Kuala Lumpur ( Berita ) :  The Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) and the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) will join forces to make a success of the Malindo Darsasa Exercise to wipe out terrorism at the border between the two countries.

Jakarta ( Berita ) :  President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at his office here on Wednesday chaired a limited cabinet meeting to discuss the recommendations presented by the Team of Eight.

Banda Aceh ( Berita ) :  The port of Sabang in the Sumatran province of Aceh is being prepared to be able to accommodate super tankers and super cargo ships to pass the Strait of Malacca, governor Irwandi Yusuf said.

Banda Aceh ( Berita ) :  Dr John Synott from the Peace and Conflict Study Center of the University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia, said here Friday that art is very important in conflict resolution.

Jakarta ( Berita ) : The ASEAN Secretary General welcomed two more new Ambassadors to ASEAN, namely the Peruvian Ambassador Juan Alvarez Vita, and Canadian Ambassador Mackenzie Clugston, on Friday (6/11).

Jakarta ( Berita ) :  The Secretary-General of ASEAN, expressing concern over the escalation of tensions between Cambodia and Thailand, has appealed to both countries to exercise maximum restraint.

Banda Aceh ( Berita ) :  The religious minister should immediately issue a regulation which bans repeated hajj pilgrimage and to give first-time pilgrims a chance to pay their obligation in the Holy Land, a legislator said. “I think the religious affairs minister should issue the regulation  soon so that first-time hajj pilgrims would not [...]

Jakarta ( Berita ) :  A day after being installed as  Indonesia’s religious affairs minister, Suryadharma Ali on Friday morning (October 23) at the Soekarno-Hatta international airport saw off the first batch of the country’s would-be hajj pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. It was his first problematic task  as the new religious affairs minister in the [...]

Shah Alam, Malaysia (Berita): The national car company Proton Holdings Berhad, Friday (9/10), presented a RM50,000 (US$14,745) contribution in cash and kind to the Malaysian Medical Relief Society (Mercy Malaysia) in support of its mission to help earthquake victims in Padang, Sumatra. Its group managing director, Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir, said the contribution [...]

Jakarta (Berita):  ASEAN’s secretary general has called on the global community to act immediately on climate change issues to save the planet from irreversible damage due to global warming. Referring to the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change report, ASEAN chief Dr Surin Pitsuwan stressed that the cost of action now would only [...]