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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AUTHOR : NICK BAKER Human Rights Watch has implored Indonesian President Joko Widodo to tackle an "upsurge in discrimination against religious and s
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"By Endy M. Bayuni" Indonesia may have the world’s largest Muslim population, but Islamism (political Islam) remains a hard sell here. This has b
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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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"By Prof. Tim Lindsey" May 27, 2019 3.15pm AEST The violence in the aftermath of the Indonesian elections has abated, but deep tensions r
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"By Graeme Dobell" SHARE Print This Post ‘Relations with Indonesia have provided the crucible of modern Australian foreign policy.’ —Br
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Indonesia created an independent body to investigate and prosecute corrupt politicians. It worked—mostly "By JONAH BLANK" Activists hold a
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"By Frank Palmos" Frank Palmos was just 21 years old when he began his career as a foreign correspondent in the relatively new Republic of Indonesi
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"By Hugh White" The arithmetic is clear: if Indonesia can keep growing at about 5 per cent a year for the next two or three decades, as it has d
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"By DUNCAN GRAHAM" In 2015 then PM Tony Abbott sought to save the lives of two convicted heroin traffickers. He reminded Indonesians that Austra
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