The Indonesian government is planning to tighten housing construction standards nationwide in an effort to reduce the severe consequences of potential ...

The Indonesian government plans to strengthen domestic housing construction standards to mitigate the impact of potential ...

The U.S. has the world's largest carrier fleet with 11 in service, while China ranks second with three and Japan has two ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Sugiono stated that Indonesia consistently adhered to prevailing international law, including UNCLOS 1982, to prioritize the peaceful ...

The 2025 edition of the La Perouse exercise is being headed by France with eight other countries - India, the US, Canada, ...

France is looking forward to further progress and new initiatives under Malaysia's chairmanship of ASEAN this year, as ...

Indonesia has just become the 10th full member nation of BRICS+, the first nation in South East Asia to gain such membership.

Krakatoa, located in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra, is infamous for its catastrophic eruption in 1883. It's one of the world's active volcanoes that visitors can actually hike up to.

A crater collapse on the volcanic island at high tide on Saturday sent waves up to 5 metres (16 feet) high smashing into the coast on the Sunda Strait, between the islands of Java and Sumatra.

but more strategically nearby the Strait of Malacca and the Strait of Sunda. The VOC's choice fell on present-day Jakarta. In 1619 Governor-General Jan Pieterszoon Coen established Batavia on the ...