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October 19, 2017
ISEAS Perspectives - October 19, 2017
Asian Correspondent - October 19, 2017
Craig P. Oehlers – Controversial website nikahsirri.com exploded onto the Indonesian online dating scene in September 2017. The site quickly…
Jakarta Post - October 19, 2017
Jakarta – The government has said it will ban organizations it believes promote anti-Pancasila values while claiming to be defenders of the state…
The Diplomat - October 19, 2017
David Hutt – What a relief. For years, myself and some other pundits deplored the fact that there was very little political opposition to Timor-…
Jakarta Post - October 19, 2017
Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – National Narcotics Agency (BNN) chief Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso said that investigators would continue to shoot on site…
Jakarta Post - October 19, 2017
Jakarta – Jakarta's Public Order Agency took down on Wednesday a banner that read "The rise of Pribumi Muslims" on Jalan Raya Menteng, Central…
Jakarta Post - October 19, 2017
Jakarta – Some 1,000 people who intended to demand the closure of North Jakarta's Alexis Hotel, widely believed to be a high-class brothel, have…
Jakarta Post - October 19, 2017
Panca Nugraha, Mataram – Some 400 participants attending the International Conference of Al Azhar Alumni at the Islamic Center in Mataram, West…
October 18, 2017
Jakarta Post - October 18, 2017
Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Indonesia's second largest Islamic organization Muhammadiyah has urged Aceh authorities to track down and arrest…
CNN Indonesia - October 18, 2017
Riva Dessthania Suastha, Jakarta – The Indonesian government will check the validity and accuracy of scores of recently declassified US documents…
Detik News - October 18, 2017
Erwin Dariyanto, Jakarta – Following the September 30 Movement (G30S) movement in 1965 there were tensions between the military and then…
Jakarta Post - October 18, 2017
Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Muhammadiyah, the second largest Muslim organization in the country, has played down newly declassified US…
Jakarta Post - October 18, 2017
Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Newly declassified US government files have revealed that the Indonesian Army planned to overthrow Sukarno after…
Voice of America - October 18, 2017
Krithika Varagur, Jakarta, Indonesia – On Tuesday, nearly 30,000 pages of declassified records from the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta between 1964 and…
Associated Press - October 18, 2017
Stephen Wright, Jakarta – Declassified files have revealed new details of US government knowledge and support of an Indonesian army extermination…
CNN Indonesia - October 18, 2017
Joko Panji Sasongko, Jakarta – Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu says he will meet with the US Secretary of State to request an explanation about…
Kompas.com - October 18, 2017
Moh. Nadlir, Jakarta – The government says there are still groups of social organisations (ormas) and individuals that explicitly want to replace…
Jakarta Globe - October 18, 2017
Jakarta – Twenty-seven political parties have registered with the General Elections Commission, or KPU, to compete in the legislative election in…
Jakarta Post - October 18, 2017
Jakarta – Vice President Jusuf Kalla said on Tuesday that the National Police should not establish an anticorruption squad, as the force has…
Human Rights Watch Statement - October 18, 2017
New York – Newly released US government documents on the mass killings in Indonesia in 1965-66 underscore the need for the US and Indonesian…
Macauhub - October 18, 2017
The government of Timor-Leste (East Timor) intends to double non-oil tax revenues to US$400 million a year with the introduction of Value Added…
October 17, 2017
Reuters - October 17, 2017
Kanupriya Kapoor, Agustinus Beo Da Costa. Jakarta – The new governor of Indonesia's capital faced a barrage of criticism on Tuesday for remarks in…
Jakarta Post - October 17, 2017
Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Newly inaugurated Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has already stirred up controversy on his first full day in…
Jakarta Post - October 17, 2017
N. Adri, Balikpapan – Carrying kitchenware, hundreds of women in green outfits rallied in front of the Balikpapan Legislative Council in East…
National Security Archive - October 17, 2017
Washington, D.C. – The U.S. government had detailed knowledge that the Indonesian Army was conducting a campaign of mass murder against the…
Bloomberg - October 17, 2017
Rieka Rahadiana, Thomas Kutty Abraham and Rosalind Mathieson, Jakarta – Indonesia will turn to private investors for the hundreds of billions of…
Associated Press - October 17, 2017
Jakarta – Declassified files have revealed new details of US government knowledge of and support for an Indonesian army extermination campaign…
Dili Weekly - October 17, 2017
Paulina Quintao – The government through the National Commission of Food Security and Nutrition (KONSSANTIL) held a meeting with non-government…
BBC News - October 17, 2017
Rebecca Henschke, Jakarta – The US knew people were being "delivered for slaughter" during a political purge in Indonesia during the 1960s,…
Dili Weekly - October 17, 2017
Paulina Quintao – The rate of Anemia has been increasing in the country according to data from the Timor-Leste Food and Nutrition survey 2013,…
Thomas Reuters Foundation - October 17, 2017
Kuala Lumpur – Like millions of Indonesian women who earn a living through domestic work, Leni Suryani thought that long hours for a meager salary…
October 16, 2017
Asian Human Rights Commission Urgent Appeal - October 16, 2017
Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAU-008-2017
[RE: AHRC-UAC-027-2017: Police fail to effectively investigate acid attack on senior anti-graft…
Reuters - October 16, 2017
Jakarta – Days after a long-running Indonesian television comedy aired last month, its producers got a letter from the broadcast commission…
Indonesia at Melbourne - October 16, 2017
Richard Chauvel – It is easy to over-interpret the body language of government officials in photographs, but Papua Governor Lukas Enembe (third…
Jakarta Post - October 16, 2017
Marchio Gorbiano, Jakarta – Indonesia recorded a US$1.76 billion trade surplus in September as exports reached $14.54 billion in September, a 15.6…
Jakarta Post - October 16, 2017
Jakarta – As many as 18 judges were given disciplinary sanctions between June and September this year following arrests made by the Corruption…
Sydney Morning Herald - October 16, 2017
Lindsay Murdoch, Bangkok – A landmark agreement to develop billions of dollars' worth of oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea has been referred…
UNFPA - October 16, 2017
As rain rat-a-tats on a flimsy tin roof, baby Afeena lies sleeping. On the walls, pieces of cardboard are tacked up, to give warmth, while across…
Asia Pacific Report - October 16, 2017
Dames Alexander Sinaga, Jakarta – A civil society group has urged the Indonesian government to revoke a presidential decree on the indigenous…
Human Rights Watch - October 16, 2017
Phelim Kine – Indonesia's National Narcotics Agency (BNN) head has an innovative approach to reducing incarceration costs: killing drug suspects…
October 15, 2017
Jakarta Globe - October 15, 2017
Jakarta – The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights is in the process of recruiting 14,000 new prison guards as part of its efforts to hire a total…
SBS News - October 15, 2017
Australia and Timor Leste have drawn up a draft treaty setting out their maritime borders, aiming to end a bitter dispute over lucrative oil and…
Garland Magazine - October 15, 2017
In the far-east of Timor-Leste, where the road narrows to one lane overhung with vegetation, where crocodiles still lurk in the rivers, and where…
Jakarta Globe - October 15, 2017
Jakarta – The government will soon issue an integrated regulation on the purchase and use of weapons, a senior minister said on Friday (13/10),…
Jakarta Post - October 15, 2017
Viriya P. Singgih, Jakarta – State electricity firm PLN is still struggling to boost its electricity sales volume amid mounting financial burdens…
Jakarta Post - October 15, 2017
Winny Tang, Jakarta – Ahead of the 2019 presidential election, Indonesia's economic growth will be better than this year as long as the commodity…
The Guardian (Australia) - October 15, 2017
Robin McKie – Nona is a Sulawesi crested black macaque. Photographed here by Stefano Unterthiner, she is seen chained to a chair outside the house…
October 14, 2017
Jakarta Globe - October 14, 2017
Jakarta – The Indonesian Consumer Protection Foundation, or YLKI, has warned the government about potential data breaches if the latter follows…
The Diplomat - October 14, 2017
Luke Hunt – The problems of Indonesian President Joko Widodo are many. A revival of the communist party and politically expedient alliances…
South China Morning Post - October 14, 2017
Resty Woro Yuniar – Creeping Islamisation in Southeast Asia's Muslim-majority countries is threatening to undo recent progress in gender equality…