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Moving To Indonesia And Into The Present Tense

Kate Willsky | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Jakarta, Indonesia, Jakarta-Indonesia, Coming-of-Age, Southeast Asia, Memory, Travel, Asia, Memories, Travel News
Kate Willsky

This afternoon, a monsoon opened up the sky and I went onto our sheltered patio and sat on the little couch out there and pulled out my box of Bahasa vocabulary cards

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Would You Answer This Call?

Nisha Varia | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Jakarta, Human Rights, Indonesia, Exploitation, Human Rights Watch, Labor Conditions, Extortion, Anis Hidayah, Domestic Work, Migrant-Care, Women News
Nisha Varia

Anis Hidayah was literally going into labor with her second child when she answered her phone, suspecting it would be a migrant worker needing her help. She was right.

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Hipsterdom Goes Global

www.csmonitor.com | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Jakarta Hipsters, Jakarta, Hipsters, Culture, Culture News

Hipster-oriented stores appear in Jakarta’s Western-style malls. At the youthful FX Sudirman mall, teenagers seek out skinny jeans, ironic T-shirts,...

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Greenpeace Director Denied Entry To Indonesia

AP | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Jakarta, Video, John Sauven Greenpeace, Indonesia, John Sauven Denied Entry, John Sauven Indonesia, John Sauven, Greenpeace, Greenpeace Indonesia, Green News

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesia says it has barred the executive director of the environmental group Greenpeace from entering the country because of r...

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Governor's Remarks On Taxi Rapist Fuel Jakartan 'Slut Walk'

Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Slut Walk, Women, Jakarta, Rape, Indonesia Women, Jakarta Rape, Jakarta Slut Walk, Indonesia Slut Walk, Indonesia Woman Rape, Jakarta Woman Rape, Jakarta Indonesia, World News

Crawling Jakarta traffic helped stymie a taxi driver's escape after he allegedly raped a 28-year-old woman, The Jakarta Globe reports. The Indonesi...

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WATCH: It Is Hard To Hate America When You're Laughing

Tom Rhodes | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Jakarta, Indonesia, Muslim-Comedy, 9/11, Travel Video, Decade After 9/11 - Lives Affected, Asia, September 11 Anniversary, Tom Rhodes, Travel Blogs, September 11th, Comedy, Travel News
Tom Rhodes

When I came on, my opening line was: "Well, I don't think I have ever seen a foreign audience so happy to see an American before."

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WATCH: It Is Hard To Hate America When You're Laughing

Tom Rhodes | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Jakarta, Indonesia, Muslim-Comedy, 9/11, Travel Video, Asia, September 11 Anniversary, Comedy, September 11th, Travel Blogs, Tom Rhodes, Travel News
Tom Rhodes

When I came on, my opening line was: "Well, I don't think I have ever seen a foreign audience so happy to see an American before."

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Citibank Accused Of Murdering A Credit Card Deadbeat

Washington Post | Andrew Higgins | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: India, Jakarta, Debt Collectors, Debt Crisis, Debtors, Interrogation, Citigroup Vice Chairman Lewis B. Kaden, Citibank, International Banking, Banks, Business News

The 50-year-old businessman, invited to a Citibank office in Jakarta in late March, collapsed in a tiny room set aside by the U.S. bank for question...

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Indonesia Hit By Magnitude 6.5 Earthquake

AP | Posted 08.26.2011

Read More: Indonesia Earthquake, Seismic Activity, Natural Disasters, Jakarta, Papua Province Earthquake, Indonesia, World News

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A strong earthquake rocked parts of Indonesia's Papua province on Sunday, causing panic among residents but no immediate re...

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HSBC Considers Running Down Its Credit Card Business

Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Cost Cutting, Jakarta, Banking, U.S. Card Business, CEO Stuart Gulliver, Credit Cards, Retail Banking, Business Model, HSBC Holdings, World Economic Forum, Video, Business News

JAKARTA - HSBC Holdings will run down its $33 billion U.S. credit card business if it cannot find a buyer, the bank's chief executive said on Mond...

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Long After Tsunami, Rotary's Youth Centre Continues in Aceh, Indonesia

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: William B. Boyd, Australia, Aceh, Rotary International, Bill Boyd, Sri Lanka, Manado, Banda Aceh, Haiti, Rotary Youth Centre Aceh, Jakarta, Oiww, Tsunami, Dedek Arahman, Indonesia, Sumatra, James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Jim Luce, Orphanage, Arkansas, Bush and Clinton Foundation, John Hewko, International Development, Orphans International Worldwide, Fulbright Tsunami Relief Program, Bali, Fulbright Scholars, Turramurra, World News
Jim Luce

I arrived in Aceh a few weeks after the catastrophic Tsunami of December 2004. As founder of Orphans International Worldwide (OIWW), I wanted to use ...

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Radical Muslim Vigilante Group Patrols Indonesia

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jakarta, Islam, Prostitution, Indonesia, Asia Gay Film Festival, Muslims, Prostitutes @Y:World, Evangelical Christians, Playboy Magazine, Pornographer, Gambing, Video, World News

Over the past six months, the Islamic Defenders Front has successfully rallied to imprison the editor of Indonesia's very tame version of Playboy Maga...

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Obama Is Hitting a Sophomore Slump in the Muslim World

Melody Moezzi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Islam, Jakarta, Indonesia, Afghanistan, President Obama, Guantanamo, United States, Barack Obama Jakarta, Iraq, Muslim, Israel, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, World News
Melody Moezzi

In President Obama's debut in the Muslim world seventeen months ago, he came off as an undeniable rock star. but fast forward to today, and it appears our rock star has hit a bit of a sophomore slump.

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PHOTOS: A Walk Through Bustling Jakarta

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Jakarta, Indonesia, Jakarta-Indonesia, Obama Indonesia Trip, Travel News

When President Obama landed in Indonesia's capital Jakarta on Tuesday, it was more than just a state visit; he was returning to a former childhood hom...

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PHOTOS: Obama's Visit PROTESTED In Childhood Home Of Indonesia

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jakarta, Islam, Obama Protests, Michelle Obama, Indonesia, President Obama, Muslims, Obama Muslim, Obama Asia Tour, Slidepollajax, Obama Protests Indonesia, Hizbut Tahrir, Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, World News

Although President Obama's visit to Indonesia is a homecoming of sorts, he was not universally welcomed in the nation where he spent several of his fo...

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Obama In Indonesia To Solidify Economic, Diplomatic Relations

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jakarta, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Muslim, Michelle Obama, Mount Merapi, Indonesia, Asean, Barack Obama Jakarta, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Indonesia, Muslim Groups, Obama in Indonesia 2010, World News

President Obama finally begins his twice-postponed Indonesian visit on Tuesday, and though his stay can be seen a homecoming of sorts, he is expected ...

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Women Meet in Jakarta to Harness Their Economic Power

Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jakarta, Women, Cedpa, Thailand, Microfinance, Sumatra, Indonesia, Egypt, Exxonmobil, Southeast Asia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Global Women in Management, China, Java, Impact News
Tamar Abrams

In a meeting room surrounded by lush tropical landscaping, 20 women from Southeast Asia are meeting in Jakarta to develop their leadership, management and advocacy skills.

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Indonesia Mulls Plans To Relocate Capital City

AP | ALI KOTARUMALOS | Posted 05.25.2011

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JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia's president has a solution for the country's overcrowded, gridlocked and flood-prone capital: Move it. "If we're...

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Indonesia Gay Film Festival Attacked By Islamic Protesters

guardian.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jakarta, Islam, Islamic Protests, Indonesia, Muslims, Indonesian Gay Film Festival, Gay Rights, Gay Film Festival, Q! Film Festival, Gay Cinema, Gay Movies, Homosexuality, World News

An international film festival celebrating gay cinema was yesterday targeted by masked Islamic hardliners in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta....

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The Killing Fields and Indonesia's Relations with Cambodia Revisited

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yasushi Akashi, Siemreap, Thailand, Jakarta, Ethiopia, United Nations, University of Texas, Suharto, Chinese, Norodom Sihanouk, Cold War, Queen Monineath, Benny Widyono, Killing Fields, Indonesia, U.N., Southeast Asia, Commandeur De L?ÓRdre Royal De Sahametrey, Roman Catholic, People?S Republic of Kampuchea, Angkor Wat, Phnom Phen, Hun Sen, Sihanouk, Dancing in Shadows, CNN HERO, Indonesian Consulate, Khmer Rouge, Kofi Annan, U.N. Peacekeeping, New York City, Thought Leader, Phymean Noun, Untac, U.N. Transitional Authority on Cambodia, Indonesian Chinese, Pol Pot, Siemreap Province, Connecticut, Sichan Siv, University of Indonesia, Cambodia, Global Citizen, Japan, Peoples Improvement Organization, Hong Lan Oei, Boutros Boutros Ghali, King Sihanouk, World News
Jim Luce

I first met Benny Widyono at an Indonesian Consulate fete years ago. I knew upon meeting him that he had an extraordinary mind and knew Asia's south...

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Florida Quran Burning Sparks Protests In Indonesia

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islamophobia, September 11, Islam, Jakarta, Indonesia, 9/11, Protests, The Dove World Outreach Center, Christianity, Quran, Florida, Koran Burning, Gainesville, World News

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Thousands of Indonesian Muslims rallied outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta on Saturday to denounce an American church's pl...

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Indonesia's Parliament Airs Porn Video

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jakarta, Islam, Indonesian Parliament, Muslim, Porn, Indonesia, Indonesia Porn Broadcast@Y:World, Pornographic Site, Internet Porn, World News

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian lawmakers and journalists got a shock when an online porn video blazed across dozens of computer monitors outsid...

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Indonesia Earthquake: 7.4 Quake Rattles North Sumatra Province

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: North Sumatra, Jakarta, Tsunami, Sumatra, Quake, Indonesia, Earthquake, Hawaii, World News

JAKARTA, Indonesia — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 rattled Indonesia's North Sumatra province Sunday, prompting a brief loca...

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Fans Get Kelly Clarkson to Do the Right Thing

Matthew L. Myers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jakarta, Alicia Keys, Philip Morris, Indonesia, Kelly Clarkson, Tobacco, American Idol, Big Tobacco, Idol, Tobacco-Free Kids, Entertainment News
Matthew L. Myers

All members of the music and entertainment industry, including performers and promoters, should follow Clarkson's lead in rejecting all tobacco sponsorships and promotions.

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Jakarta Tomb Protests Turn Violent (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jakarta Riots, Indonesia Riots, Jakarta, Slideshow, Jakarta Protests, Indonesia, Jakarta-Indonesia, Tanjung Priok, Islamic Defenders Front, World News

(AP) JAKARTA, Indonesia - Protesters wielding machetes, sticks and petrol bombs clashed with riot police in a series of running battles Wednesday over...

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