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INTERNATIONAL

Getting to know Indonesia
- Stephen Minas
- 10 November 2010
10 Comments
How many foreign heads of state could be depicted in a cartoon in an Australian newspaper, as Indonesian President Yudhoyono was, in an act of sodomy? Despite widespread negative perceptions, Australia's neighbour is achieving many positive changes, quickly.
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INTERNATIONAL

Not the Pacific Solution
- Andrew Hamilton
- 07 July 2010
27 Comments
Julia Gillard insists that the centre in East Timor centre would be properly 'run, auspiced and structured'. For the Australian Government to ensure that such a centre respects the human dignity of asylum seekers will be difficult. Similar arrangements with Indonesia were not satisfactory.
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AUSTRALIA

Palestine's heavy metal revolution
- James M. Dorsey
- 19 April 2010
5 Comments
Boosted by technologies that facilitate mass distribution without government control, the heavy metal and hip-hop music scene in the Middle East recalls the role music played in the velvet revolution that toppled regimes in Eastern Europe and Indonesia.
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RELIGION

Why Ali fled Afghanistan
- Frank Brennan
- 07 April 2010
21 Comments
On Monday night on ABC1's Q&A, Tony Abbott was asked about the recent wave of boat people including Hazaras fleeing the Taliban in Afghanistan. At the end of one recent meeting in Indonesia, a 15-year-old Hazara named Ali came and told me his heart wrenching story.
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RELIGION

Australians aspire to lift their climate game
- Frank Brennan
- 25 January 2010
10 Comments
For a while we were leading the world on climate change. But once Copenhagen collapsed Rudd assured us 'Australia will do no more and no less than the rest of the world'. The lowest common denominator is not usually the solution to the great moral challenges.
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AUSTRALIA

'Indonesia solution' is immoral
- Andrew Hamilton
- 02 November 2009
10 Comments
The reception of asylum seekers is to be judged by the human reality of those who seek asylum, not by convenience of those on whom they make a claim. It is morally unjustifiable for Australia to transfer its responsibilities to Indonesia.
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AUSTRALIA

Witnessing East Timor's independence
- Meredyth Tamsyn
- 28 August 2009
1 Comment
Ten years ago, the East Timorese voted overwhelmingly via UN referendum for independence from Indonesia. The euphoria would not last. By nightfall there were over a hundred refugees seeking shelter in the backyard of the UN house where we were staying.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Discerning truth in Balibo's fiction
- Tim Kroenert
- 20 August 2009
5 Comments
'Cinema,' says director Robert Connolly, 'can take the audience and show them a tragedy in a way that creates empathy. I was interested in exploring the ability of this country to compel people to tell its story. It's hard not to start caring for what happened there.'
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AUSTRALIA

How Balibo distorts history
- Paul Cleary
- 20 August 2009
10 Comments
The first feature length film about Indonesia's invasion of East Timor and the deaths of six Australian journalists fails to inform the audience of the diplomatic dirty tricks, and Australian and American complicity.
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RELIGION

Myopic media's Indonesia 'jihad'
- Herman Roborgh
- 20 July 2009
14 Comments
Many in the media have labelled the bombings in Jakarta as the work of jihad. When we understand the Qur'anic verses that advocate jihad in their proper historical context, it is clear that the Qur'an expresses acceptance and respect for non-Muslims.
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AUSTRALIA

Indonesia veering towards extremism
- Peter Kirkwood
- 07 April 2009
9 Comments
This week's Indonesian presidential election ought to concern Australians more than it does. If Muslim radicals gain significant influence, we will have a huge hostile neighbour just to our north.
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AUSTRALIA

Indonesia's Obama dreaming
- Dewi Anggraeni
- 22 January 2009
3 Comments
In the big cities in Indonesia, most taxi drivers want to talk about the new president in the USA. Obama lived four years in Indonesia, and the country, the people and the culture left their marks on him, too.
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