This year's "Balikatan" or 'shoulder-to-shoulder' drills also come against the backdrop of what the Philippines calls "aggressive" Chinese actions in the South China Sea.

West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil has set his sights on reelection in the province in 2024 despite rising as a popular choice for the vice presidency in recent public opinion polls.

After a clip of dangdut rocker Rhoma Irama being stopped short from playing “Smoke on the Water” went viral, Rajawali Indonesia music promoter cleared up some misunderstandings.

The state-owned company currently has around 568,000 hectares of oil palm plantation and has a target to produce 3.08 million tons of crude palm oil (CPO) in 2023.

Asia's share markets slid on Tuesday, with financial stocks in Tokyo leading losses as fear of a US banking crisis had investors fleeing the sector and slashing the interest rate outlook even ahead of US inflation data due later in the day.

All of the foie gras in New York is made exclusively in the state of 20 million people, as France no longer exports the controversial delicacy.

The council has said it would decide its stance only after it had received a response from the government and gathered feedback from other Muslim organizations on the team's participation in the 2023 U-20 World Cup, which Indonesia is hosting.

The geothermal sources that make Japan a haven for hot springs or onsen are also used to produce a range of delicacies.

Charles III on Monday attended his first Commonwealth Day service as king, issuing a call for unity to tackle the globe's most pressing issues.

In a short cellular phone video posted by @swetermerah, which has been viewed 832,100 times on Twitter, Rhoma Irama and his Soneta band, started off their opening slot for Deep Purple by performing the now-legendary power chord of "Smoke On The Water" before a member of the road crew jumped on stage and told Rhoma to cut his performance.

If activism takes a million forms, Yanuar Nugroho knows the ins and outs of 999,999 of them.

Frozen in time for 20 years, two superyachts lie at the confluence of Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers, bearing witness to the false glories of former dictator Saddam Hussein.

The announcement came Monday at an event at a San Diego, California, naval base where President Joe Biden hosted Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

China said it will start re-issuing all categories of visas to foreigners from Wednesday, dropping the final cross-border control measure it imposed three years ago to guard against the spread of COVID-19.

Pope Francis marked 10 years as head of the Catholic Church on Monday with a podcast, a private mass and a series of interviews.

Putin has yet to travel beyond the borders of the former Soviet Union since sending his armed forces into Ukraine in February last year, and missed November's G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia.

Oscars television ratings increased for the second year in a row, as 18.7 million viewers tuned in to watch hit sci-fi Everything Everywhere All At Once dominate a well-reviewed ceremony.

Australia's nuclear-powered submarine program with the United States and Britain will cost up to A$368 billion ($245 billion) over the next three decades, a defense official said on Tuesday, the country's biggest single defense item in history.

The head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said Monday she wants to avoid economic dependence on Beijing, but not fully "decouple" the EU's economy from China.

Aquaculture in Indonesia produces more than twice as much fish as captured fisheries. This sector has surged, with production rising from 2.4 million tonnes in 2010 to 6.4 million tonnes in 2019.    

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast on Tuesday, South Korea's military said, the latest of several weapons tests as the South and the United States conduct their largest joint military drills in years.

Arsjad Rasjid, who chairs the ASEAN Business Advisory Council (BAC) this year, says the region could attract investment by positioning itself as an alternative to China.

Responding to reports of bad behavior and criminal activities allegedly committed by Russian and Ukrainian tourists, Bali Governor Wayan Koster has proposed to the Foreign Ministry and the Law and Human Rights Ministry that the visa-on-arrival policy for visitors from those two countries be terminated.

The ruling coalition is reportedly seeking to pair election frontrunners Ganjar Pranowo and Prabowo Subianto for the 2024 presidential race, a political arrangement that, if  it materializes, could concentrate support and decrease the likelihood of a runoff election.

Should ASEAN fail to make concrete progress on Myanmar by the end of the year, it should refer the situation to the UN Security Council, which in December passed its first ever resolution on Myanmar.

With Jokowi set to leave office in October of next year, we are confident that whoever succeeds him will consider China a top diplomatic priority and that Indonesia’s foreign policy will remain largely constant.

Islamic finance principles and tools are very much aligned with SDG values; avoiding excessive speculations, promoting risk-sharing and limiting debt to the value of assets.