Author: Garin Fadhillah

Việt Nam is building a human resources development strategy and project along with suitable incentives to attract leading foreign semiconductor manufacturers, designers and developers to the country, the government leader stressed. HÀ NỘI – Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính hosted a reception in Hà Nội on December 7 for President of the US Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) John Neuffer and leaders of major US semiconductor companies such as Intel, Qualcom, Ampere and ARM, who are on a working visit to Việt Nam. PM Chính told them that in the recently-established comprehensive strategic partnership, Việt Nam and the US have agreed…

Brussels (08/11 – 50) On March 20, the IMF approved a $3 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) to support Sri Lanka amid its economic crisis. The approval is expected to pave the way for other financial institutions to extend support to the bankrupt South Asian country. IMF program was made possible largely due to the untiring efforts of the President Ranil Wickremesinghe. The IMF links financial assistance to a country to policy reform, a conditionality that usually imposes political as well as economic changes in the recipient nation. The logic behind IMF conditionality is multifold. It is supposed to prevent moral hazard…

SINGAPORE/JAKARTA — Japanese and ASEAN leaders are likely to agree to pursue a world without nuclear weapons and deepen their cooperation on supply chains and digitalization at a summit later this month, according to a draft joint vision statement seen by Nikkei. The joint statement will be issued at a special summit from Dec. 16 to 18 in Tokyo, and it will underline three pillars of cooperation: people exchanges, co-creation of economy and society, and peace and stability. Supply chains and digitalization will be priority areas. With Japan and ASEAN celebrating their 50th anniversary of friendship and cooperation in 2023,…

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry confirmed that no Indonesian citizens in the Gaza Strip were killed as a result of the Israeli attacks. The ministry’s spokesperson, Lalu Muhammad Iqbal, issued this clarification on Tuesday, Oct. 31, in response to reports that one Indonesian died following the increasingly critical situation caused by a series of air and ground attacks launched by Israel in the enclave. The news of the death of an Indonesian citizen was first reported on Monday, Oct 30, by a well-known preacher Salim A. Fillah on his Instagram account @salimafillah. “The Indonesian Foreign Ministry clarified the news to the account…

Jakarta [Indonesia], November 16 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday arrived at the venue of the10th ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting-Plus (ADMM-Plus) in Indonesia’s capital city Jakarta. During the meeting that is being held on the sidelines of the Defence Ministers of participating countries, Singh will address the forum on regional and international security issues, the Ministry of Defence announced in an earlier press release. Singh was greeted by Indonesian Defence Minister and the Chair of ADMM Plus, Prabowo Subianto, who welcomed Rajnath Singh. The two leaders greeted each other warmly and proceeded to attend the meeting. Taking to X,…

Police say suspects are members of hardline groups Jemaah Islamiyah and Jamaah Ansharut Daulah. Indonesian authorities have arrested dozens of people from hardline groups over suspected plots aimed at disrupting next year’s presidential election, police have said. Police arrested 59 suspects and seized weapons, propaganda material and bomb-making chemicals, a spokesperson for Indonesia’s Counterterrorism Special Detachment 88 unit said on Tuesday. “For them, the election is part of democracy, whereby democracy is immoral. Democracy is something that violates the law for them,” spokesperson Aswin Siregar told a press conference in the capital Jakarta “They planned to carry out attacks on…

CABANATUAN, Philippines — The U.S., in coordination with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, conducted a 9-day Project-based Community Medical Deployment focused on community outreach and education in multiple locations in the Philippines from October 17-25, 2023.U.S. Army Master Sgt. Christopher Roach said, “The PCMD took one and a half years of planning and was a meaningful way for countries to come together speaking the universal language of medicine … humans serving humanity.”The Association of Southeast Asian Nations as a regional group, aims to promote economic and security cooperation among its 10 members: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the…

CHINA: Tariffs and policy restrictions are among the impediments to the development of a more robust trade of electric vehicles (EVs) between China and member-countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), a Chinese official said. In an interview with the reporters, Guigang Government Deputy Director of Gangbei District Lin Shaohua said that the industrial park in her jurisdiction was built with the aim of serving the markets of Asean member-countries. Gangbei District is located in Guigang City, Guangxi. “Our production base and industrial park was built to serve the market of Asean countries,” Shaohua said. “We still have a…

The Indonesia stock market has moved higher in four straight sessions, picking up more than 55 points or 0.8 percent along the way. The Jakarta Composite Index now rests just above the 6,930-point plateau and it’s tipped to open in the green again on Thursday. The global forecast for the Asian markets is mixed to higher on optimism over the outlook for interest rates. The European markets were mixed and the U.S. bourses were up and the Asian markets figure to split the difference. The JCI finished slightly higher on Wednesday as gains from the food and financial stocks were offset by…

KUCHING, Oct 31 — Sarawak Premier Tan Sri Abang Johari Openg today said the state is proud to play a role in spearheading a shared power grid in Borneo and to work with Indonesia and Singapore to progress the Asean power grid. He said he is looking forward to building partnerships and mutual collaboration to power sustainable growth for South-east Asia through renewable hydropower sharing. “We are strong advocates for regional cooperation and the development of the Asean power grid,” he said in his speech at the World Hydropower Congress 2023 in Bali, Indonesia. He said Sarawak’s first power exchange…