Half a century after North Vietnamese troops marched on Saigon, the US is vanishing from the diplomatic landscape of Southeast Asia as the White House’s erratic policies undermine regional stability.
A palace briefing has exposed a power struggle between Jokowi loyalists within the President’s inner circle and military powerbrokers intent on winding back the clock.
Vladimir Putin’s top envoy to Indonesia says Russia views Australia as a ‘non-friendly state’ that sanctions its President.
The Modi government is under intense pressure to retaliate, but how far it is prepared to go to satisfy public fury over the killings — and how Pakistan retaliates — are now pressing questions.
China says Manila’s decision to ease longstanding restrictions on official travel to Taiwan is a dangerous provocation and tantamount to meddling in Beijing’s internal affairs.
Southeast Asian nations facing strongarm tactics from both Washington and Beijing are having to thread the needle to satisfy both sides.
Across SE Asia and the Pacific, Francis is being remembered as a Catholic leader who reached across faiths to highlight a common humanity and worked to extend the arms of the Church.
Indonesia’s foreign ministry speaks for the first time on Russia’s request to use a base in Papua, saying it will always ‘receive and permit’ foreign militaries on ‘peaceful missions’.
Has Russia fallen for the subtle Indonesian art of strategic ambiguity in believing it might be in with a shot to base long-range aircraft in Southwest Papua’s Manuhua Air Force Base?
Any move by Indonesia would trash its cherished reputation as a non-aligned state, alienate close partners Australia and Japan, upset its ASEAN neighbours and open the floodgates to similar arrangements.
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