The junta hit Kyauk Ni Maw village of Yanbye township on Wednesday afternoon, destroying around 500 homes and killing more than 40 people, according to the National Unity Government and a UN statement released late on Friday.

As the world grapples with a failing multilateral system, and as seemingly never-ending crises continue to cause instability across the globe, Indonesia will practice a “bolder” free and active foreign policy to ensure its self-sufficiency and uphold ASEAN centrality, Foreign Minister Sugiono asserted during his first annual speech on Friday. 

The Indonesian Maritime Security Agency has signed a contract for a patrol vessel provided through grant from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) worth some 9 billion yen (US$57 billion).

China Coast Guard hosted Indonesian Maritime Security Agency (Bakamla) in a first-ever high-level meeting in Beijing.

The Jakarta Post journalist Yvette Tanamal won the Best Print Journalist award at the 2025 Adam Malik Awards, bestowed by the Foreign Ministry for her reporting on Indonesia's diplomacy and other foreign affairs issues.

The minister said Indonesia would continue to advocate for the completion of a code of conduct between the Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN and China on the South China Sea and prioritise ASEAN's centrality. 

Among issues both leaders discussed while having a lunch in Kuala Lumpur were border issues, labor transfer, coordination on fisherfolk in conflicted areas along Malacca Strait and ASEAN Community Building, according to Anwar.

China's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said it had found a cluster outbreak of the Ib subclade that started with the infection a foreigner who has a history of travel and residence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 

President Prabowo Subianto and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim expected to discuss various bilateral and regional issues during the former's visit to Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.

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The special aircraft carrying Prabowo and his delegation landed at the Bunga Raya Complex, Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) at 10.15 am.

French diplomats have acknowledged since late last year that talks were underway for the transfer of Serge Atlaoui, a 61-year-old Frenchman arrested in 2005 at a drugs factory outside Jakarta.

The meeting between Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin and his Japanese counterpart Nakatani Gen in Jakarta serves as a prelude to an upcoming meeting between President Prabowo Subianto and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Indonesia.

Ressa and the Rappler news site she co-founded have spent years fighting online disinformation while battling court cases filed under former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, whose drug war killed thousands of people. 

Special Envoy for International Trade and Multilateral Cooperation Mari Pangestu has said that despite Indonesia'a accession to BRICS, the country would not be tied down by the bloc and would continue to practice a free and active foreign policy.

Indonesia welcomed its official full membership of BRICS on Tuesday, hailing the development as “a strategic step” in fostering cooperation with fellow Global South countries to promote a “just and peaceful” world.

Rescue workers waded through rubble strewn across the ruins in the aftermath of the earthquake, footage showed, while some gave locals thick blankets to keep warm in subzero temperatures.

"We've already been talking. We've been talking through their representatives," Trump said in an interview with conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt.

Multiple local media outlets cited an internal email from Ice Hockey Australia (IHA) to the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) saying it could not hold the tournament due to safety and security concerns over Israel's attendance.

Brazil, as the BRICS chair this year, released a statement announcing that Indonesia has become a full member of BRICS, which received wide attention from the international community.

Tencent's shares plummeted more than seven percent in Hong Kong on Tuesday, while CATL saw its shares in Shenzhen sink 5.2 percent.

Indonesia had previously expressed its desire to join the group as a means of strengthening emerging countries and furthering the interests of the so-called Global South.

Najib, 71, is serving a six-year jail term for corruption related to the plunder of sovereign wealth fund 1MDB and faces several other cases linked to the financial scandal that led to his defeat in the 2018 elections.

China regards Taiwan as part of its territory and for years has been ramping up military, diplomatic and political pressure on the island to accept its claims of sovereignty.  

Authorities gave the migrants food supplies and clean drinking water after the boats were discovered on Friday two nautical miles southwest off the coast of the Malaysian resort island of Langkawi, the agency said. 

The group comprises 68 men, 57 women, 32 boys and 39 girls, according to the police.

Levels of hazardous small particles, known as PM2.5, were measured at 266 micrograms per cubic metre in Hanoi early on Friday, the highest reading among a list of most-polluted cities, according to AirVisual, which provides independent global air pollution information via a phone app.

As Yoon supporters gathered outside his residence in the pre-dawn hours of Friday in an effort to prevent his arrest, some carried signs in English saying "Stop the Steal", a slogan Trump supporters used to question the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, which he lost.

Yoon, who has already been suspended from duty by lawmakers, would become the first sitting president in South Korean history to be arrested if the warrant is carried out.

The ministry launched the inspections following Sunday's crash of a Boeing 737-800 operated by Jeju Air that killed 179 people. The inspections were supposed to be completed on Friday but were extended to Jan. 10, the official told Reuters, without elaborating on the reason.