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Indonesia Begins COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout – and Jokowi Is First to Get Jab

Indonesia has kicked off Southeast Asia’s largest inoculation program against Covid-19 to curb its record increase in infections, using Sinovac Biotech’s vaccine. President Joko Widodo […]

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A Racial Justice Campaign Brought New Attention to Indonesia’s Poorest Region. Will It Translate to Support for Independence?

As racial justice protests swept the U.S. this summer, a related movement was taking hold thousands of miles away in Indonesia. Papuan Lives Matter began […]

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Free Speech Groups Call for Release of U.S. Environmental Journalist Arrested in Indonesia

Free speech advocates are calling for the release of an American journalist for an environmental news site after he was jailed on this week in […]

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Jakarta Airport Reopens After Worst Flooding in 7 Years Leaves 16 Dead

Indonesian authorities re-opened the Halim Perdanakusuma airport in Jakarta for limited operations, as the death toll rises from the city’s worst flooding in almost seven […]

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Protests in West Papua Have Turned Violent Amid an Internet Blackout. Here’s What to Know

Protests have gripped the Indonesian province of West Papua for more than a week as racial and political tensions boiled over into violence. Information is […]

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