Prime Minister Tony Abbott Saturday pleaded with Indonesia to heed Australia's call for clemency for two death row convicts, and warned that Canberra would make its displeasure known should the executions go ahead.

No date for the executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran has been released but an Indonesian official said governments with death row prisoners had been invited to a meeting with the foreign ministry on Monday.

Chinese relatives of those on board missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 protested outside the carrier's office on Thursday, demanding Malaysia withdraw a statement declaring all the passengers dead.

The Malaysian government last month officially listed the disappearance of Malaysian Airline flight MH370 as an accident and said all 239 people on board had perished in a move it said would pave the way for compensation claims.

The family of jailed Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Wednesday described his five-year incarceration as an "outrage" and vowed an international campaign to free the former deputy prime minister.

The "March to Freedom" program, Anwar's second daughter Nurul Nuha Anwar said, is designed to drum up international support from political leaders and human rights groups to press for her father's release.

One of Malaysia's best-known political cartoonists has been arrested for sedition over a Twitter posting that criticized the jailing of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, the artist's wife said Wednesday.

Zulkifli Anwar Ulhaque -- better known as Zunar -- was arrested Tuesday night, hours after Anwar was jailed for five years in a politically charged sodomy case.

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said he was the victim of a "political conspiracy" on Tuesday as the nation's highest court sent him to jail for five years on a sodomy conviction that will likely end his career.

Anwar had challenged a conviction handed down last year for sodomizing a young male former aide, but the Federal Court struck down his appeal, saying there was "overwhelming evidence" of the crime.

A system malfunction forced the pilots of an AirAsia X flight from Kuala Lumpur to Jeddah to abort the flight and return to Malaysia on Sunday, the AirAsia Group's CEO said.

The incident sparked fresh questions on social media about the Malaysian airline group's safety record as it struggles with the aftermath of the loss of Flight QZ8501 in late December with 162 people on board.

The leaders of Malaysia and Indonesia on Friday pledged renewed efforts to resolve stubborn disputes over maritime borders that have long nagged at one of Southeast Asia's most important bilateral relationships.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and visiting Indonesian President Joko Widodo held talks Friday morning and later told a joint press briefing they agreed to set up a new mechanism for resolving territorial issues.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo arrived in Malaysia on Thursday for his first bilateral trip abroad, with the two sides hoping to shore up an important Southeast Asian relationship frequently strained by diplomatic spats.

Widodo, who took office last October, and his host Prime Minister Najib Razak will discuss a range of issues including sticky disputes on maritime borders and the treatment of Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia, Jakarta's foreign minister spokesman Arrmanatha Nasir told Agence France Presse.

Philippine government and Muslim rebel negotiators issued a joint plea Saturday for the country to stick to a historic peace accord that is now in peril after a deadly clash spurred calls for retribution against the guerrillas.

Both sides told a press briefing in Kuala Lumpur that two days of talks in Malaysia on disarming the rebels had made progress, and they vowed not to waver in implementing an accord on the voluntary surrender of weapons.

Distraught Chinese relatives of passengers on missing flight MH370 on Friday called for Malaysia to withdraw its declaration that all onboard had died in an accident, shunning offers of compensation.

Malaysian authorities on Thursday formally declared that all 239 the passengers and crew onboard the lost Malaysia Airlines plane -- two-thirds of whom were Chinese -- were presumed dead for the first time.