“Summer rainfall fell and riverbeds became seasonally dry, placing stress on both hobbits and their prey,” said Dr Gagan, an honorary professor at the University of Queensland.
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Australian personnel and members of the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) met in Jakarta this month during Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2025 to strengthen cooperation on regional security priorities.
The island was founded by Australian businessman Andrew Dixon – a Singaporean-based banker who craved more. He’d lived in the Lion City since the ‘90s but came to desire space and sea and nature – those elements we so often take for granted as Australians, even those of us camped in the cities and the suburbs.
Indonesia must strengthen legal governance and anti-corruption enforcement before joining the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration and Corrections Yusril Ihza Mahendra said.
Australia’s Special Envoy for International Human Rights, Hon. Mark Dreyfus KC, said that he would support Indonesia if it decides to run for the chairmanship of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Enrolments in Asian languages have plummeted. Between 2004 and 2022, Indonesian language enrolments at universities fell by 76%, according to the Australian Consortium for In-Country Indonesian Studies.
The Directorate General of Immigration at the Ministry of Immigration and Correctional Services has confirmed that the requirements for obtaining Indonesian citizenship by foreigners have just been tightened.
Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country’s largest Islamic organisation, is facing its worst organisational crisis in years as it navigates the changing political landscape under the Prabowo Subianto administration.
Papua New Guinea’s Minister for Defence, Dr Billy Joseph MP, Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Richard Marles MP, and Indonesia’s Minister of Defence General (Ret.) Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, met today in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, for their inaugural Trilateral Defence Ministers’ Meeting.
Details on Indonesia’s GCI are still emerging, but the Indonesian Ministry of Immigration’s Abdullah Rasyid told the ABC there were no mentions of land and property ownership rights in the regulations that underpinned the new visa program.
Australians are being warned about the dangers of buying a strong skincare medication at popular tourist destinations like Bali and Thailand. There’s particular concern as items can be bought over-the-counter at a fraction of the price.
Thousands of young Indonesians are entering an online “war” to secure the support letter required for Australia’s Work and Holiday Visa, a process marked by system errors and the rise of scammers offering paid shortcuts.
“We have learned a great deal from Australia,” Meutya Hafid, Indonesia’s communications and digital affairs minister, said in a November speech. Spain and New Zealand have also expressed interest in following Australia’s example.
For Beijing, Indonesia functions as a strategic partner and hub which an economic centre of gravity securing critical mineral supply chains for electric vehicles and renewable industries.
A privately operated airport inside one of the world’s largest nickel-processing hubs has ignited a national debate over sovereignty and regulatory oversight in Indonesia, after senior officials alleged the facility runs without full supervision from the central government.
For the past 18 months, construction of a 182-metre elevator had been taking place on the steep cliffs surrounding Kelingking Beach on Nusa Penida — an island off the coast of Bali.
