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Stories making news in Australia and Indonesia.

President Joko Widodo is being urged to address his country’s chequered human rights record.

AUTHOR : NICK BAKER Human Rights Watch has implored Indonesian President Joko Widodo to tackle an "upsurge in discrimination against religious and sexual minorities" in the Southeast Asian nation. I
Poll results show fear of Islamism widely exaggerated

"By Endy M. Bayuni" Indonesia may have the world’s largest Muslim population, but Islamism (political Islam) remains a hard sell here. This has been so since its independence in 1945, yet Indones
Reimagining the relationship between Australia and its largest neighbour

"BY DAVID FETTLING" Days after returning to Melbourne from Jakarta, my flashcard app’s collection of Indonesian words seem to have curdled: the ks in place of cs are suddenly jarring; previously neut