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Lion dancers perform on an Israeli flag during a rally in solidarity of the Palestinians in Gaza, in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 12, 2025. (AP/Tatan Syuflana)
October 30, 2025, 10:33 am
Despite dashing hopes for a visit, Indonesia cautiously eyes ties with Israel
For the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, the path to Jerusalem runs through Gaza – and Trump
By Nava Freiberg
Israel's Artem Dolgopyat competes in the artistic gymnastics men's floor exercise final during the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, on August 3, 2024. (Loic VENANCE / AFP)
October 14, 2025, 3:28 pm
Israeli gymnasts remain excluded from world championship after court rejects request
Top sports court turns down Israeli appeal to ‘guarantee its participation’ in Indonesia on Oct. 19; world federation says it has no jurisdiction to force Jakarta to issue visas
By AFP and ToI Staff
Presidential-elect and Indonesia's Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto (C) dances on the stage after polls closed in the country's presidential and legislative elections in Jakarta on February 14, 2024. (Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)
February 14, 2024, 11:15 pm
Indonesia defense chief accused of rights abuses claims victory in presidential vote
Prabowo Subianto committed alleged crimes under Suharto regime over two decades ago; vows to build embassy in West Bank or Gaza; rival championed boycott of Israeli soccer team
By Niniek Karmini and Edna Tarigan
Family members of the crashed Indonesian Lion Air JT-610 react at Pangkal Pinang airport, in Bangka Belitung province on October 29, 2018. (HADI SUTRISNO / AFP)
October 29, 2018, 8:17 am
Indonesian Lion Air plane crashes into sea with 189 on board
Divers searching for wreckage of the jet that vanished from radar minutes after takeoff from Jakarta
By Stephan Wright and Niniek Karmini
An Indonesian anti-terror police officer (L) escorts Aman Abdurrahman (C), who masterminded a 2016 gun and suicide attack in the capital Jakarta that left four attackers and four civilians dead, into a South Jakarta court as he arrives for sentencing on June 22, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / BAY ISMOYO)
June 22, 2018, 8:16 am
Indonesian cleric sentenced to death over 2016 terror attack
Aman Abdurrahman convicted for suicide bombing in Starbucks cafe attributed to Islamic State
By AFP
Protesters wave Palestinian flags during a rally against the US plan to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, at Monas, the national monument, in Jakarta, Indonesia, May 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
May 11, 2018, 5:21 pm
Indonesians protest US recognition of Jerusalem as capital
Thousands wave Palestinian flags in Jakarta ahead of embassy move from Tel Aviv, as President Widodo calls for UN debate
By AP
Jakarta local government personnel conduct a mass wedding to welcome and celebrate the New Year 2018 in Jakarta on December 31, 2017. (AFP Photo/Bay Ismoyo)
January 1, 2018, 2:36 am
Indonesians celebrate New Year with mass wedding
At festive communal event staged by local authorities to ease residents’ struggles with bureaucracy, 437 couples tie the knot
By AFP
Indonesians take part in a protest against US President Donald Trump's recent decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, outside the US embassy in Jakarta, on December 17, 2017. (AFP Photo/Adek Berry)
December 17, 2017, 8:26 am
Indonesia clerics urge US boycott as 80,000 protest Jerusalem recognition
Tens of thousands throng capital of world’s largest Muslim country in 10th straight day of protests over Trump’s decision
By AP and ToI Staff
This photograph taken on November 10, 2017 shows an Indonesian family preparing to take a photograph with a life-size wax sculpture of Adolf Hitler at a museum in Yogyakarta (AFP / HENRYANTO)
November 11, 2017, 7:58 am
Indonesian museum removes Nazi-themed exhibit after outrage
Display featured a life size wax sculpture of Hitler standing in front of a huge photo of the gates of Auschwitz
By AFP
Indonesian President Joko Widodo (L), accompanied by his wife Iriana Widoro (2nd L), introduces his son Kaesang Pangarep to former US president Barack Obama (C) upon Obama's arrival for their meeting at the Bogor Presidential Palace in Bogor on June 30, 2017.(AFP PHOTO / POOL / DITA ALANGKARA)
July 2, 2017, 3:35 am
Obama preaches tolerance in world’s biggest Muslim majority nation
In nostalgic trip to Indonesia, ex-US president reminisces about Jakarta childhood, where he learned to ‘cherish respect for people’s differences’
By Margie Mason
Jakarta's Christian governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (C), popularly known as Ahok, speaks to his lawyers after judges delivered their sentence during the verdict in his blasphemy trial in Jakarta on May 9, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / BAY ISMOYO)
May 9, 2017, 10:00 am
Jakarta’s Christian governor jailed for 2 years for blasphemy
Harsh sentence raises concerns of rising religious intolerance in Indonesia, world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation
By Olivia Rondonuwu and Kiki Siregar
An image of the Marvel Comics superheroes by Marcello Silk Screen artist. (Flikr/Public Domain)
April 10, 2017, 1:14 am
‘Marvel’ retracts hidden anti-Jewish messages in comic
Indonesian illustrator of ‘X-Men Gold #1’ included references to Koranic verses warning against friendship with non-Muslims
By ToI Staff
The flight trajectory of El Al Flight ELY33 from Singapore to Sydney, carrying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on February 22, 2017, showing a detour of some 2.5 hours to avoid Indonesian airspace. (Screenshot: FlightAware)
February 23, 2017, 10:17 pm
Netanyahu took 2-hour detour to avoid Indonesia en route to Australia
PM arrived in Sydney after 11 hours in the air from Singapore, a journey that usually lasts 8.5 hours
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a visiting delegation of Indonesian journalists at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 28, 2016. (Haim Tzach, GPO)
April 1, 2016, 11:18 am
Indonesia rebuffs Netanyahu call for normalized ties
Jakarta says its ‘support and efforts to push for the independence of Palestine will not change’
By ToI Staff
Armed Indonesian police commandos arrive in the area outside a damaged Starbucks coffee shop after a series of explosions hit central Jakarta, January 14, 2016. (AFP Photo/Romeo Gacad)
March 14, 2016, 6:55 am
Indonesia arrests 14 — including kids — allegedly heading to Syria
Family of five among group detained at Jakarta’s international airport; hundreds of Indonesians have joined Islamic State
By AFP
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