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Geography of Indonesia

Flood refugees begin returning to Jakarta; Indonesia braces for more rain

Development & Education

Jakarta is often beset with flooding, but heavy rains and commercial developments made the past week’s flooding especially widespread, and also especially egalitarian — inundating the homes of both the poor and the wealthy.

VIDEO: Hopes fading for finding survivors of boat crash off Indonesia

Locals in Indonesia making a living as rented carpool riders

The World

Indonesian Women to Get Husbands’ Salaries

Conflict & Justice

Banda Aceh Authorities Arrest Punk Rock Concertgoers for ‘Moral Rehabilitation’

Lifestyle & Belief
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Stopping Indonesia’s Roof Riders with Threatening Concrete Balls

Global Politics

Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try to stop commuters from riding the roofs of trains Now they have an intimidating and possibly even deadly new tactic.

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Poor Indonesians Make Money in Jakarta’s Traffic as Jockeys

Business, Economics and Jobs

While many Indonesian drivers see Jakarta’s growing gridlock as a nightmare, some city residents see a business opportunity.

Jakarta Water Woes

The capital city of Indonesia is wading through more than just water as they cope with an array of problems brought on by recent flooding.

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Barack Obama: the movie

Arts, Culture & Media

The film, ‘Obama, the Menteng Kid,’ is the creation of Indonesian writer Damien Dematra who wrote a fictional novel on Obama’s upbringing in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Jakarta. BBC correspondent Karishma Vaswani joins us.

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Coffee and music in Indonesia

Global Politics

How do young people in the Indonesian province of Aceh have fun and obey strict Islamic or sharia law? As Julia Simon reports, they go listen to music in the region’s many coffee shops.

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