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The Indonesian government's plans to issue new history books have sparked fears that mention of deadly riots in 1998 ...
Witnesses have recalled a painful past after an Indonesian minister questioned whether mass rape occurred during 1998 riots ...
While there are continued disputes about the compatibility of Islam and democracy, many Muslim-majority democracies exist.
The Indonesian government plans to revise the country’s official historical narrative by launching a new 10-volume series of ...
Former President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s decision not to run for the chairmanship of the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) means his youngest child Kaesang Pangarep will remain in the political ...
A growing wave of international condemnation has poured in over the renewed effort to name late president Suharto (pic, left) as a national hero, with a coalition of global civic groups warning ...
Social media users have fallen for an AI-generated clip that appears to show Indonesian dictator Suharto commenting on a claim that former president Joko "Jokowi" Widodo had falsified his academic ...
As social and economic conditions decline and the danger of a US-instigated war against China looms, the Indonesian ruling class believes Prabowo is best equipped to suppress workers’ growing anger.
A move by Indonesian legislators to expunge the late former president Suharto’s name from a corruption decree and a proposal to award him a national hero title have drawn condemnation from ...
Rights activists and families of victims of human rights abuses committed by former Indonesian president Suharto’s regime have slammed a proposed move by the country's parliament to confer the title ...
JAKARTA: The children of former president Suharto have offered an apology for his past mistakes, in a gesture made after a controversial People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) decision to remove ...
Referred to in a US diplomatic cable as “Suharto’s Australian Whisperer”, Clive Henry Williams played a pivotal role as the close confidant and unofficial emissary of Indonesia’s second ...