Indonesian people say they have limited knowledge about the virus and the disease it causes, COVID-19.
Politics
Australia’s Pacific Step-Up strategy is considered the country’s highest foreign policy priority. The core component of Australia’s doctrine has been to prevent unaligned powers from gaining significant influence in the South Pacific.
Build things, cut some red tape, improve access to basic services (though not necessarily their quality), & make civil servants more efficient.
Now that the government has declared the COVID-19 outbreak a national disaster, immediate measures are imperative to protect the whole population of this country from the contagious disease.
The Quad aims to tie the four corners of the Indo-Pacific together in high level security dialogue among the four ‘like-minded’ democracies — Australia, Japan, India and the United States (notably absent Indonesia).
Indonesia is urging that countries band together in the fight to contain the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus globally, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said on Friday.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo said that he and his ministers will be tested for the coronavirus, a day after Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi was confirmed to have been infected.
Australia is doing a lot of thinking about what steps to take in the South Pacific. How high does the ‘Pacific step-up’ have to go? How many different steps? Step style? Step hierarchy?
Last week, Indonesia’s deputy minister visited one of the facilities of Indonesia’s state-owned companies.
On International Women’s Day, Foreign Minister Marise Payne announced the appointment of Australia’s first ambassador for gender equality. Julie-Ann Guivarra will take over from Sharman Stone.
Hundreds of people grouped under the People’s Movement Alliance gathered on Monday to hold a “grand meeting” to stop the deliberation of the controversial omnibus bill on job creation.
Australia doesn’t get too many masterworks on foreign policy, but we’re in a fertile period, as tough times bring forth books to define the era.
A review is underway into Australian aid policy, with consultations run across the country, and the public, scholars, and aid groups alike offering submissions – some of which are expected to be released in the coming weeks.
This year we celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March, the 25th anniversary of the UN Beijing Platform for Action, and the 20th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325.
The Indo-Pacific is an idea with a crucial purpose: avoid war. It’s a lot to ask of a geographic construct that barely existed a decade ago. The journey from construct to competition has been short and sharp.
Sailors attempting a rafting expedition from the Timor Sea to Darwin, Australia, has been deported in the latest wave of stricter measures applied by the government on research conducted by foreigners.
