In a show of commitment, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is set to attend the COP26’s World Leaders Summit on Monday and Tuesday.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo swore in 17 new envoys at the Presidential Palace on Monday, filling various strategic posts that were previously left vacant even before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Indonesia is expected to bridge the interests of developing and developed countries in the crucial climate change summit next month, a European Union (EU) senior official said, as countries have been unable to resolve financing issues to meet the goals outlined in the Paris Agreement.

A Turkish government proposal to rename a street in Menteng, Central Jakarta, after the founding father of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, has drawn criticism from Indonesian ulema and an Islam-based opposition party.

While refugees are, in principle, included as part of the government's COVID-19 response, their legal status – or lack thereof – remains an obstacle to accessing public health services, particularly the national vaccination program.

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has gone to great lengths to ensure that Indonesia is prepared for the G20 presidency, so he has decided to bolster his nation's global credentials by seeking to attend the COP26 climate summit in Scotland as well.

As the days count down to COP26, a virtual public discussion of diplomats in Jakarta has concurred that the time is nigh for parties to the Paris Accords to stop haggling and finalize the mechanism for international emissions trading.

On Sept. 16, the European Union unveiled its Indo-Pacific strategy, which was overshadowed by the announcement of a security cooperation between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, dubbed AUKUS. The Jakarta Post’s Dian Septiari spoke with EU Ambassador to Indonesia Vincent Piket about the strategy and the EU’s approach in responding to the region’s dynamics.

Indonesia has found itself included on a list of 45 countries cited as being culpable of intimidation and reprisals against human rights defenders seeking to cooperate with the United Nations, according to an annual report from the UN Secretary General’s Office.

Australia, the world's top coal and a major gas exporter, is under growing pressure to come up with emissions reduction targets ahead of November's COP26 United Nations climate conference in Scotland.

The President chose to underline the importance of having richer countries alleviate the burden of less fortunate nations in a speech at the United Nations that touched on COVID-19, climate change and geopolitics.

As the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic at an unequal pace, Indonesia has called for greater vaccine cooperation among partner countries while also addressing various security issues on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

The country's largest trading partners are currently China, the United States, Japan, India, a number of Southeast Asian nations and the European Union.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Tuesday that he had had a “very warm conversation” with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo by phone on Monday evening to "reassure" him about the new AUKUS partnership with the United States and Britain.

The 15-meter high lava flow has already swallowed 20 houses in the village of El Paso and sections of roads, Mayor Sergio Rodriguez told TVE radio station on Monday morning.

Mark Forkner was the lead contact between the aviation giant and the United States' Federal Aviation Administration over how pilots should be trained to fly the planes, the Journal said.

Australia will get cruise missiles a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines as part of its new defense agreement with the United States and the United Kingdom, dubbed AUKUS, which has angered China and worried nuclear nonproliferation activists and regional diplomats.

Putin was speaking via a video link at a summit of a Russia-led security bloc being held in Tajikistan which he had initially planned to attend in person.

The United States, Britain and Australia said they would establish a security partnership for the Indo-Pacific that will help Australia acquire US nuclear-powered submarines and scrap the $40 billion French-designed submarine deal.

The security pact with the Western powers, including access to US nuclear submarine technology, will be seen by Beijing, which is embroiled in a long-running trade spat with Canberra, as a threat, said Michael Sullivan, International Relations Lecturer at Flinders University.

The announcement of the alliance -- made in a video meeting by President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his British counterpart Boris Johnson -- is sure to raise hackles in Beijing.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is set to visit Rome next month to attend the G20 Summit and the official handover of the group’s presidency to Indonesia. It will be his first trip abroad in over a year.

The survey by the Allensbach research institute for the conservative newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung found that only 60 percent of voters who are determined to participate in the election have yet decided which party they will support.

In a pair of calls during the final months of the Trump administration, Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People's Liberation Army, that the United States would not attack, The Washington Post reported Tuesday, citing the book authored by Woodward and Robert Costa.

"This is not an accurate portrayal of the call. Period," Biden's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said in a statement.

Indonesia needs to walk the talk in order to seize on the opportunities to direct geopolitical discourse and leverage its strategic value, previous foreign ministers and senior foreign policy experts have said, amid accusations of passivity in Indonesia's global ambitions.

"Our position has not changed when it comes to North Korea, we remain prepared to engage," principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.