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Feb 6, 2019

Indonesia sentences Briton to 6 months for slapping official

A British woman who slapped an immigration officer on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali after missing her flight due to an expired visa has been sentenced to six months in prison


Jan 24, 2019

Governor convicted of blasphemy freed from Indonesian prison

A polarizing Christian politician whose campaign comments ignited the largest protests in years in Muslim-majority Indonesia has been freed after serving nearly two years in prison for blasphemy


Jan 21, 2019

Indonesia cleric's release uncertain as gov't starts review

Indonesia's government is reviewing the president's decision to release radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir following domestic and international criticism.


Jan 19, 2019

Indonesia cleric to be freed despite holding to radicalism

Lawyers say the Islamic cleric who was the ideological leader of the Bali bombers and other Indonesian militants is being freed after the country's president relented on a requirement he renounce radical beliefs


Jan 18, 2019

Indonesia leader to free radical cleric behind Bali bombings

Indonesia's president says the ailing 80-year-old radical cleric who inspired the Bali bombers and other violent extremists in Indonesia will be released from prison


Jan 14, 2019

Indonesia recovers Lion Air jet's cockpit voice recorder

Indonesia navy divers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder of a Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea in October


Dec 14, 2018

Official vows action after AP reports missing migrant girls

An Indonesian official is vowing to do more to combat human trafficking after an investigation by The Associated Press revealed that scores of trafficked girls have quietly disappeared from one of the nation's poorest regions


Dec 13, 2018

Lost girls of Indonesia among 61k dead and missing migrants

Teenage Indonesian girls are disappearing into a trafficking network that has descended upon the country's impoverished province of East Nusa Tenggara


Dec 13, 2018

Indonesia arrests 5 foreigners in Bali for drug smuggling

Indonesian police say some of the five foreigners who have been arrested for alleged drug smuggling on the tourist island of Bali since the end of November face the death penalty if convicted


Nov 30, 2018

113 inmates escape from Indonesian prison during prayer time

Police say 113 inmates have escaped from a prison in western Indonesia after overpowering a guard during prayer time


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