JAKARTA, Indonesia — When mob violence swept across the Indonesian capital in May 1998, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese geologist and businessman, joined terrified neighbors in the heavily ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Mounting street protests against the governor here are reviving painful memories for many of Indonesia’s ethnic Chinese minority, a group that has long faced discrimination and ...

For more than a decade, Indonesia has had a reputation for being afflicted by serious ethnic and other forms of communal conflict. In the early years of the transition to democracy after President ...

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Ahok may be the first Chinese Indonesian politician to break the shackles of identity politics in Indonesia. Steven Fitzgerald Sipahutar/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, better known as ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s presidential race isn’t until July. But there’s already one winner. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, better known by his nickname “Ahok”, has taken over as acting governor of ...

Medan, Indonesia – Meliana, a woman from Indonesia‘s ethnic Chinese minority sentenced last year to 18 months in prison for blasphemy, has been released on parole. The 44-year-old, a Buddhist, ...

Reports that ethnic Chinese women were raped during riots in Jakarta in mid-May have generated an outpouring of rage from around the world and a furious debate inside Indonesia. Legislators in Taiwan ...