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Stop acting as Australia`s gatekeeper in boat people

Indonesia has been urged to stop acting as the policeman or gatekeeper of Australia in trying to prevent foreign ...

UNRWA Urges Indonesia To Increase Assistance For Palestinian Refugees

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has called on Indonesia to ...

Spying row affects Indonesia`s handling of boat people to Australia

Indonesia has been acting as "the fortress" for shielding Australia from thousands of boat people seeking to reach its ...

Flood kills two in Tangerang

A flood inundated several residential areas and killed two inhabitants of Tangerang City, Banten Province, on ...

Jakarta takes measures against floods

Jakarta is bracing for floods as rains have begun inundating a number of areas in the city of some 10 million ...

Saudi Arabia officially rejects 2-year term on UN Security Council

Saudi Arabia, in an unprecedented moved, formally rejected on Tuesday its two-year term on the UN Security Council, ...

The World Entrepreneurship Forum announces the winners of the 2013 “Entrepreneur for the World” Awards

- Representing four continents, they symbolise the very essence of an entrepreneurship that creates both wealth and ...

Kenya piles pressure on Somali refugees to return home

Kenya on Friday said Somali refugee camps were being used as a safe haven for Islamist militants and said the time had ...

All Mount Sinabung refugees return home

All refugees of Mount Sinabung eruption have been allowed to return home upon the decrease of the North Sumatra ...

More than 30 still missing after australia-bound refugee boat sank-police

More than 30 people were still missing two days after a boat carrying asylum seekers to Australia sank off the ...

Children in conflict situations need access to education

As the global count of children who have access to quality education has increased, an official from the United ...

Bulog distributes 3 tons rice to Mount Sinabung refugees

North Sumatra State Logistics Agency (Bulog) has distributed three tons of rice to aid refugees from the Mount ...

First group of Syrian refugees to be relocated to Germany

With assistance of the UN, a group of more than 100 Syrian refugees will leave Lebanon on Wednesday for temporary ...

Australia Spares No Mercy For Asylum Seekers

In Indonesia, there is an old saying expressing one`s love of country, regardless of problems.  As the saying ...

Tougher immigration policy against illegal asylum seekers

The Australian government has put into effect a stricter immigration policy to prevent more asylum seekers from ...