Story Archive
2015-06-25
West Java businessman Chep Hernawan is serving a six-month sentence for fraud and embezzlement.
2015-06-19
Refugee’s 11-year odyssey has taken him from Myanmar to Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.
2015-06-17
A half-billion followers of Islam, from Indonesia in the east to India in the west, will refrain from food and drink for a month, from sunup to sundown.
2015-06-15
Meanwhile, the Australian prime minister refuses to confirm or deny that a navy ship paid money to a crew of people smugglers.
2015-06-12
Defendant describes clandestine boat journey from Malaysia to Indonesia.
2015-06-12
Australia hosts a summit on combatting the threat posed by the Islamic State and other extremist groups.
2015-06-11
Families have lived in low-cost hotels in Medan for years – and not one has been granted asylum in a third country.
2015-06-09
The new unit incorporates the best from the military’s three branches.
2015-06-05
Wayang, a centuries-old art form, predates Islam in Indonesia.
2015-06-01
But events around the book’s launch– especially one that involved a fashion contest – are drawing protests.
2015-05-29
Migrants recount beatings by smugglers and deadly fights at sea.
2015-05-26
After a traumatic journey by boat, 15-year-old does not want to go back to a refugee camp in Bangladesh.
2015-05-20
Thailand turned away their boat three times, and Malaysian sailors threatened to shoot them if they did not leave territorial waters, passengers say.
2015-05-15
“There is no Rohingya in Myanmar,” official says, as fishermen pull hundreds from the sea near Indonesia.
2015-05-14
Such tests have nothing do to with national security and discriminate against women, human rights activists say.
