened him with a missile strike that would "only take a minute." The Kremlin said Johnson was lying.

The deployment to US forces in Japan may include long-range hypersonic weapons and Tomahawks, the newspaper reported, adding without citing sources that Tokyo is poised to start serious discussion toward accepting the deployment.

How do we go from protecting eight percent of marine areas to 30 percent in less than 10 years? This question is at the heart of a global forum in Canada this weekend.

This year’s first round of negotiations for the Code of Conduct (COC) at the South China Sea will commence in March, said the Foreign Ministry on Friday, where Indonesia as ASEAN chairman will lead efforts to “explore new approaches” in navigating the increasingly “destabilized” region. 

The reaction in the United States to what appears to be an ill-timed spying mission will have lingering consequences for efforts to stabilize ties – already near historic lows. Some US lawmakers are demanding that President Joe Biden, a Democrat, hold China to account for what officials are calling an unacceptable violation of US sovereignty.

As devastating storms pounded California, nature lovers feared for endangered monarch butterflies that winter there as part of a seemingly magical migration pattern.