Indonesia will ratify the Asean Agreement on Trans-boundary Haze Pollution, environment minister deputy for environment destruction control and climate change Arief Yuwono said here on Monday. “Of the ten ASEAN members only Indonesia that has not ratified the agreement. Following Indonesia’s appointment as ASEAN chair for 2011 we will try to speed up the ratification,” [...]
Indonesia has been selected to host the ASEAN Coordinating Center for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management which will operate starting this year, a minister said. “The heads of state/government of ASEAN member countries have agreed that the AHA Centre should be set up in Indonesia this year,” Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Laksono said [...]
West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) scenic Island of Lombok hosted an ASEAN Ministerial Meeting Retreat on January 15-17, 2011 which was participated in by foreign ministers from 10 ASEAN member nations – Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, The Philippines, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Laos. The meeting was preceded by several other ASEAN meetings including the [...]
Indonesia is ready to consider positively the interest of Russia and the US to participate in the East Asia Summit (EAS), Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said here on Monday. “We are ready to consider it positively if Russia has an interest and if the US is interested in joining the group (EAS),” he said. The [...]
Indonesia will highlight the progress made in Myanmar’s reforms and the implementation of ASEAN blueprints on economic, political, security and sociocultural issues at the 16th ASEAN Summit in Vietnam this week, the Foreign Ministry says. “Indonesia will address the issue of Myanmar at the summit and voice concerns over the urgency to ensure that the [...]
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Sunday night Indonesia will never leave ASEAN despite its growing role in the Group of 20 rich and developing nations (G20). “Admittedly, I have heard some worries that since Indonesia has a new club, new home, namely G20, it will no longer make ASEAN its main home,” the president [...]
