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Tari Lang in her new memoir recalls the morning of October 1, 1965, when as a 14-year-old, she had watched Indonesian tanks and soldiers sweep into the elite neighborhood in Jakarta where she lived ...

Press freedom groups rank China as the world's top jailer of journalists, with 112 journalists and media workers currently behind bars, alongside another eight in Hong Kong in the wake of Beijing's ...

Indonesia’s revised criminal code will take effect in three months, expanding its blasphemy laws from one to six articles and introducing new clauses that critics say are vague and open to abuse. The ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has appointed a former rival as the new security minister following deadly protests that have been viewed as one of the toughest tests for his presidency ...

JAKARTA, Oct 15 (Reuters) - When Indonesian President Joko Widodo was first inaugurated in 2014, his eldest son didn't want to be there. Gibran Rakabuming Raka, then 27, had spent much of his life ...

With six weeks left in Indonesia’s presidential office, Joko Widodo continues to try tie up loose ends before handing over power to his successor, Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto, on 20 October. But ...

Pope Francis called on Indonesia to battle extremism this week during his 11-day trip through parts of Southeast Asia. On Wednesday, Pope Francis met with Indonesian President Joko Widodo and ...

As Indonesia’s Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, closes the curtains on his decade-long presidency, with his successor’s inauguration set for Oct. 20, he’s racing to raise the curtain on ...

PENAJAM PASER UTARA, Indonesia — Outgoing Indonesian President Joko Widodo started work Monday from the new presidential palace in his country's ambitious new capital, where he intends to spend the ...