Primastuti Handayani, The Jakarta Post, Shanghai, China | Sun, 05/09/2010 1:43 PM

If Phileas Fogg and Passepartout need 80 days to travel the globe in Verne's classic Around the World in 80 Days to win £20,270 (US$30,000), we need less than that and less traveling once we are inside the World Expo 2010 Shanghai, China.
 

 Menteri Luar Negeri RI, DR. Marty R.M. Natalegawa, menghadiri Pertemuan High Level Democracy Meeting (HLDM) di Krakow-Polandia, tanggal 2-3 Juli 2010, yang diselenggarakan dalam rangka peringatan 10 tahun Community of Democracies.
 

H.E. Dr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono President Republic of Indonesia and his entourage arrived in Canberra on Tuesday for a three-day state visit to Australia.  On Wednesday 10 March 2010 President Yudhoyono became the fifth foreign leader to address a joint sitting of Australia`s parliament at the Great Hall, Parliament House, Canberra.
 

by: Marty M. Natalegawa
By any measure, the first decade of the 21st century has been a momentous one for Indonesia. The decade witnessed the transformation of Indonesia into what has been hailed as the third largest democracy in the world.

As a result, some one quarter billion of humanity now enjoys the civil and political rights, in addition to economic and social rights hitherto denied them. A solid evidence that democracy, Islam and modernity can go hand in hand.

Manado - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono asked on Thursday countries all over the world to stop the widespread and rapid destruction of the world`s marine and coastal resources by applying ecosystem-based adaptation measures.
"We must protect them from human abuse and over-exploitation, and from the injurious impact of climate change," the president said in his keynote address to the World Ocean Conference (WOC) here. All countries must preserve the marine and coastal resources as legacy for future generations so that they might live free from the shackles of poverty", he said.

Indonesia has handed over the document of the ratification of the UN transnational crimes convention to the United Nations recently, during the 18th Session on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Vienna, Indonesia’s Permanent Mission to the UN and other International Organizations in Austria says.
Under the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crimes (UNCTOC), Jakarta can seek international assistance in dealing with money laundering, corruption and terrorism.  The document was handed over by the Indonesian Mission’s Charge d’Affaires Rainer Luhanapessy to the UN’s Treaty Section legal adviser Annebeth Rosenboom. Indonesian Foreign Ministry director for international security and disarmament Desra Percaya was also present at the handing over ceremony.