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| UpdatedAn American woman serving time in Kerobokan prison for killing her own mother has been forced to give over custody of her daughter under an Indonesian law mandating children be cared for outside of prison once they turn two years old.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, family-and-children, indonesia, pacific, asia, australia
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| UpdatedProsecutors lodge an appeal against the four-year sentence handed down to Australian woman Sara Connor this week for her role in the killing of a Bali police officer, saying it "does not reflect a sense of justice".
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, bali, indonesia, australia
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An Indonesian man who organised the failed asylum seeker journey at the centre of the cash-for-boat-turn-back scandal with Australia has been found guilty of people smuggling.
Topics: crime, immigration, indonesia
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| UpdatedBritish company Noble Caledonia incurs the wrath of the Indonesian Government after its ship MV Caledonian Sky hit a prized coral reef causing irreparable damage.
Topics: environmental-impact, environmental-policy, environmental-health, international-law, indonesia, asia, pacific, united-kingdom
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Australian man Giuseppe Serafino receives a seven-month jail term in Bali for possessing the drug hashish.
Topics: drug-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, bali, indonesia, asia, australia
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Topics: documentary, environment, byron-bay-2481, indonesia, sumatra
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Jennifer 'Jungle Jenn' Croes becomes the first foreigner and woman to join an anti-poaching unit on an expedition through Indonesia's Sumatra.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, documentary, environment, byron-bay-2481, indonesia, sumatra
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| UpdatedUS Vice-President Mike Pence will visit Australia, Japan and Indonesia as part of an Asian tour next month, following concerns among allies that the Trump administration will curtail US engagement in the region.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, world-politics, nuclear-issues, united-states, australia, japan, indonesia, korea-republic-of
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| UpdatedByron Bay woman Sara Connor has a week to decide whether she will appeal in Bali's High Court or accept a four-year prison sentence handed to her yesterday.
Topics: crime, courts-and-trials, indonesia
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| UpdatedAustralian woman Sara Connor and British man David Taylor are sentenced to four and six years' jail respectively after being found guilty of killing a Bali policeman.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, bali, indonesia, australia
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The number of Australian cattle exported to Vietnam in 2017 will largely be dictated by price, according to LiveCorp.
Topics: beef-cattle, cattle-feedlots, darwin-0800, katherine-0850, indonesia, vietnam
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| UpdatedPlans for Donald Trump's massive real estate development in Bali hit a roadblock as locals refuse to sell to the US President's Indonesian business partner.
Topics: donald-trump, person, spirituality, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, business-economics-and-finance, bali, indonesia
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An Indonesian court hands down a seven-month jail term to the former war correspondent, whose legal team argued he had used drugs because he suffered from post traumatic stress.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-offences, crime, drug-use, courts-and-trials, bali, indonesia
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The Australian live cattle trade faces increasing competition in the Indonesian market, with buffalo meat from India taking over the bakso ball industry.
Topics: rural, beef-cattle, trade, kununurra-6743, indonesia, darwin-0800, spain
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has praised Indonesian President Joko Widodo as an ally in the struggle against Islamist extremism.
Topics: foreign-affairs, world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, indonesia, australia
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| UpdatedTen years since 21 people were killed in a plane crash in Indonesia, the Prime Minister lays a wreath at the Australian embassy in Jakarta remembering the Australians who died.
Topics: turnbull-malcolm, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, indonesia
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Prosecutors recommend 48-year-old Australian Giuseppe Serafino be jailed for a year after being caught with seven grams of hashish in Bali.
Topics: drug-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, bali, indonesia
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| UpdatedThe prospect that Australia and Indonesia would jointly patrol the South China Sea near Natuna Islands is slapped down by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, who denies reports the Indonesian President had ever suggested it.
Topics: world-politics, defence-and-national-security, indonesia, asia, australia
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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says comments made by Indonesian President Joko Widodo before his visit to Australia didn't relate to joint patrols, but rather greater cooperation to ensure freedom of navigation.
Topics: foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, world-politics, territorial-disputes, bishop-julie, indonesia, australia
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| UpdatedA group of Pacific nations has drawn the attention of the United Nations Human Rights Council to what it says is the "grave situation" in West Papua.
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A group of seven Pacific island nations is calling on the United Nations to investigate allegations of widespread human rights abuses in Indonesia's Papua region, also known as West Papua.
Topics: world-politics, human, rights, land-rights, indonesia, vanuatu, tonga, nauru, palau, tuvalu, marshall-islands, solomon-islands, asia, pacific
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David Taylor tells the Denpasar District Court he is sorry to "the beautiful country of Bali and all the people who live here and to the police force and the colleagues of Wayan Sudarsa".
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, bali, indonesia
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| UpdatedAn Australian Navy patrol ship passes over one of Australia's most significant World War II battle grounds, 75 years after HMAS Perth succumbed to the Japanese.
Topics: navy, world-war-2, history, australia, indonesia
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| UpdatedNot for almost half a century has Saudi Arabia's King graced Indonesia with his presence, but that's all about to change, in a big way.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, foreign-affairs, islam, religion-and-beliefs, terrorism, indonesia, saudi-arabia, asia