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Players and officials of the soccer club Arema FC pray outside the Kanjuruhan Stadium where many fans lost their lives in a stampede Saturday night in Malang, Indonesia
Police
Indonesian police probe tear gas firing at soccer match
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.
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Brazil struggles with new COVID-19 strain; Entire Dutch government resigns over child welfare scandal; Deadly earthquake hits Indonesia
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’
Arts, Culture & Media
Jakarta Vinyl
Samson Pho (behind windows)
Culture
Jakarta is having a vinyl renaissance
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.
A woman shouts slogans during a demostration in Istanbul against the murder of a young woman named Özgecan Aslan.
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Indonesian fires create a haze throughout Southeast Asia
Environment
To slow climate change, you have to start here
Echa wears the hijab because it's the law for women in Aceh. Echa is transgender, and when she wears the headscarf, she says no one calls her names.
Justice
A transgender woman in Aceh, Indonesia gathers strength as new anti-gay sex laws roll out
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
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
Australia's prime minister Tony Abbott
Global Politics
Australia’s spy service has its own embarrassing moment, thanks to Snowden
Rose and Alfrits Monintja outside of their home in the New York City borough of Queens. The Monintjas are originally from the village of Sonder in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and are among an estimated 100,000 people who speak the disappearing language Ton
Arts, Culture & Media
When New Yorker Rose Monintja speaks her native tongue, the memories flood back
Where the Forest Ends
Development & Education
The economic cold war in Indonesia
Development & Education
The effect of the global financial crisis on Indonesia
Deforestation in Indonesia
Arts, Culture & Media
Bali Woodcarver Making High-end Guitars
Conflict & Justice
Indonesia Offers A Lesson For Egypt
Global Politics
Indonesia’s movie crisis
The World in Words
Podcast: The US Government’s Metaphor Program
Environmentalism, Indonesian Style
Java Trees
Java Trees
Indonesian Waters
Illegal Logging in Indonesia
Environment
Dual disasters leave Indonesia in peril
Update on the Bombings in Jakarta
Global Politics
Hillary Clinton makes a stop in Jakarta, Indonesia
Global Politics
Obama to address Muslim world from Indonesia
Global Politics
Indonesia’s twin disasters
Local residents help replant mangrove trees on a degraded beach on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Tropical mangroves are vital for both fish habitat and protection from storms, but over the last few decades they've been disappearing around the world a
Environment
Restoring mangroves in Indonesia
Lifestyle & Belief
Indonesia’s efforts against Islamic extremism
Environment
Geo quiz and answer
Lifestyle & Belief
Controversy over Indonesian Islamic sect
Indonesia reconsiders Suharto
Indonesia’s
Arts, Culture & Media
Lessons from Indonesia’s popular uprising
Arts, Culture & Media
Coffee and music in Indonesia