Category: Indonesia

Jakarta attack highlights jostle to lead Islamic State in Southeast Asia


Last week’s attack on Jakarta showed for the first time that Islamic State violence has arrived in Indonesia, but security experts believe the radical group’s footprint is still light here because militants are jostling to be its regional leader.

Police have identified Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian based in Syria, as the mastermind of the blitz of bombings and gunfire that left all five attackers and two civilians dead on Thursday.

But perhaps the region’s most influential jihadi is a jailed cleric, Aman Abdurrahman, who with just a few couriers and cell phones is able to command around 200 followers from behind bars.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-blast-islamicstate-idUSKCN0UV00U?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter

 

AUSTRALIA PAID PEOPLE SMUGGLERS TO TURN BACK TO INDONESIA, SAYS AMNESTY


australia-indonesia-smugglers The organisation has released a report in which it details evidence of Australian Navy and Border Force officials intercepting a people smuggling boat and paying the crew to turn around.

It recommends a royal commission into the alleged payments, as well as an investigation into a second incident where payments were also alleged to have been made.

Senior ministers have previously expressly denied the involvement of Border Force and Defence Force officials in any payments to people smugglers, but that denial has never been extended to intelligence officials.

http://www.infowars.com/australia-paid-people-smugglers-to-turn-back-to-indonesia-says-amnesty/

Gay Sex Is Now Punished With 100 Lashes in Indonesia’s Province of Aceh


INDONESIA-ISLAM-SHARIA-LAW A new law in the conservative Indonesian province of Aceh will punish from Friday those thought to have had gay sex with 100 lashes from a cane.

Although gay sex is not illegal according to Indonesian national law, Aceh has some autonomy from the central Jakarta government and has adopted a form of Shari‘a law.

http://time.com/4084591/indonesia-aceh-gay-sex-caning/#oo

GAY SEX IS NOW PUNISHED WITH 100 LASHES IN INDONESIA’S PROVINCE OF ACEH


caning Although gay sex is not illegal according to Indonesian national law, Aceh has some autonomy from the central Jakarta government and has adopted a form of Shari‘a law.

Provincial Sharia chief Syahrizal Abbas told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that anal sex between men and “the rubbing of body parts between women for stimulation” was illegal in the western province under a bylaw regulation passed in 2014. The law is only now coming into effect, he said, as the province took a year to educate the public regarding its contents.

http://www.infowars.com/gay-sex-is-now-punished-with-100-lashes-in-indonesias-province-of-aceh/

Indonesia haze: Child evacuation plan prepared


_86283858_029755394-1 Indonesia has struggled to put out the fires, most of which are on peat land which burns for longer and produces more smoke than other fires.

US-based environmental research organisation World Resource Institute said earlier this week that the daily carbon emissions caused by the fires were surpassing the average emissions by the United States.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34612922

INDONESIA HAZE: CHILD EVACUATION PLAN PREPARED


indonesia-haze Co-ordinating Security Minister Luhut Pandjaitan said an evacuation was one contingency among several others.

South-East Asia has been particularly hit hard this year by the haze, an annual occurrence.

It has caused serious health issues, particularly among those living in the epicentres Kalimantan and Sumatra.

http://www.infowars.com/indonesia-haze-child-evacuation-plan-prepared/