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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

(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 ...

Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia live better on the whole than the vast archipelago's other races, a schism that underpinned riots in 1988. About 1,000 people died then and a lot of ethnic Chinese now use ...

Across a wall at the Masjid Istiqlal in central Jakarta there is a banner that reads: “Independence is the inalienable right of all nations therefore all colonialism must be abolished.” Colonized by ...

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 (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities are working with their counterparts in China to stem a flow of ethnic Uighur militants seeking to join Islamist jihadists in the world's most populous Muslim ...