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In this Oct. 17, 2014, photo, a worker walks at power plant area in Cirebon, Indonesia. 
Energy
Indonesia poised to ease export ban on thermal coal
A woman is show with her face in her hands and crouched down with a man next to her with his hand on her shoulder.
Top of The World
Brazil struggles with new COVID-19 strain; Entire Dutch government resigns over child welfare scandal; Deadly earthquake hits Indonesia
Supporters of Rizieq Shihab, leader of the Islam Defenders Front, confront police officers during a rally in Jakarta, Indonesia, Dec. 18, 2020. Hundreds of protesters marched in Indonesia's capital on Friday to demand the release of the firebrand cleric w
Sacred Nation
Indonesia outlaws one of the world’s largest vigilante groups
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Global Politics
Indonesia’s bold plan: Moving its capital to an island paradise
Young boys wearing white robes and caps stand behind green flag with Arabic script.
Religion
The world’s largest Islamic group wants Muslims to stop saying ‘infidel’
A rescue team aboard a boat is shown heading out to the Lion Air flight JT610 sea crash location.
Environment
Doomed Indonesian plane with 189 on board had asked to return to base
A boy collects plastic from a garbage-covered river in Manila, 2010.
Global Politics
Plastic trash is a big problem. How much do you throw away? (QUIZ)
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Business
Forget pizza. In Jakarta, this delivery app will send a stranger to style your hijab.
Scavengers search for items to recycle at a waste dump in Bogor, a city in Indonesia's West Java province, on June 3, 2013.
Economics
The world is ignoring one of cheap oil’s biggest victims
Feri Yadi, a resident of Muara Baru in North Jakarta, stands atop the seawall recently built to protect his neighborhood. He has little confidence that the wall will work as expected. "Like in the past, this will be broken somehow" he says.
Environment
Need the latest news on flooding? In Jakarta, there’s an app for that.
An abandoned mosque outside the seawall in Muara Baru, Jakarta. The city is sinking as a result of massive groundwater extraction, and the problem is especially bad in Muara Barus, which is already below sea level.
Environment
Trying to confront a massive flood risk, Jakarta faces ‘problem on top of problem’
A woman places carnations at the scene of a suicide bombing at Istiklal Street, a major shopping and tourist district, in central Istanbul, Turkey.
Conflict
By the numbers: The terror attacks we paid attention to
An Indonesian policeman near a broken window from a Starbucks outlet in Jakarta, Jan. 14.
Global Politics
Here’s what we know about ISIS’s influence in Indonesia
Puteri Hasannah Karunia is a popular fashion blogger, one of Indonesia's generation of young Muslim fashionistas known as "hijabers."
Belief
Hijab fashion is so popular in Indonesia non-Muslim designers are getting in on it
A-bomb survivors: My mom and her mother Jettie on board the ship Oranje, which had been a hospital vessel during the war. They were on the boat’s first post-war civilian transport, making the crossing here from Java to Melbourne, Australia in November 194
Conflict
The Bomb saved my mom
Benny Handoko discusses his Twitter defamation case with Susy Rizky, one of his supporters, after a defense hearing.
Conflict & Justice
It was just a tweet, but this former construction worker might go to jail for it
Global Scan
Welcome to Sochi?
Arts, Culture & Media
A late bell, silent prayers and the world’s largest fireworks show greet the new year
Nicholas Saputra
Arts, Culture & Media
Indonesia’s social media savvy moves it onto the Movember map
Where the Forest Ends
Development & Education
Flood refugees begin returning to Jakarta; Indonesia braces for more rain
Tourists flocking to tsunami-scarred Indonesian communities
VIDEO: Hopes fading for finding survivors of boat crash off Indonesia
Locals in Indonesia making a living as rented carpool riders
What soft power looks like: US influence in Indonesia
Arts, Culture & Media
Young Obama, the movie, premiers in Jakarta
Development & Education
The effect of the global financial crisis on Indonesia
Business, Economics and Jobs
World Bicycle Relief
The World in Words
Holly, Tea, and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Top Wikipedia in 2012
Arts, Culture & Media
First Ever Pasta Championship Held in Italy
Conflict & Justice
Indonesian Women to Get Husbands’ Salaries
Lifestyle & Belief
Banda Aceh Authorities Arrest Punk Rock Concertgoers for ‘Moral Rehabilitation’
Global Politics
Stopping Indonesia’s Roof Riders with Threatening Concrete Balls
Environment
Tsunami Tourism in Indonesia
Conflict & Justice
Indonesia Offers A Lesson For Egypt
Arts, Culture & Media
US Reaches Out to Young People in Indonesia
Business, Economics and Jobs
Poor Indonesians Make Money in Jakarta’s Traffic as Jockeys
Global Politics
What Indonesian Health Officials Aren’t Doing to Combat Smoking
Global Politics
Indonesia’s movie crisis
The World in Words
Podcast: The US Government’s Metaphor Program
Environmentalism, Indonesian Style
Indonesian Fires Keep Burning
Jakarta Water Woes
Arts, Culture & Media
Barack Obama: the movie
Update on the Bombings in Jakarta
Bombings Rock Jakarta
Development & Education
Get On The Bus, Gus: Bus Rapid Transit Takes Hold
Global Politics
Hillary Clinton makes a stop in Jakarta, Indonesia
Global Politics
Coffee and music in Indonesia
Global Politics
Indonesia’s twin disasters
Conflict & Justice
Obama cancels Indonesia trip
Environment
Surviving the tsunami
Environment
Geo quiz and answer
Business, Economics and Jobs
Jakarta report