Boeing is to plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge to resolve a US investigation into two fatal 737 MAX crashes. An official at the US Department of Justice (DoJ) revealed overnight that Boeing would pay […]
Indonesia is on the cusp of ratifying sweeping changes to its criminal code that would criminalise extramarital sex and prohibit unmarried couples from living together. People in Indonesia who have sex outside of marriage could face up […]
Indonesia’s social affairs minister has been accused of taking bribes while arranging food aid for people affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Juliari Batubara is accused of taking cash from contractors supplying food aid parcels to […]
Sweden’s telecoms giant Ericsson has agreed to pay more than $1bn (£760m) to resolve allegations of bribery, the US Department of Justice has announced. It said the company had “admitted to a years-long campaign of […]
A Frenchman sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Indonesia has had his sentence commuted to 19 years in jail, his lawyer and media have said. Félix Dorfin, 35, had been convicted of trafficking about […]
Police in north Indonesia have detained 12 transgender women, cut their long hair, and say they are now “coaching” them to behave like “real men”. Several beauty salons in Aceh province were raided over the […]
More than 530 people have been publicly flogged in Indonesia’s Aceh province since a new Islamic criminal code was enacted in October 2015, new figures show. People caned include hundreds of men and women punished for “victimless crimes” such […]
Indonesian police have arrested 141 men attending what they called a “gay sex party” at a sauna in the capital Jakarta late on Sunday. Police said attendees, including a Briton and a Singaporean, paid 185,000 […]
Indonesia – There were emotional scenes in court on the first day of the blasphemy trial of Jakarta’s governor, a Christian of Chinese descent. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known as Ahok, cried as he denied allegations […]
Amnesty International say children as young as eight are being used in Indonesia to produce palm oil found in popular household products. It also alleges that children are working in “hazardous” conditions. Among those linked […]
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