AM Fachir

Indonesia seeks to penetrate strategic industry markets in Africa

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Indonesia is seeking to penetrate the strategic industry markets in Sub-Saharan Africa.Deputy Foreign Minister A.M. Fachir, who is also head of the Economic Diplomacy Working Group, stated here on Monday that Indonesia's strategic industries need to increase their foothold in non-traditional markets, including the Sub-Saharan African regions.During a video conference with ten Indonesian ambassadors to African...

Destroyed vehicles are seen after fighting between Libyan special forces and ex-rebel fighters of the Benghazi Shura Council in the eastern city of Benghazi July 30, 2014.

Evacuees: Libya unrest worse than under Qadafi

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, PIRAEUS - Libya was descending into a civil war spiral that was "much worse" than the unrest that toppled its dictator Moamer Qadafi in 2011, residents fleeing the country said Saturday. "We have gone through (war) before, with Qadafi, but now it's much worse," Paraskevi Athineou, a Greek woman living in Libya, told AFP. "Chaos reigns. There is no government,...