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Indonesia posts June trade surplus
AFP, Published on 15/07/2015
» Indonesia recorded a trade surplus for the seventh consecutive month in June, official data showed Wednesday, due to a steep fall in imports in Southeast Asia's top economy.
Indonesia slashes cattle imports from Australia
AFP, Published on 14/07/2015
» JAKARTA - Indonesia has dramatically slashed imports of Australian cattle, an official said Tuesday, sparking concerns that tensions between the neighbours are now affecting trade ties.
Australia ignores Indonesia plea for answers on boat payment claim
AFP, Published on 14/06/2015
» SYDNEY - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott refused again on Sunday to deny allegations an official paid thousands of dollars to turn back a boatload of asylum-seekers, despite calls from Indonesia for answers.
Indonesia demands answers from Australia on asylum boat 'payment'
AFP, Published on 13/06/2015
» JAKARTA - Indonesia's foreign minister Saturday demanded answers from Canberra over claims Australian officials paid thousands of dollars to turn a boat back to Indonesia after Prime Minister Tony Abbott refused to deny the allegations.
Australian PM refuses to deny people-smugglers were paid to turn back boat
AFP, Published on 12/06/2015
» SYDNEY - Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Friday Australia would do "whatever we need to do" to combat people-smuggling as he repeatedly refused to deny claims an official paid thousands of dollars to turn back a boat from Indonesia.
Dozens injured in ferry explosion off Lombok
AFP, Published on 06/06/2015
» SENGGIGI, INDONESIA - Dozens of tourists were injured when small explosions hit a ferry crossing between the popular Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok, officials said Saturday.
Thai police seek local help in people smuggling crackdown
AFP, Published on 28/05/2015
» BANGKOK - Thai police are seeking help from villagers living near a recently uncovered network of jungle camps to aid their investigation into people-smuggling and human trafficking-gangs, a senior officer said Wednesday.
Bones, barbed wire as Malaysia exhumes migrant graves
AFP, Published on 26/05/2015
» WANG KELIAN, MALAYSIA - Barbed wire and a human jawbone hinted at the brutality in suspected people-smuggling camps in Malaysia as police Tuesday began the grisly task of exhuming dozens of graves along the Thai border.
139 graves, 28 trafficking camps found in Malaysia
AFP, Published on 25/05/2015
» Malaysian police said Monday they had found 139 grave sites and 28 abandoned "detention" camps capable of housing hundreds of people, even as Thai police said they’ve rid the South of any such camps.
Jakarta: Most migrants 'not Rohingya'
AFP, Published on 23/05/2015
» SYDNEY — Indonesia has told Australia that most of the migrants stranded at sea in Southeast Asia are illegal labourers from Bangladesh, not oppressed Muslim Rohingya, according to Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.