Indonesian President Joko Widodo, right, shakes hands with Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto during the inauguration ceremony at the State Palace in J
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Thousands of students staged protests across the country against proposed changes to the criminal code and a new law that weakened the country’s anti-
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By: Ainur Rohmah Last weekend, Puan Maharani, the 45-year-old daughter of Megawati Sukarnoputri, the powerful head of the Indonesian Democratic Party
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PROTESTORS IN BANDUNG (PHOTO: LAB NUSANTARA ON FLICKR) "By EVE WARBURTON" Over the last week,tens of thousands of students and activists have poured
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The idea that ‘good people vote for good people’ has led to a dangerous essentialism in Indonesian politics and has altered electoral contests so that
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In a press conference on 13 September, President Joko Widodo, accompanied by Head of Presidential Staff Moeldoko (left) and State Secretary Pratikno (
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Premature? Indonesia president Joko Widodo takes his seat with deputy Jusuf Kalla (right) and agrarian and spatial planning minister Sofyan Djalil (l
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"By AISYAH LLEWELLYN RANTO SIBARANI" Two recent cases show how rising intolerance and intimidation has a legal cost for minorities in the archipelag
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"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
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Lukman Hakim Saifuddin, Minister for Religious Affairs (left), and Muhammad Romahurmuziy, former chair of the United Development Party (PPP), are ca
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