Indonesia vice president resigns amid dispute over eligibility
Gibran Rakabuming Raka, son of former President Joko Widodo, resigns as court questions his overseas education.

Gibran Rakabuming Raka, son of former President Joko Widodo, resigns as court questions his overseas education.


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Indonesian authorities seized 1.16 tonnes of ketamine from a Malaysian vessel in the Strait of Malacca.
World authority on threatened wildlife classifies 96 percent of assessed coral reef systems as “critically endangered”.
ASEAN’s consensus-driven approach and a lack of enforcement mechanisms make legal action difficult, experts say.

Al Jazeera’s Osama Bin Javaid reports on the ‘Badr’ Memorandum of Understanding.
Experts say conflicts and uncertainty are accelerating efforts to strengthen regional military capacity.

Students and activists protested across Indonesia over forest fires linked to land clearing for palm oil plantations.
Cheap land clearing imposes costs across borders. ASEAN must change the incentives that keep the fires burning.

Indonesia battles worst forest fires and toxic haze in 11 years
The deaths come as Jakarta says it will accept foreign help to tackle its worst forest fires in more than a decade.

An orange haze is blanketing Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan as wildfires rage across the province.