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Thailand steps up its dubious war on drugs
Pic: AP. Authorities round up ‘addicts’ and place them in compulsory treatment centres Last week, in the early hours of Tuesday morning, a joint task force of 250 army and police personnel descended on...
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A new enemy within? Surabaya sex workers go underground
A ‘karaoke girl’ shouts protests against the city government’s move to close down the Dolly prostitution complex in Indonesia in June. Pic: AP. On the morning of June 18 this year, at least 1,449 sex...
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Indonesia struggles to accommodate exodus of Surabaya sex workers
A sex worker checks her smartphone as she and others wait for customers in a brothel at Dolly prostitution complex in Surabaya earlier this year. Pic: AP. Three months ago, in the Indonesian city of...
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Ex-Dolly sex workers face Papua witch hunt
Sex workers wait for customers inside a brothel at now defunct Dolly complex in Surabaya. A number of former Dolly workers are believed to have moved to Papua. Pic: AP. At a distance of almost 2,000...
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Tough justice: new Jakarta governor to settle on controversial minimum wage
At a time when much of Indonesia’s media remains fixated on president Joko Widodo’s cabinet selection, a separate drama of much more immediate import to Jakarta’s poor has been quietly unfolding...
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Gruesome murders expose plight of Hong Kong’s Indonesian migrants
Rurik Jutting after appearing in court in Hong Kong, Monday. Pic: AP. The horrific double murder of Sumarti Ningsih and Seneng Mujiasih offers yet another chilling reminder of the abuse and...
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Jakarta trade unions reject 10% minimum wage increase, threaten strike action
Indonesian workers march during a May Day rally in Jakarta, Indonesia earlier this year. Pic: AP. After another week of tortuous negotiations and a missed deadline on November 1, Jakarta’s...
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The Look of Silence review: Oppenheimer revisits Indonesia’s genocide
A still from Joshua Oppenheimer’s ‘The Look of Silence’. In 2012 Joshua Oppenheimer’s ‘The Act of Killing’ broke new ground in the field of documentary film-making, collecting a multitude of...
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Asia’s war on meth has failed; now it’s time to look at the alternatives
Two bags of crystal meth and packets of methamphetamine pills trafficked from Burma are displayed after a seizure in Bangkok, Thailand. Pic: AP. An unprecedented rise in methamphetamine trafficking is...
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Burma has ‘failed demonstrably’ to combat drug crime, says Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama has slammed Burma (Myanmar) for failing to combat illicit drug production in its northern border states, as Washington names and shames its weaker allies in the global war...
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