in his meetings with the prime minister of vietnam, and the president of indonesia, joko widodo, sugahared concerns about china's increased activities in the south china sea. they reaffirmed that they will step up cooperation in the field of security, including transfers of defense equipment from japan. they allso agreed to promote economic cooperation, such as strengthening supply chain stos cope with the coronavirus pandemic. japan regards the two countries as pivotal within the association of southeastern asian nations. japanese ofofficials say suga's visit demonstratess japan's continuing engagemment in the endo pacifific as a memberer of region. suga will stress the importance of rule of law and freedom of navigation for the stability of the region at an asean summit next month. china is also stepping up efforts to strengthen tiies wit asean. customs authorities say asean surppassed the european union a china's biggest trade partner this year. transactions witith asean accounted for 14 pit.6.6% of ch trade during this period. among asean member states, trade with vietnam was up 1

japan's prime minister suga yoshihide will leave vietnam for indonesia for talks with president joko widodon tuesday. >> translator: i want the two countries to work closely on various issues including the coronavirus and the economy. i want the summit to establish such a relationship. >> in the meeting suga is expected to emphasize that as a key member of asean indonesia is a strategic partner and the two countries share basic values like freedom and democracy. suga hopes the nations will agree to work together over a range of regional issues including china's growing maritime presence. he wants to arrange a meeting of their foreign and defense ministers soon. suga also plans to accelerate negotiations on the transfer of defense equipment. indonesia has the highest total number of coronavirus cases in southeast asia. suga will likely convey japan's readiness to offer yen loans to help indonesia financially. he would also like to set up with indonesia's joko a plan to lift japan's entry restrictions for nurses and caregivers from indonesia. for more on suga's visit to indonesia we spoke to

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the legislation will erode workers' rights and weaken environmental protections that president joko widodo says it will boost the economy by cutting red tape and streamlining regulations to washington was at the rally in jakarta. tens of thousands of student protesters had gathered in jakarta in the city center to voice their discontent against this new controversial legislation but security forces are trying to clear this area if firing multiple rounds of tear gas at this crowd of mostly teenage demonstrators the demonstrators say that they will keep protesting until the president listens and until this legislation is revote the protests had mostly been concentrated in industrial areas outside of the capital city earlier in the week but now it has spread to jakarta factory workers in particular feel strongly against this legislation which they say rolls out the red carpet for investors at their expense. hundreds of bangladeshi protest has clashed with police this week off a video of a woman being attacked was posted online here when rights groups say abuses against women are only getting

say the legislation will erode workers' rights and weaken environmental protections the president joko widodo says it will boost the economy. the top stories on al-jazeera the world health organization has reported a record one day rise in global coronavirus cases with more than 330000 cases in 24 hours and 5 and a half 1000 deaths this is warning the sounded about rising cases across europe france reported $18000.00 cases while u.k. infections.