While hundreds of Papuans in Papua demonstrated, in Jakarta UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon held a 45-minute meeting with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono last Tuesday at the Bogor Palace.

The two leaders discussed the ASEAN-UN partnership and regional issues such as problems in the South China Sea, Myanmar and the Thailand-Cambodia border conflict. They also touched on global issues. "We discussed many global issues, such as the Middle East," s