Indonesia

Thailand and Malaysia may set up camps and detention centres to shelter hundreds of refugees arriving on their shores, officials said on May 12, as a leading inter-governmental agency said about 7,000 boatpeople were still adrift in the Bay of Bengal.

Four boats carrying some 1,400 Rohingya migrants were rescued off the coasts of Indonesia and Malaysia on May 11, officials said, a day after nearly 600 others arrived in a wooden vessel off Indonesia's Aceh.

Boats carrying about 500 members of Myanmar's long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim community washed to shore in western Indonesia on May 10, with some of the people in need of medical attention, a migration official and a human rights advocate said.
                   

Turkey and Indonesia have signed an agreement to jointly develop and produce a medium-weight tank, Turkey's Undersecretary for Defense Industries announced on May 7.

The two countries signed an agreement for the design and manufacture of two prototype medium-weight tanks. The intellectual property rights will belong to both countries, the Undersecretary said in a statement.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said May 1 that Indonesia's sympathy for the families of two drug traffickers it executed was a good sign for resuming strong ties between the nations.

Indonesia faced a storm of international protest on April 29 for putting seven foreign drug convicts before a firing squad, but Filipinos rejoiced after a compatriot was spared at the last minute.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed ?deep remorse? on April 22 for Japan?s World War II aggression at a summit attended by Asian leaders, but stopped short of repeating previous apologies in a move that drew anger from South Korea.

A drone marked with a radioactive sign landed on the roof of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office on April 22 and  tested positive for a "minuscule" amount of radiation, media reported. 

Police found the radiation to be low enough not to be harmful to humans, media said. 

KRALJEVO - Indonesian Ambassador to Serbia Harry Richard James Kandou visited on Monday Trstenik, where he talked with president of that municipality Miroslav Aleksic about the town's development, repair of the flood damage and possible investments in the company Prva Petoletka.

Indonesia banned on April 16 small retailers from selling beer, despite an outcry from the booze industry and in tourism hotspots over the Muslim-majority country's latest offensive against drinking.