In the ten months since we last ran a country feature on Indonesia, a lot has happened in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, which also happens to be the world’s third largest democracy, and the world’s biggest coal exporter by volume. As an aside, China is the world’s largest coal producer, but uses nearly […]
On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me… seven swans a-swimming, according to the ancient English carol. But not here, as, for the third year in a row, ..
Indonesian authorities have confirmed that a locally-owned cargo vessel that was initially reported missing along with its entire crew has been found drifting in the Araf ..
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Indonesian authorities have begun conducting a search operation to attempt to locate a cargo vessel that disappeared in the Arafura Sea off Western New Guinea late last w ..
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This month, Indonesia and Australia signed an agreement on combatting illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. This is not only a significant step for both cou ..
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Indonesian media reports that a locally-owned fishing vessel has gone missing along with 15 of its crew in the Arafura Sea off the eastern province of South Papua. Author ..
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Following Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, Europe is trying desperately to reduce dependence on Russian hydrocarbons. Sending Vladimir Putin billions of dollars for ..
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Just after lunchtime on February 17, China for the first time undertook grey zone actions in the seas close to Australia. There have been many earlier cyber intrusions ta ..
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For many years, paramilitary patrol ships of the China Coast Guard (CCG) and its predecessor, China Maritime Surveillance, usually lightly-armed, but often with the reinf ..
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The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has been goaded into releasing details of an incident in which a Chinese warship hit a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) patrol aircraf ..
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