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Vietnam presided over a United Nations Security Council session on January 13, during which the organisation adopted a resolution to extend the mandate of the UN Mission to support the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA) in Yemen..

Indonesian naval ships found many Chinese coast guard and fishing vessels remain in Indonesia’s exclusive economic zone near Natuna waters on January 11.

The House of Representatives of Thailand has passed a budget bill worth 3.2 trillion baht (105.9 billion USD) for fiscal 2020, more than three months after the fiscal year began.

Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong on January 10 extended condolences to President of Iran Hassan Rouhani, and President of Ukraine V.O. Zelensky over the recent plane crash

The first meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in 2020 was held in Jakarta, Indonesia, on January 9.

Indonesia’s state electricity company PLN’s unit Pembangkitan Jawa Bali (PJB) will begin construction of the Cirata floating solar power plant at a cost of 129 million USD in West Java next year.

The Indonesian Government is looking for an investment of nearly 89.6 trillion IDR in three newly-established special economic zones of Singhasari in East Java, Kendal in Central Java, and Likupang in North Sulawesi.

Indonesia is to send around 120 fishermen from the island of Java to the Natuna islands in the Riau Islands Province, said Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mohammad Mahfud on January 6.

The helicopter squadron carrying Indonesian President Joko Widodo and a government working group to visit flood-hit residents were forced to make an emergency landing in the Sukajaya district in West Java province.

Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Pandjaitan has proposed the purchase of ocean going vessels to strengthen the country’s capability of safeguarding its territorial waters.

As of 1pm on January 4, as many as 25 victims were found, seven of them were dead, after a 7-storey building under construction collapsed in the southwestern province of Kep, Cambodia, a day earlier.

Indonesia’s Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology plans to use weather modification technology in an attempt to divert rain clouds from Greater Jakarta to prevent additional flooding.