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Topic: Indonesia

June 9, 2013
12:39 pm

Newly crowned Miss World Yu Wenxia of China after she won the Miss World 2012 beauty pageant at the Ordos Stadium Arena in inner Mongolia, China. (photo credit: AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Miss World 2013 nixes bikinis

Pageant set to take place in Indonesia in September bows to extremist pressure

By Niniek Karmini

May 30, 2013
10:38 am

An Indonesian Christian devotee carries a bamboo cross as he walks with others during a Good Friday procession to reenact Jesus path to crucifixion in Klaten, Central Java, Indonesia, March 29, 2013. (AP Photo/A.K. Hendratmo)

Indonesia religious award angers rights groups

Rabbi Arthur Schneier’s foundation set to honor the Indonesian president despite his country’s marked religious intolerance

By Peter James Spielmann

May 6, 2013
5:04 pm

Steven Tyler of the famed Aerosmith rock band, Sunday May 5, 2013, in Manila, Philippines, during a world tour. (photo credit: AP/Bullit Marquez)

Aerosmith drops Indonesia show over security fears

After bomb scare, veteran American rockers apologize to fans and say they hope to make it up to them

March 8, 2013
6:08 am

Participants of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's (JDC) Second International Women's Leadership Workshop in Israel this week (photo credit: Ofir Ben Natan, JDC Israel)

Can women ‘have it all’?

In Israel, 17 international development leaders explore what it means, in real life, to be a woman and a social leader

By Michal Shmulovich

February 18, 2013
12:13 pm

Rice farmers in the town of Tondano, Indonesia. (photo credit: CC BY sektordua, Flickr)

Indonesia’s only synagogue strives for acceptance

From the web Jakarta Globe: The Gate of Heaven in Tondano serves a community of 20 Jews in an overwhelming Muslim society

February 14, 2013
4:23 pm

German Ambassador to Israel Andreas Michaelis with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, August 17, 2011. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90

Germany to help Israelis stuck in unfriendly countries

Tourists having trouble in one of the 30 states with which Israel does not have diplomatic relations will no longer be on their own

By Raphael Ahren

November 23, 2012
3:55 pm

Muslim hard-liners protest Israel’s Gaza offensive at US Embassy in Indonesia

Demonstrators shout ‘Go to hell Israel!’ and call on Obama to stop his ‘blind support’ for the Jewish state

November 21, 2012
2:50 pm

At US Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesians protest Gaza offensive

Police use tear gas to push back hundreds of protesters

November 8, 2012
11:27 pm

Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in September 2012 (screenshot: YouTube/CNN)

Any country stockpiling nukes is ‘retarded,’ Ahmadinejad says

Iranian president says the age of nuclear deterrence is over

By Ilan Ben Zion

November 8, 2012
11:48 am

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad makes peace gestures on the sidelines of the Bali Democracy Forum in Indonesia last November (photo credit: AP/Dita Alangkara)

Ahmadinejad mocks billion-dollar US election budget

Iranian leader, attending democracy forum in Indonesia, claims politics in American and Europe is just ‘a battleground for the capitalists’

October 27, 2012
4:01 pm

Indonesia arrests 11 planning terror attack on US embassy

In country-wide sting, anti-terror squads bust suspects targeting American and Australian diplomats

September 22, 2012
1:21 pm

Indian Muslim women shout slogans against the US on Friday during a protest rally, one of many demonstrations around the world against perceived insults to the Prophet Muhammad. (photo credit: AP/Channi Anand)

Violent clashes erupt in Bangladesh over anti-Islam film

Several vehicles burned, including a police van, as portesters announce nationwide strike on Sunday

September 20, 2012
7:17 pm

Demonstrators against the anti-Islam film in Peshawar, Pakistan Sunday. At least one protester was killed in demonstrations in Pakistan Monday. (photo credit: Muhammad Sajjad/AP)

Iranian protesters burn Israeli, American flags over anti-Islam movie

Tear gas used to stop 1,000 demonstrators trying to reach US embassy in Pakistan

By Munir Ahmed

September 19, 2012
2:06 pm

Police officers watch as Muslim protesters hang banners and a US flag on the razor wire surrounding the US Embassy compound in Jakarta, Indonesia, September 19, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Tatan Syuflana)

Lawyers in Pakistan rally against anti-Islam film

Peaceful protesters in the Indonesian city of Medan call on the US to punish creators of ‘Innocence of Muslims,’ a day after riots outside US Embassy in Jakarta

September 17, 2012
12:29 pm

Afghan police stand by burning tires Monday in Kabul during violent protests against the anti-Islam film that ridicules the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. (photo credit: AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

Violent clashes erupt in 3 countries over anti-Islam film

At least one protester dead in Pakistan

By AP and Michal Shmulovich

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