The film’s release on World Rainforest Day 2025 highlights Kayan River communities impacted in North Kalimantan.

After living in Malaysia for 12 years without proper papers, Ramlah, an Indonesian woman, plans to return home through a voluntary repatriation program for foreign migrants that expires on Dec. 31, or ...

Under a bill passed by Malaysia’s lower house last week, Malaysian mothers can transfer their citizenship to children born overseas – a right previously reserved only for Malaysian fathers. The ...

Pemerintah pusat juga terus menjalankan rencana membangun lima bendungan di tiga sungai di Kalimantan Utara sebagai bagian dari proyek pembangkit listrik tenaga air terbesar di Asia Tenggara. Proyek ...

The U.S. administration has withheld the funding that we rely on to bring our readers and viewers the news from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, the Philippines and island-states and ...

Tribal violence and claims of ‘cannibalism’ in Papua New Guinea have marked the start of 2025 for the Pacific nation as it prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary of independence. Nine people were ...

More than 1,000 students in Indonesia’s restive Papua region took to the streets to protest a government-sponsored free-meal program, demanding that the government instead prioritize free education.

Debate on Guam’s future as a U.S. territory has intensified with its legislature due to vote on a non-binding resolution to become a U.S. state amid mounting Pacific geostrategic tensions and ...

Two “high-value targets” were among five suspected communist guerrillas killed in what the military described as separate clashes with government troops in the central and southern Philippines this ...

Clashes between police and protesters escalated in Bangladesh on Friday, the second day of a “complete shutdown” declared by students demanding an end to a job quota system. A BenarNews journalist ...

José do Santos was once a construction foreman in Dili who oversaw the rise of buildings symbolizing Timor-Leste’s progress after its triumphant vote for independence from Indonesia nearly 25 years ...

Updated at 11:20 p.m. ET on 2024-11-19. In response to a question during a televised debate in December 2023, then-Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto stated that he would send more ...