Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, Jakarta's then vice governor, talks to residents affected by floods during his visit to Jakarta January 19, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer By Kanupriya Kapoor and Anastasia Arvirianty ...

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Researcher, Department of Politics and International Relations, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, better known as Ahok, will be the first ethnic Chinese ...

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 ...

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The moment Jenny Ramli heard the screams, she tossed a few random items into a duffel bag, grabbed her passport and headed in the family sedan to the international airport. Her neighbors in the ...

(Jakarta) – Political changes in post-Suharto Indonesia have triggered ethnic and religious violence across the country, says a book by Andreas Harsono, a veteran Indonesia researcher for Human Rights ...

Singkawang in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province – which has a sizeable Chinese population – was the most tolerant place in the nation in 2021, a Jakarta-based research and advocacy non-governmental ...

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 ...

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