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On Monday morning, in a pre-dawn raid, Indonesian counterterrorism authorities arrested a 31-year-old man, identified only by the initials A.M.…
This article originally appeared on VICE Indonesia. By the time Fachruzio Alfarisi graduated high school last year, he’d seen a…
This article originally appeared on VICE Australia.The Indonesian government has announced it will close the island of Komodo to tourists…
This article originally appeared on VICE Asia.It’s hard to imagine anything more central to life in Toraja than the buffalo.…
Mariana Hoar remembers the fear of living under Japanese occupation—and the pain. “When the Japanese came, we already tattooed ourselves…
This article originally appeared on VICE Indonesia.Nadia Rompas’s book of portraits Anak Perempuan is all about mothers and daughters. But,…
In Indonesia, circumcision is considered the official beginning of a boy’s transition into manhood—a defining moment in his life, and…
Jakarta Blasts: ISIS Inc Strikes Again Was Jakarta Getting Too Cozy with China? January 15, 2016 (Tony Cartalucci – LD) – Here is what we are expected to believe regarding coordinated bombings and mass shootings that took place on Thursday in the capital of Southeast Asia’s nation of Indonesia – an economically and geopolitically crucial state. We are to believe that the "Islamic State in Iraq and Syria" (ISIS) – named so because it allegedly exists and primarily operates in Iraq and Syria - is fighting the Syrian government, nonexistent moderates the US claims it is arming and funding to the tune of several billions of dollars a year since 2011, the Iraqi government, the Kurds, Russia, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and Iran
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 Supranational ASEAN is Super Folly for Southeast Asia US reveals ASEAN as neo-imperial consolidation as Clinton calls on bloc to present a "united front" against China. by Tony Cartalucci September 4, 2012 – In the literary classic "Gulliver’s Travels," the protagonist, Lemuel Gulliver, finds himself shipwrecked on an island of tiny people called, " Lilliputians ." While he slept, the Lilliputians used their tiny rope and stakes to tie Gulliver down. When he awoke, though many times larger than any one of the Lilliputians, he was immobilized and at their mercy