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The Indonesian authorities blocked access to the platform saying many forums were "full of radical and terrorist propaganda".

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Two men yesterday were caned by religious police in Indonesia for gay sex.

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Following her emergency rescue on April 29 from a village in the central Indonesian island of Kalimantan, the albino orangutan is recovering at the Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation’s Orangut

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An Indonesian man, who claimed to be the world’s oldest person, has been laid to rest.

02/05/2017

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Over a thousand rescue workers are searching for survivors a day after a magnitude 6.

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At least 97 people have died in the magnitude 6.5 tremor, the Army says, while hundreds are reportedly injured.

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The Christian and ethnic Chinese governor of Jakarta, Indonesia, is to be investigated on allegations of blasphemy.

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