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A day at the beach for displaced Rohingya children in Malaysia
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Q&A: Indonesia’s Prabowo Subianto ‘confident’ of election victory
Frontrunner tells Al Jazeera in exclusive interview that he will…
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Rohingya refugees in Indonesia still hope for a better future
On the beach and in a car park, Rohingya refugees are taking…
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Rohingya parents in Indonesia want ‘children to know happiness’
At a temporary shelter in Aceh, a mother who travelled by boat…

Indonesian rights abuse compensation plan fans fears of impunity
Concerns programme to provide victims of abuses from 1965 mass…

‘I can’t get rid of this trauma’: Fury over Indonesia verdicts
Survivors and families of those who died in the October football…

‘Like we don’t exist’: Indigenous fear Indonesia new capital plan
As Indonesia scales up construction of its new capital city,…

Q&A: Indonesia’s new capital chief Bambang Susantono
Man in charge of capital project tells Al Jazeera he is confident…

‘It’s an emergency’: Homelessness on the rise in Hong Kong
In one of the world’s most expensive cities, the number of…
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Indonesian mothers go to court over tainted cough syrup scandal
As the class-action suit over contaminated medicine begins, two…