In 2017 Pardinan Sakerebau’s family home in Pukurayat, an off-grid hamlet in Indonesia’s Mentawai archipelago, received electric lighting for the first time from four lamps powered by a rooftop solar ...

The countries made official an agreement reached last year, with Indonesia avoiding a higher tariff and committing to cooperate on export controls. By Alexandra Stevenson Reporting from Jakarta, ...

Defining the Indo-Pacific remains a highly complex and contested issue. Major democracies, driven largely by geostrategic considerations, have promoted the term as a replacement for the Asia Pacific, ...

Dan the Baker has been named a semifinalist in the James Beard Awards' Outstanding Bakery category. Barrel and Bloom, which opened as a coffee shop, will now operate as a full bar. Sexton's Pizza ...

Ever since eighteenth-century scholars recognized that Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit all descended from a common language, researchers have been consumed with determining who first spoke this ancient ...

As the United States rethinks its role in the international order it has championed since the end of World War II, Japan is on the frontlines of the challenge to rules-based commerce and diplomacy.

The 2025 Shangri-La Dialogue marked a subtle but telling shift in Indo-Pacific geopolitics. While the annual security forum retained its usual stagecraft between the United States and China, this year ...

To the backdrop of both rising tensions and the opportunities offered by this region, which is crucial for the world’s future, France has a singular position. France’s strategy seeks to mutually and ...

DELIVERING ON RECIPROCAL TRADE: President Donald J. Trump announced a landmark trade deal with Indonesia that will provide Americans with market access in Indonesia once considered impossible and ...

U.S. Indo-Pacific Command has raised its force protection condition to Bravo and implemented additional Charlie-level security measures, citing potential real-world threats. In a message distributed ...

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