For the most part, civet coffee is not harvested in the wild in limited quantities but mass produced by animals kept in appalling conditions — it’s high time we stopped drinking it
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The Ones That Didn’t Make It: Australia-Bound Refugees Languish in Indonesia
Australia’s new policy of turning back the boats has left asylum seekers in a desperate, deadening limbo
Australia’s Asylum Seeker Policy is ‘Offensive and Illegal’: Indonesian MP
Australia must respect Indonesia’s sovereignty, says a prominent member of Jakarta’s parliament
‘Virginity Tests’ Throw Spotlight on Indonesia’s Conflicted Sexual Morality
A small-town education chief in Indonesia made headlines last week after he reportedly planned to impose mandatory virginity tests on female students entering high school. He cited concerns over premarital sex and teen …
Q&A: Indonesia’s Terrorism Expert on the Country’s Homegrown Jihadis
Indonesia has endured terrorist attacks targeting churches, embassies, nightclubs and luxury hotels for over a decade. While much focus has been on the link between Indonesian terrorist groups and al-Qaeda, terrorism expert and …
Shocking Arrest Underscores Endemic Corruption in Indonesia’s Energy Sector
Rudi Rubiandini was considered a clean man in a corrupt industry, until authorities arrested him and accused him of taking $700,000 in bribes
Jakarta Bomb a Warning That Burma’s Muslim-Buddhist Conflict May Spread
The fear now is that the plight of Burma’s Muslim minority has become a battle cry for Islamist militants in Indonesia
The Southeast Asian Haze Is Back and Worse May Follow
Acts of Killing: How Asia Still Struggles With Histories of Genocide
On Monday, a controversial special tribunal in Bangladesh deemed a 90-year-old man a war criminal. Ghulam Azam, the spiritual head of Bangladesh’s far-right Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party, was found guilty of “crimes against …
15 Years After the Fall of Suharto, a Mixed Picture of Indonesia’s Minorities
Indonesians are rightly proud of their country’s democratic transformation. But the relative openness that Indonesians have enjoyed since 1998 has given rise not only to civic freedom but also hard-line religious groups that …
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China’s polluted waters is drawing attention from environmentalists and investors, the U.N. will not compensate Haiti cholera victims and Japanese Prime Minister visits the U.S.
Must-Reads from Around the World
Anti-whaling activists clash with a Japanese whaling ship in the Antarctic Ocean, India’s government hopes to pass a long-delayed food security bill and newly declassified documents show that Britain considered allowing …
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Singaporeans protest over the government’s plans to increase its population by accepting more immigrants, mothers in Indonesia are being persuaded by milk formula companies to give up breastfeeding their babies and British …