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 ...

JAKARTA — An old woman who owns a traditional Chinese medical massage shop in Kelapa Gading, a north Jakarta neighborhood where Chinese-Indonesians are concentrated, points to a billboard that is in ...

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 ...

Amb Witjaksono Adji says Indonesia deliberately chose a minority language as its national language to avoid potential ...

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) – 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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...