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Meet the Niqab Squad, the face-covering fan club
A bevy of black-robed niqabis are giggling girlishly as they glide around me, adjusting my abaya, a loose garment that covers me from head to foot.
Jewel Topsfield is Fairfax's Indonesia correspondent. She is an award-winning journalist who has been with Fairfax Media for 10 years. Most recently, she was education editor at The Age for five years. Prior to that she was the launch deputy editor of the National Times, Fairfax’s online opinion site. She also spent three years in the Canberra Press Gallery covering immigration, education, the environment and water.
A bevy of black-robed niqabis are giggling girlishly as they glide around me, adjusting my abaya, a loose garment that covers me from head to foot.
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Prosecutors have called for Perth man Thomas Harman to be jailed for six months after he allegedly stole a $400 pair of Gucci sunglasses from a Bali airport duty free shop.
In a densely populated pocket of Cililitan in East Jakarta, a dog slaughterhouse has been distributing dog meat to local restaurants for 41 years.
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