TAIPEI / WASHINGTON — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, opened a three-day regional summit without Myanmar, after the country’s ruling junta refused to send a nonpolitical representative to the meeting in place of its top military leader. ASEAN ministers decided on October 15 to exclude Myanmar Senior General
The Ministry of Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration and state-owned electricity company PT PLN (Persero) have agreed to collaborate to meet the electricity needs of all villages to increase the productivity of village-owned enterprises (BUMDes). “If electricity is available in all villages, covering all households in villages, villagers
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) called food waste, resulting from the impact of production, consumption, and climate change, a major challenge for the world’s farming sector in future amid continued population growth globally. “With the populace continuing to increase, it is estimated that the world’s population will reach 10
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA — Southeast Asian leaders began their annual summit without Myanmar on Tuesday amid a diplomatic standoff over the exclusion of the leader of the military-ruled nation from the group’s meetings. Myanmar skipped the summit in protest after the Association of Southeast Asian Nations shut out its top
The Indonesian House of Representatives’ (DPR RI’s) Commission I member Sukamta has urged the parliament to restart deliberations for the Cybersecurity and Resilience Bill after the National Cyber and Crypto Agency (BSSN) website was recently hacked. “The DPR had deliberated on the bill during the last legislative term, yet it
The Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) Commissioner for Education and Indonesia’s Foreign Refugee Task Force Retno Listyarti opined that Indonesia is obliged to fulfill the right to education for child refugees in the country. “We can see the existing legal instruments both internationally and nationally concerning children’s rights to education,