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A Queensland researcher who has travelled the world to milk venom from lizards now hopes to replicate its blood-thinning powers.
Topics: medical-research, health, animal-science, science-and-technology, indonesia, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedIndonesia's counter-terrorism agency says the nation's young radicals are continuing to be drawn to the southern Philippines, with fighting in Marawi now in its third month.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, indonesia, philippines
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| UpdatedResidents throughout the villages of Boyolali in Indonesia are under attack by an unlikely but at times vicious culprit: macaque monkeys. So dressed in army get up, locals have taken it upon themselves to hunt the animals down.
Topics: animals, animal-attacks, indonesia, asia
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North Queensland farmers welcome a new shipping line's announcement to upgrade the frequency of its services from the Port of Townsville, bypassing Brisbane.
Topics: sea-transport, agricultural-crops, mining-rural, livestock, townsville-4810, brisbane-4000, malaysia, hong-kong, singapore, indonesia
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A senior Indonesian counter-terrorism officer says he is concerned Australian officials do not appear to know the exact location of convicted Australian terrorist Jack Roche.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, indonesia, australia
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| UpdatedA small but alarming number of Indonesian maids working in Asia are becoming radicalised and supporting the Islamic State group. Some have volunteered as suicide bombers.
Topics: terrorism, islam, religion-and-beliefs, unrest-conflict-and-war, hong-kong, syrian-arab-republic, asia, indonesia
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo today launched a measles immunisation campaign aimed at ridding the country of the disease by 2020.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, indonesia
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Si Yi Chen was 20 when he was caught trafficking drugs as part of the Bali Nine. Now he's serving a life sentence in Kerobokan prison in Bali, unsure if he will ever step outside the prison walls.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, human-interest, bali, indonesia, australia
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| UpdatedMore than 40 Indonesian mosques are implicated in supporting the Islamic State group by spreading its ideology and recruiting fighters to go to Syria, Government-funded researchers say.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, islam, religion-and-beliefs, indonesia
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| UpdatedAttorney-General George Brandis warns the sustained fighting in the southern Philippines city of Marawi is an immediate and urgent threat to Indonesia and to the region more generally, including Australia.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, government-and-politics, world-politics, indonesia
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Australian ministers and their counterparts of neighbouring countries gather to discuss a regional approach to combating terrorism on an island in Indonesia being used by arms traffickers experts say are supplying weapons to extremists.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, foreign-affairs, world-politics, terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, indonesia, australia, philippines, malaysia, new-zealand, brunei-darussalam
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| UpdatedIndonesia's execution of a Nigerian man last year has been condemned by the nation's ombudsman, who says the man still had a clemency appeal underway.
Topics: judges-and-legal-profession, prisons-and-punishment, death, indonesia, asia, pacific
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Two women accused of murdering the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un by by smearing his face with the banned VX nerve agent at a crowded airport in Malaysia will face trial in October.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, security-intelligence, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, indonesia, vietnam
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| UpdatedA woman's life in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Indonesia is captured in a documentary film, by her grandson.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-war-2, history, community-and-society, indonesia, ballarat-3350, melbourne-3000
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Novel Baswedan paid a high price for pursuing Indonesia's corrupt — returning home from dawn prayers one morning in April he was attacked with acid, causing severe damage to both his eyes.
Topics: corruption, world-politics, indonesia
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The sustained extrajudicial killings of suspected drug offenders in the Philippines has led to an increase in trafficking into Indonesia, Indonesia's anti-narcotics chief says, but comparisons have recently been drawn between the two countries' approaches.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, crime, crime-prevention, police, indonesia, philippines
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In the satellite city of Depok, 40 kilometres south of Jakarta, 47-year old mother of four Heni Rahayu explains to the ABC why she wants to live near Muslims and Muslims alone.
Topics: islam, government-and-politics, world-politics, indonesia, asia
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| UpdatedBali Nine prisoner Matthew Norman speaks to the ABC's Samantha Hawley about life within the walls of the infamous Kerobokan prison and his hopes for a second chance.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, drug-offences, crime, community-and-society, mental-health, indonesia, bali
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| UpdatedIndonesia's President Joko Widodo tells law enforcement officers to shoot drug traffickers who resist arrest, saying the country faces a "narcotics emergency".
Topics: drug-offences, law-crime-and-justice, world-politics, indonesia
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The battle for the city of Marawi in southern Philippines will have long-term repercussions across the region, according to a new report which says "the risks won't end when the military declares victory".
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, philippines, indonesia, asia
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Indonesia's Government has banned hardline Islamist group Hizbut Tahrir as part of a new decree signed by President Joko Widodo.
Topics: islam, law-crime-and-justice, indonesia, asia
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| UpdatedUltra-conservative Islamist group Hizbut Tahrir has its legal status in Indonesia revoked, less than a week after the Government moved to ban groups that do not support the nation's ideologies.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, religion-and-beliefs, islam, indonesia, asia
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Balinese government agencies call for an end to the dog-meat trade in Bali, according to Animals Australia, which sponsored a summit last week to discuss the killing of dogs for human consumption in the popular tourist destination.
Topics: animals, human-interest, animal-welfare, law-crime-and-justice, bali, indonesia
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A prominent Indigenous artist from Queensland alleges he was racially profiled and "interrogated" by Australian Border Force staff on his return to Australia from a diplomatic trip to Indonesia.
Topics: contemporary-art, indigenous-culture, federal-government, brisbane-4000, maroochydore-4558, indonesia
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| UpdatedAustralia's ambassador to Indonesia emphasises the Federal Government's commitment to try and help boost tourism in Indonesia.
Topics: travel-and-tourism, world-politics, indonesia, asia