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21 illegal immigrants from Afghanistan caught in Jambi

Twenty one illegal immigrants from Afghanistan caught by police in Jambi, Sumatra, on Friday are being accommodated at ...

Ban arrives in China for high-level talks

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for high-level talks with Chinese officials ...

Indonesia asks UNSC resolve Syrian crisis

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has asked the permanent member states of the United Nations Security ...

UN rights team believes chemical weapons used in Syria

United Nations human rights investigators said on Tuesday they had "reasonable grounds" to believe that limited ...

Illegal immigrants from Iran detained in Bali`s hotels

At least 95 illegal immigrants from Iran arrested in the sea off Benoa, Bali, on Sunday , have been detained in a ...

Yudhoyono urges Myanmar to continue reconciliation on Rohingya

Visiting Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono met with Myanmar President U Thein Sein in the Myanmar ...

Do not sacrifice people for electoral competition sake: President

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has asked the political elite to not sacrifice the people for the sake of upcoming ...

Yudhoyono to raise Rohingya issue in talk with Myanmar leader

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he would raise the sensitive ethnic issue of Muslim Rohingya community in ...

Sampang police detain 76 Rohingya refugees

Sampang police detained 76 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in Tanglok seaport, Madura Island, East Java Province, on ...

South Korea court jails North spy for China activities

A South Korean court on Friday sentenced a convicted North Korean spy to four years in prison for collecting ...

Red Cross appeals for $43mn for war-hit Mali

The Red Cross has appealed for an additional $43 million to help hundreds of thousands of people in war-torn Mali, and ...

Asylum seekers in Medan wish to be sent to Australia

Asylum seekers including the Rohingyas from Myanmar now being accommodated in Medan, North Sumatra, have asked for ...

Spill-over effects of Rohingya issue on Indonesia

As the tension has escalated in Myanmar due to sectarian conflicts between two different ethnic groups, more refugees ...

Indonesia to prevent Rohingya conflict to spread

Indonesia will take necessary measures to prevent the horizontal conflict in Myanmar from spreading to other ASEAN ...

Indonesia Emphasizes "Prevention, Detection and Protection" To Tackle People Smuggling

Indonesia and Australia have agreed that people smuggling and trafficking in persons are complex and multidimensional ...