Showing posts with label indonesia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label indonesia. Show all posts
Monday, February 19, 2024

A look at some of the dirty tricks used in Indonesia's recent presidential election

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New Mandala : Once heralded as a new hope for democratic Indonesia, over the course of his second term [the current president] had become in...
Monday, October 3, 2022

A documentary from 2019 discussing the incredible level of hooligan violence at Indonesian soccer games

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From a new AP Article about the deaths of 125 people at a single match: The soccer association, known locally as PSSI, has long struggled t...
Monday, April 29, 2019

"Indonesia is moving its capital city away from Jakarta"

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BBC : Jakarta, home to over 10 million people, is sinking at one of the fastest rates in the world. ... The idea of moving the capital...
Thursday, August 10, 2017

"A colossal statue of a Chinese god has been unceremoniously covered up by a giant white sheet in Indonesia after upsetting the local Muslim population"

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Sha : The 30.4-meter-tall statue reportedly cost 2.5 billion Indonesian rupiahs ($187,000) to build and was funded by private donations to...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

"In less than 18 months, being gay in Indonesia has gone from widely tolerated to just plain dangerous"

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CNN : The world's largest Muslim democracy, Indonesia is often considered something of a bulwark of tolerance amid growing conservatis...
Friday, November 25, 2016

"Jakarta's violent identity crisis: behind the vilification of Chinese-Indonesians"

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Guardian : Chinese-Indonesians – estimated to make up 1% to 4% of the country’s 250 million people – have had an impact on Jakarta which i...