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Indonesia's energy subsidy dilemma: how can the government better protect the poor?

The Indonesian government’s policy of providing subsidies to shield the public from the effects of global energy price hikes will burden the state budget. It’s also potentially insufficient to protect the poor.

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LGBTQ activists in Peru demand autopsy for death in Bali

LGBTQ rights activists in Peru have rallied outside the prosecutor’s office to demand an autopsy be performed on a Peruvian transgender man who died earlier this month after being detained on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali

The Independent UK

AP PHOTOS: Living amid flood in Indonesia, unable to leave

The rice fields are washed away. Coconut trees and chili plants, flooded with salt water, are all dead. The farmers’ fish ponds fail, the water getting so high that the fish swim over the nets. And trash carried by the tides float in and out of homes with doors that…

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Health or economy? Making the best impossible decision in the face of COVID-19

When Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy, first began grappling with COVID in 2020, its government was widely criticised for choosing to save the economy over people’s lives in its COVID-19 policies.

The Conversation

10 killed in Indonesia in truck crash outside school

BEKASI, Indonesia: At least 10 people have been killed, including some children, after a truck crashed on Wednesday near a bus stop outside a school in Indonesia's West Java province, police said.

Bangkok Post

Ten killed in Indonesia in truck crash outside school

At least 10 people have been killed, including some children, after a truck crashed on Wednesday near a bus stop outside a school in Indonesia's West Java province, police said.

Reuters

Exclusive-Lula pushes Brazil-Indonesia-Congo rainforest alliance if elected

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's aides are reaching out to Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo to form a united front of countries with the most tropical rainforest at this year's U.N. climate talks if the leftist wins a new term.

Reuters

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Truck in Indonesia crashes at school bus stop, killing 10

A truck transporting iron on the outskirts of Indonesia’s capital has crashed at a bus stop in front of a school and killed at least 10 people, most of them elementary students

The Independent UK

G20 climate talks in Indonesia fail to agree communique

Officials from the Group of 20 major economies meeting on Wednesday for climate talks in Bali have been unable to agree a joint communique, amid objections over language used on climate targets and the war in Ukraine, two sources told Reuters.

Reuters

G20 environment ministers in Bali spur global climate action

Environment officials from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations are gathering in Indonesia for talks to spur global climate action and other troubles

The Independent UK

Cambodian psychiatrist helping genocide survivors wins Magsaysay

A Cambodian psychiatrist treating victims of the Khmer Rouge and a French environmentalist cleaning up Indonesian rivers were among the winners Wednesday of the 2022 Ramon Magsaysay Award -- considered Asia's Nobel Prize.

Bangkok Post

From littered Bali beaches to sustainable tourism

Villagers in the island of Java set the rules for tourists visiting their area, working with the local government to help protect popular sites.

360info

Indonesia's rural villages offer lessons for global tourism

The Dieng Plateau is a case study of community-led tourism development done well. The programme has helped the entire economic region.

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Thailand, Indonesia drawn in same group

Defending Asean champions Thailand and last year's runners-up Indonesia were drawn in Group A for the first round battles of this year's competition which has been renamed the Mitsubishi Electric Cup.

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Champions Thailand to face Indonesia in football’s Asean Championship group phase

Defending champions Thailand will face last year's runners-up Indonesia in the group phase of the Asean Football Federation Championship after the draw was made on Tuesday.

Bangkok Post

Indonesia parliament approves membership of China-backed regional trade deal

JAKARTA: Indonesia's parliament on Tuesday passed a law cementing the country's membership of the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), making it the latest Southeast Asian nation to join the world's biggest trade bloc.

360info

Indonesia’s zero tolerance drug laws leave hundreds on death row

Indonesia’s war on drugs hasn’t worked. Hundreds are on death row, executions are regular and the drug trade carries on.

ABC News

Soon-to be-released Bali bombmaker Umar Patek participated in a 'deradicalisation' program. Do they actually work?

Bali bombmaker Umar Patek says he is committed to assisting the Indonesian government deradicalising other extremists after he is released from prison. So, what is a deradicalisation program and do they work?

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Indonesia to investigate claims fruit pickers charged thousands to work in Kent

Exclusive: Taskforce begins work after labourers told Guardian they faced huge debts to unlicensed brokers in Bali

Bangkok Post

Indonesia to investigate military officers for alleged murders in Papua

JAKARTA: Authorities in Indonesia's Papua region have detained six army officers and launched an investigation into their alleged involvement in the brutal murder of four civilians last week, military officials said on Monday.

Reuters

Indonesia to investigate army officers over Papua killings

Authorities in Indonesia's Papua region have detained six army officers and launched an investigation into their alleged involvement in the brutal killing of four civilians last week, military officials said on Monday.

ABC News

Discovery of illegal Indonesian fishing camp on Kimberley coast prompts biosecurity, border concerns

The Indonesian fishing camp on the northern WA coast has sparked concerns about how the crew was able to come and go undetected by the Australian Border Force.

Reuters

Indonesia to shift $1.6 billion portion of fuel subsidy budget to welfare programmes

Indonesia will reallocate 24.17 trillion rupiah ($1.62 billion), or nearly 5%, of its fuel subsidy budget to social spending, including cash handouts to 20.65 million households, its finance minister said on Monday.

Reuters

6.1-magnitude quake strikes off Indonesia's Sumatra island

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island, the third tremor to rattle the area since early Monday, according to the country's geophysics agency.

The Guardian - UK

A new start after 60: ‘I’ve finally become the artist I always felt I was inside’

Anne Henriksen, 67, ran a crafts shop, worked in the theatre and spent 20 years driving taxis. But she only found her role in life after seeing some stone carvings in an Indonesian temple

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