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Resolve humanitarian crisis in Rakhine: Indonesian FM

Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi while addressing the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly ...

Minister Marsudi, UN envoy hold discussion on Rohingya repatriation

Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi held a meeting with UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Myanmar ...

Mary Kay, in collaboration with UN Agencies, launches women’s entrepreneurship accelerator

- Today, Mary Kay Inc., a leading advocate of women’s empowerment and entrepreneurship, announced the Women’s ...

Rights activists in Papua urge govt to offer comprehensive solution

Papua Chapter Sem Awom told a press conference on behalf of the KMSP members in Jayapura on Tuesday (Sept 17). The ...

Indonesia says Israel's campaign promise violates international law

Indonesia’s government, at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) extraordinary ministerial meeting in ...

Riau Islands police elite unit's 252 members deployed to Papua

Some 252 personnel of the Riau Islands Police's mobile brigade (Brimob) unit were deployed to Papua and West Papua, ...

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Refugees stare at bleak future after Kalideres Camp closure

An Afghan family-of-six sat on a red-and-blue plastic mat near their tent outdoors at Kalideres refugee camp, West ...

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Refugees stranded for years in Indonesia, feel neglected

Haydee Alnoori, 40, his wife, and five children, one Jakarta-born, demonstrated with Iraqi refugees, brandishing ...

Baswedan puts refugee care onus back on UNHCR, central government

Governor of Jakarta Anies Baswedan has put the onus of refugee care back on the United Nations High Commissioner for ...

Jakarta to cease humanitarian assistance for refugees by August-end

Speaker of the Jakarta provincial parliament Prasetio Edi Marsudi confirmed that the Jakarta administration will put a ...

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Peace diplomacy a priority in Kashmir issue

Nearly four million Kashmiris have been under lockdown with movement restrictions and a near communications blackout ...

Foreign refugees miss celebrating Eid Al-Adha at homes

Several Muslim refugees from Afghanistan and Sudan expressed their yearnings of celebrating Eid Al-Adha (the Islamic ...

Indonesia encourages UNHCR to solve refugee issue

Indonesia is encouraging the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and countries ratifying the 1951 ...

Foreign firms funding Rohingya crisis: UN probe

Dozens of foreign firms originating from Asia and Africa are contributing to the Rohingya humanitarian crisis in ...

Indonesian embassy in Yemen shuts, shifts to Oman

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) signed a decree of temporary closure for security reasons of the Indonesian embassy in ...