List of Indonesia articles
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A man browses the specific gay emojis from an instant messaging application in Jakarta on February 12, 2016. In the latest crackdown on homosexuality in Indonesia, the government has demanded all instant messaging apps remove LGBT emoticons or face a ban in the Muslim-majority country. AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO / AFP / BAY ISMOYO (Photo credit should read BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images) Indonesian Official: Gay Emojis Could Cause Civil Unrest
Indonesia is looking to ban same-sex emojis. This certainly isn't the first time they've tried to censor "un-Islamic" content from the Internet.
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TOPSHOT - Indonesian armed military patrol the area near cafe after a series of blasts hit Jakarta on January 14, 2016. An attack on Jakarta is over and no more perpertators are at large, police said on January 14, after gunfire and explosions left seven dead in the Indonesian capital. AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO / AFP / BAY ISMOYO (Photo credit should read BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images) To Understand Why the Islamic State Just Hit Jakarta, Don’t Look to Paris — Look to Indonesia
Despite the ISIS connection, the Jakarta assault showed evidence of motivations and patterns particular to Indonesia.
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GettyImages-531682747 What Foreign Policy Staff Read in 2015
FP staff share some of the best books they read in 2015.
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GettyImages-455733658 CROPPED When You Close Your Eyes and Think of America, What Do You See?
Why nationalism can be a force for good. (But beware of the dark side.)
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Indonesian police stand guard to secure the area around Kerobokan prison in Denpasar on Bali island on March 4, 2015 as authorities take two Australian drug smugglers on death row from the prison to the airport for a flight to transfer them to a high-security prison off Java island ahead of their planned execution. Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, the ringleaders of the so-called "Bali Nine" drug smuggling gang, were woken up early and given a few minutes to get ready, a local justice ministry official said. The men, in their early 30s, were convicted of trying to smuggle heroin out of Indonesia in 2005 and sentenced to death the following year. AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA (Photo credit should read SONNY TUMBELAKA/AFP/Getty Images) ‘You Can’t Bribe Crocodiles,’ Says Indonesian Who Suggests Guarding Prison With Crocodiles
An Indonesian official who suggested using crocodiles to guard an island prison has now suggested adding tigers and piranhas to the mix.
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GettyImages-469892566 Whatever Happened to Indonesia’s Answer to Obama?
President Joko Widodo has become an embarrassment for many young Indonesians, like me.
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epa04976896 Security forces inspect the scene of a burned Church in Aceh Singkil, Indonesia, 14 October 2015. According to reports, a man was killed and three Churches were set ablaze during clashes between hundreds of hardliner Islamists and local Christians in the province of Aceh. EPA/HOTLI SIMANJUNTAK Islamist Hard-Liners Attack Indonesian Churches
Local authorities often cooperate with vigilantes who demand church closures.
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exchange_septoct_2015 The Exchange: Joshua Oppenheimer and David Rieff on Genocide
How different are victims from victimizers?
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Screen Shot 2015-09-04 at 4.01.03 PM Let’s Make Indonesia Great Again
The strange love affair between Indonesia’s speaker of the house, a volcano-fracking tycoon, and Donald Trump.
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FP_podcast_article_artwork-1-globalthinkers Global Thinkers: Understanding Genocide’s Perpetrators
From Indonesia to Syria, just how different are victims from victimizers?
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SILENCE_Glasses Fitting An Act of Empathy
Joshua Oppenheimer’s unsettling new film, "The Look of Silence," raises questions about the troubling relationship between global capitalism and western complicity.
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GettyImages-462004634 cropped The Gecko’s Bite
Indonesia’s anti-corruption commission has made great strides in combating graft. But now it risks becoming a victim of its own success.
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bangladeshi The Solution to Southeast Asia’s Migrant Crisis That Is No Solution At All
While Malaysia and Indonesia’s offer may save the lives of the thousands of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants who have been starving on over-crowded boats as monsoon season ramps up, it does nothing to resolve the broader issues behind the crisis.
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opener_grab Illusions of Grandeur: The Battle for Papuan Freedom Will Be Waged From … Wyoming?
John Anari is a West Papuan independence activist. Tom Bleming is a retired American gunrunner. Together they want to win the South Pacific's next great freedom struggle.
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471303086 Why Did Indonesia Just Execute Eight People for Drug Crimes?
Jakarta's execution spree is a bloody but misguided effort to crack down on narcotics smuggling.
