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Eleven dead, one missing after boat sinks in west Indonesia
In this photo released by Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) on Friday, April 28, 2023, a rescuer scans the horizon during the search for victims of a sinking speedboat in Indragiri Hilir Regency, Indonesia. A speedboat carrying dozens of people sank in western Indonesia, and rescuers were searching for several people still missing in the rough seas early Friday. (BASARNAS via AP)
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Magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits Indonesia, triggers tsunami warning
The Indonesian flag flutters in front a partial solar eclipse in Surabaya on April 20, 2023. (Photo by Juni Kriswanto / AFP) (Photo by JUNI KRISWANTO/AFP via Getty Images)
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Solar eclipse wows viewers in Australia, Indonesia
A hybrid solar eclipse is seen from Lautem, East Timor, Thursday, April 20, 2023. The lucky few people in its path either saw the darkness of a total eclipse or a “ring of fire” as the sun peeked from behind the new moon. (AP Photo/Lorenio L.Pereira)
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Will we have enough nickel for our EVs in 2030?
A dump truck loads raw nickel ore at a nickel mining site of Vale in Sorowako, South Sulawesi province, Indonesia, March 29, 2023. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana
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Indonesia stripped of hosting men’s under-20 World Cup by FIFA
FILE PHOTO: FIFA's logo is seen in front of its headquarters during a foggy autumn day in Zurich, Switzerland November 18, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo
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Paper Excellence’s ties to controversial Indonesian forestry giant could hinder Canadian expansion
Cedar planks are stacked at a lumber yard in Montreal, Tuesday, April 25, 2017. The Competition Bureau has approved the acquisition of Resolute Forest Products Inc. by Domtar Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Paper Excellence Group. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
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Dow said it would recycle these donated shoes. Instead, they were found for sale in Indonesia
A worker sorts second-hand shoes at a warehouse owned by Yok Impex, a Singaporean textile and shoe trader, where 10 of the original 11 pairs of shoes were traced to before leaving Singapore's borders for Indonesia, in Singapore, January 6, 2023. To Match Special Report GLOBAL-PLASTIC/DOW-SHOES REUTERS/Joseph Campbell
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Earthquake hits Indonesia, killing four as restaurant collapses
This photo released by Indonesia's National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) shows a damaged house following an earthquake in Jayapura, Papua province, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. The shallow earthquake shook the country's easternmost province of Papua on Thursday, killing a number of people. (BNPB via AP)
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Is Indonesia morphing into an Islamic autocracy?
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Indonesia sends warship to monitor Chinese coast guard vessel
Indonesia Navy Frogman Forces Command personnel take part in a security drill ahead of G20 summit at Benoa harbour in Denpasar, on Indonesia resort island of Bali on November 9, 2022. (Photo by SONNY TUMBELAKA / AFP) (Photo by SONNY TUMBELAKA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Group of 184 Rohingya refugees reach Indonesia
A man stands near a boat used by Rohingya refugees to arrive in Lamnga beach, Aceh province on January 8, 2023. - A wooden boat carrying nearly 200 Rohingya refugees, a majority of them women and children, landed on Indonesia's western coast on January 8, police said. (Photo by Chaideer MAHYUDDIN / AFP) (Photo by CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN/AFP via Getty Images)
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UN refugee agency urges countries to help Rohingya stranded at sea as hundreds land in Indonesia
A health worker assists Rohingya refugees at a temporary shelter following their arrival by a boat in Laweung, Aceh province on December 27, 2022. - Rohingya refugees received emergency medical treatment after a boat carrying nearly 200 people came ashore in Indonesia on December 26, authorities said, in the fourth such landing in the country in recent months. (Photo by CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP) (Photo by CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN/AFP via Getty Images)
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More Rohingya refugees reach Indonesia after weeks at sea
Rohingya refugees receive medical treatment after they arrived at the Meunasah Ujong Pie village, in Pidie, Aceh province, Indonesia, December 26, 2022. REUTERS/Hidayatullah Tahjuddin NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.
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Rohingya Muslim refugees land on Indonesia beach after weeks at sea
Indonesian military personnel inspect a wooden boat used to carry Rohingya refugees after it landed on Indra Patra beach in Ladong village, Aceh province, Indonesia, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. Dozens of hungry and weak Rohingya Muslims were found on a beach in Indonesia's northernmost province of Aceh on Sunday after weeks at sea, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Mirza)
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Bali governor says new Indonesia laws pose no risk to tourists
Activists protest in front of the parliament building in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. Indonesia's Parliament passed a long-awaited and controversial revision of its penal code Tuesday that criminalizes extramarital sex for citizens and visiting foreigners alike. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
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Suicide bomber hits Indonesian police station, killing one
Police officers secure a road leading to a police station where a bomb exploded in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. A man blew himself up Wednesday at a police station on Indonesia's main island of Java in what appeared to be the latest in a string of suicide attacks in the world's most populous Muslim nation. (AP Photo/Kholid Parmawinata)
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Indonesia parliament ratifies criminal code that bans sex outside marriage
People hold up signs during a protest as Indonesia is set to pass a new criminal code that will ban sex outside marriage, cohabitation between unmarried couples, insulting the president, and expressing views counter to the national ideology, outside the Indonesian Parliament buildings in Jakarta, Indonesia, December 5, 2022. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan
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Indonesia’s Mount Semeru eruption buries homes, damages bridge
Mount Semeru volcano spews volcanic ash during an eruption as seen from Candipuro in Lumajang, East Java province, Indonesia, December 4, 2022, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Iwan/ via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. INDONESIA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN INDONESIA.
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Japan monitoring possible tsunami risk from Indonesia volcano, public broadcaster says
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Indonesia earthquake death toll at least 268, many of them children at school
A rescuer walks among the rubble of collapsed buildings during a rescue operation after earthquake hit in Cianjur, West Java province, Indonesia, November 22, 2022, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Yulius Satria Wijaya/ via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. INDONESIA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN INDONESIA.
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Indonesia earthquake kills over 160, search for survivors continues
Workers inspect a store damaged during an earthquake in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia, Monday, Nov. 21, 2022. An earthquake shook Indonesia's main island of Java on Monday damaging dozens of buildings and sending residents into the capital's streets for safety. (AP Photo/Firman Taqur)
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Canada ‘very unlikely’ to join OPEC-like group for nickel, source says
FILE PHOTO: A worker displays nickel ore in a ferronickel smelter owned by state miner Aneka Tambang Tbk at Pomala district, Indonesia, March 30, 2011. REUTERS/Yusuf Ahmad/File Photo
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G20 issues ‘strong and clear’ condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
A handout photo taken by German government speaker Steffen Hebestreit shows German Chancellor Olaf Scholz with U.S. President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron, Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Spain's Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares Bueno, French FM Catherine Colonna, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during talks about the missile strike on Poland at the G20 Leaders' Summit, in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, November 16, 2022. Steffen Hebestreit/BPA/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY
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Trudeau pledges funding for infrastructure and making COVID-19 vaccines in developing countries
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment meeting at the G20 summit, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022, in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Rainforest nations Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia form alliance to save jungle
FILE - An area of forest on fire near a logging area in the Transamazonica highway region, in the municipality of Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sept. 17, 2022. Marina Silva, a former senator and environmental minister, has a message for the U.N. climate summit: Brazil is back when it comes to protecting the Amazon, the largest rainforest in the world that is crucial to staving off the worst effects of climate change. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)
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Melanie Joly unveils sanctions, $500-million for Ukraine military at G20
Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly speaks to reporters during the G20 leaders summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia on Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Indonesia to demolish and rebuild soccer stadium where stampede killed more than 130 people
Indonesian President Joko Widodo talks with FIFA President Gianni Infantino during their meeting at the palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 18, 2022, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Hafidz Mubarak A/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. INDONESIA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN INDONESIA.
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FIFA won’t sanction Indonesia over fatal crush, Widodo says
Indonesian President Joko Widodo, center, accompanied by, from left to right, Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Cultural Affairs of Indonesia Muhadjir Effendy, East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa, Youth and Sports Minister Zainudin Amali, Chairman of Indonesian Soccer Association Mochammad Iriawan, and National Police Chief Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo, speaks to the media during a press conference at Kanjuruhan Stadium where a soccer stampede killed more than 100 people on Saturday, in Malang, East Java, Indonesia, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. Widodo said on Wednesday that locked gates had contributed to the crush at the soccer stadium when police fired tear gas and set off a panicked run for the exits. (AP Photo/Dicky Bisinglasi)
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Indonesian police to charge six people in connection with deadly soccer stadium stampede
MALANG, INDONESIA - OCTOBER 05: Supporters of Arema FC hold placards reading 'Investigate thoroughly' as they attend a mass prayer in memory of the victims who were killed during a stampede at a football match between Arema FC and Persebaya Surabaya on October 05, 2022 in Malang, Indonesia. A riot and stampede broke out at a football stadium in East Java on Saturday. Police fired tear gas to disperse fans who had invaded the pitch and began fighting after the match ended, and subsequently also fired tear gas into the stands, reports said. A stampede for the exits has resulted in at least 131 deaths, media reports said, with many still injured in hospitals. (Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)