BEIJING (AP) Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto pledged to continue his country’s friendly policy toward China as he met Monday with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing. Subianto, who will succeed Joko Widodo in October, chose Beijing for his first official visit after his February election victory in a bid to emphasise the countries’ robust […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) Indonesia and Australia held high-level talks in Jakarta on Friday as the neighbouring countries seek to strengthen security ties by signing a defence cooperation agreement in the coming months. Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto, who is set to become Indonesia’s next leader, said that he and Australian counterpart Richard Marles discussed ways […]
PALU, Indonesia (AP) Indonesian police on Monday named two Chinese nationals as suspects in the explosion of a smelting furnace at a Chinese-owned nickel plant on Sulawesi Island that killed 21 workers and injured dozens of others. Four Chinese and nine Indonesian workers died instantly on December 24 when the furnace at PT Indonesia […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) Tens of thousands of Indonesians flocked to presidential campaign rallies on Saturday to air their concerns over the state of democracy in the country. President Joko Widodo is facing mounting criticism over his lack of neutrality after he threw his support behind frontrunner Prabowo Subianto, who has picked Widodo’s son as […]