The film’s release on World Rainforest Day 2025 highlights Kayan River communities impacted in North Kalimantan.

After living in Malaysia for 12 years without proper papers, Ramlah, an Indonesian woman, plans to return home through a voluntary repatriation program for foreign migrants that expires on Dec. 31, or ...

Under a bill passed by Malaysia’s lower house last week, Malaysian mothers can transfer their citizenship to children born overseas – a right previously reserved only for Malaysian fathers. The ...

Pemerintah pusat juga terus menjalankan rencana membangun lima bendungan di tiga sungai di Kalimantan Utara sebagai bagian dari proyek pembangkit listrik tenaga air terbesar di Asia Tenggara. Proyek ...

The U.S. administration has withheld the funding that we rely on to bring our readers and viewers the news from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, the Philippines and island-states and ...

A decade after the Royal Thai Armed Forces seized power in a military coup, democracy has technically been restored in Thailand, but the popular will continues to be thwarted. Gen. Prayuth Chan-o-cha ...

Outgoing Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo oversaw the nation’s first Independence Day ceremony in its future capital on Saturday, against a backdrop of cranes and unfinished structures. The ...

Clashes between police and protesters escalated in Bangladesh on Friday, the second day of a “complete shutdown” declared by students demanding an end to a job quota system. A BenarNews journalist ...

An attack on the editorial office of Papua-based media outlet Jubi on Wednesday using Molotov cocktails set fire to vehicles but resulted in no casualties, Indonesian police said. The latest targeting ...

Vanuatu’s newly elected Prime Minister Jotham Napat is known as a sharp and media-savvy political strategist and leads a coalition government whose combined foreign affairs know-how bodes well for a ...

One of the best Pacific Ocean locations to witness a stunning abundance of tropical fish, sharks and corals is also the least expected – Bikini Atoll, a site of U.S. nuclear tests in the middle of the ...

Growing U.S. security and diplomatic ties with Pacific island nations are unlikely to slow even if American foreign policy undergoes a major shake-up during Donald Trump’s second term, say former ...