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Under Indonesia's new criminal code, rights groups fear more women will be forced to marry their rapists to escape prosecution

Three women's rights groups say Indonesia's controversial new criminal code will make it easier and more common for sexual assault victims to be forced into marrying their own rapists. WARNING: Readers may find details in this story distressing.

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Warning issued after nearly 200 children die from contaminated cough syrup in Indonesia

Parents have been given an urgent warning over 'substandard' medicine after suspected contamination of cough syrup in Indonesia led to the deaths of almost 200 people, mostly children

Daily Mirror

Indonesia's 'blue carbon credits' are crucial for global climate mitigation. Here's how to help them flourish

Indonesia’s mangroves and seagrass are one of the key to global climate mitigation efforts, as they store around 17% of the world’s “blue carbon”.

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DDC urges polio jabs for kids

The Public Health Ministry is on full alert to administer the polio vaccine to Thai kids aged under five years old as almost 600 polio cases were recently detected in 22 countries, including Indonesia.

Bangkok Post

In Indonesia, nearly 200 children have died from contaminated syrup medicines. Others have been left with debilitating injuries

Since August, hundreds more Indonesian children have suffered Acute Kidney Injury after taking contaminated syrup medicines. How such high concentrations made it into children's cough syrups and liquid paracetamol is still unclear.

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Woman killed in tug-of-war game after rope pings back and drags her into concrete block

Masita B was participating in a world record attempt in Makassar, Indonesia, on Sunday when suddenly the mile-long rope pinged back and dragged her into a concrete barrier

Daily Mirror

Indonesia bans bauxite exports in latest protectionist move

JAKARTA: Indonesia will impose a ban on bauxite exports from the middle of next year, the country’s latest move aimed at boosting domestic processing of its mineral resources.

Bangkok Post

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Indonesian research access: quantity over quality?

Prestige drove Indonesian universities to open their research to the world. Now they need to tidy their files.

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Independent in Indonesia

Interest in recorded music, led by DJs and "crate-diggers", has shone a light on some fascinating popular music genres over the past 20-odd years. Soundway Records, set up by Miles Claret in the UK, released its first compilation in 2002 on Afrobeat, funk and fusion from Ghana in the 1970s,…

Bangkok Post

Rescue calls for boat stranded near Thailand holding 200 Rohingya refugees

Southeast Asian politicians called Tuesday for the rescue of a boat carrying as many as 200 Rohingya refugees including women and children stranded at sea for several weeks.

Bangkok Post

Politics and Islam bring Indonesian compromise on criminal code

Indonesia's new criminal code has grabbed headlines for making sex outside marriage illegal but Islamic parties wanted even harsher punishment for moral crimes in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation, accounts of behind-the-scenes negotiations reveal.

Reuters

YouTubers Go Off-Roading For The First Time In Lombok, Indonesia

Content creator collective TRI333PLE sends Amos and Winston on an Indonesian dirt bike tour for the group’s latest YouTube video.

RideApart

Myanmar and two new game-changers

The recently passed bill by Congress, known broadly as the 2022 Burma Act, which allows the US government to provide technical support and non-military assistance to engage with the opposition groups against the military junta in Nay Pyi Taw combined with the incoming Asean chair, Indonesia, could be a game-changer…

Bangkok Post

What are mud volcanoes?

Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a strange sight on May 29, 2006. The ground had ruptured overnight and was spewing out steam.

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Sri Lanka navy rescues over 100 Rohingya adrift in rough seas

Navy says 104 people found on board a trawler suspected to have originated from Myanmar and heading to Indonesia.

Bangkok Post

Two calves of endangered Javan rhinos spotted in Indonesia

JAKARTA: Indonesia has welcomed two baby Javan rhinoceroses to a family of one of the world's most endangered species, the environment and forestry ministry said.

Reuters

Indonesia president supports plan to scale back troops in restive Papua

Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Monday he supports plans to scale back the presence of troops in the eastern region of Papua, where the country's military has been accused of human rights abuses in tackling a long-running independence movement.

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How crowdfunding could raise US$12 billion to boost renewable energy access in Indonesia

Indonesia has a target to have 23% of its energy mix coming from renewable sources by 2025, and the country needs at least Rp 1,600 trillion (US$102.4 billion) to make that happen.

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Old tribal law can protect sealife at risk from climate change

A Moluccan tribal tradition helps protect marine resources under threat from climate change

Bangkok Post

Honour models for democracy

Since the 1998 ouster of the dictator Suharto -- who ruled Indonesia with an iron fist for over three decades -- the world's fourth most populous nation has undergone a series of rapid changes. Once dependent on foreign aid to exercise its basic functions, Indonesia has firmly established itself as…

Reuters

Explainer-What the world's nature-rich nations want out of a global conservation deal

Tangled expanses of Amazon rainforest, high mountains of the Himalayas, and cloud-shrouded forests are just some of the unique landscapes contained within the world's most nature-rich nations. And protecting these ecosystems, experts say, could help save the planet.

AAP

Govt in talks over live cattle export ban

The Albanese government is trying to settle claims against farmers over an "unreasonable and capricious" ban on live cattle exports to Indonesia in 2011.

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss blew £370k on G20 flight to Bali - then flew straight back to launch PM bid

Then Foreign Secretary, Ms Truss took a 18-hour flight to Indonesia for the summit, at which foreign ministers hoped to put pressure on Russia over the invasion of Ukraine - but turned around almost immediately when Boris Johnson resigned

Tribune News Service

Indonesia struggles to build military that can stave off China

Indonesia is confronting challenges overhauling its aging military despite a spending splurge to face down threats that include a long-running territorial dispute with its biggest trading partner, China.

Reuters

Indonesia parliament approves extradition treaty with Singapore

Indonesia's parliament passed into law a bilateral extradition agreement with Singapore on Thursday, in a move Jakarta expects to help authorities bring to justice people accused of stashing offshore billions of dollars of state money in the city-state.

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