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A total of nine Southeastern Asian nation leaders are in Melbourne for the ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations)-Australia Special Summit, marking the 50th anniversary of the ASEAN-Australia dialogue partnership. The summit is also the largest ASEAN-Australia diplomatic meeting in the country since 2018. The summit began on March 4th and will conclude on March 6th. Presidents and Prime...

Current Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto of the Gerinda Party won the presidential elections in Indonesia with over 58 percent of the vote. Subianto defeated both Independent candidate Anies Baswedan and Indonesian Party of Struggle (PDI-P) candidate Ganjar Pranowo, who received approximately 26 and 17 percent of the vote, respectively.   Vice Presidential candidate and oldest son of outgoing President Joko Widodo,...

The Attorney of the Indonesian Ministry of Defense, Hotman Paris Hutapea, stated that corruption rumors involving the cancellation of the planned acquisition of 12 Mirage 2000-5 aircraft from Qatar are a hoax. Hutapea alleges that the makers of the false reports are Indonesians who posted these writings on various foreign language websites. He later said that because it was reported in...