So-called freedom of navigation operations (FONOPs) that the U.S. Navy has been carrying out against China’s extensive maritime claims in the South China Sea, have proved ineffective and even risk ...

From being accused of grave human rights violations and booted from the military to winning Indonesia’s presidency, Prabowo Subianto has come far and risen high. Reliable quick poll results announced ...

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 ...

What began as a small fabric shop in Central Java nearly 60 years ago grew into one of Southeast Asia’s biggest textile manufacturers, outfitting military forces and supplying clothing to major global ...

At Timor-Leste's museum of memory, Hugo Fernandes supervises exhibits chronicling resistance and oppression during the Indonesian occupation – an era when Prabowo Subianto, now Indonesia's ...

The governor of Sulu has declared it to be free of Abu Sayyaf militants, but analysts warn that the group’s top leaders remain at large while private armies hired by politicians strike fear among ...

In his first public testimony as a private citizen, former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte defiantly defended his administration’s war on drugs, saying he alone bore responsibility for it. While ...

A monsoon storm brewed above Boonrat Chaikeaw as he cast his net into the endless tide of trash in the Mekong River on one day in June. He brought home more plastic than fish over six trips into the ...

The Philippine military said Tuesday it had rescued the teenaged son of an Indonesian couple who blew themselves up in a 2019 suicide bombing that killed 21 people at a Catholic cathedral in the south ...

Jakarta’s feisty response last week to the Chinese coast guard “disrupting” Indonesian survey activities in the North Natuna Sea appears to show that new President Prabowo Subianto has shed his ...

Military officials in Indonesia’s restive Papua region said Friday they were verifying the authenticity of a video that has gone viral and appears to show Indonesian servicemen beating and cutting ...

Indonesia avoided a harsh penalty from FIFA after the world football governing body stripped it of hosting rights for the Under-20 World Cup 2023 amid a controversy over Israel’s participation, the ...