Sample counts show defence minister winning about 58 percent of the vote in first round of presidential election. Indonesian Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto has declared victory in the presidential election after unofficial vote counts showed him with a significant lead over his rivals. “We have to respect the people’s decision,” Anies told reporters at his campaign headquarters after Prabowo claimed …
The ethnic minority can now openly express their cultural identity but remain vulnerable to prejudice. “It’s important to emphasise that discriminatory practices and exclusionary narratives about ethnic Chinese didn’t start from the Soeharto period,” the author of the forthcoming book Memories of Unbelonging: Ethnic Chinese Identity in Post-Suharto Indonesia, told Al Jazeera. Even before Indonesia’s independence in 1945, Dutch colonial …
An economic crisis as well as mass protests brought down Indonesia’s longtime leader and brought new freedoms. This week marks 25 years since Indonesia’s former leader General Muhammad Soeharto stepped down amid mass protests and an economic crisis. July, 2002 Soeharto’s son Hutomo “Tommy” Mandala Putra is sentenced to 15 years jail for masterminding the murder of a judge who …
Sunday marks the start of the Year of the Rabbit and more than a billion people from mainland China to South Korea and Malaysia will celebrate. Hundreds of millions of people from around the world are about to celebrate the Lunar New Year and the arrival of the Year of the Rabbit. The Lunar New Year, as its name suggests, …