June 23, 2015 edition

The man on the telephone confirmed that Thailand would defeat Indonesia in the semifinal of the SEA Games Singapore 2015. "If not 3-1, then 4-0 or 3-0," the Malay-accented man told Balbalan Sakti-not his real name-on Saturday two weeks ago. Balbalan had telephoned the man he knows as 'Das' several hours before the match between the two countries was set to start.

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June 16, 2015 edition

At the morgue at Denpasar's Sanglah General Hospital, an officer gazes at Hamidah, who is waiting to identify the body of her missing child. "Are you sure you're ready?" the officer asked her last Friday. She nods.
As he unzips the body bag, the face of a young girl comes into view. It is Angeline, Hamidah's daughter. "Who did this?" Hamidah wailed, bursting into tears. "They too must die."

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June 9, 2015 edition

Repeated phone calls at 2am one night in early August last year finally woke Alex Usman. The caller, a messenger acting on behalf of Fahmi Zulfikar, a member of the Jakarta City Council (DPRD), was waiting in front of Alex's house. The man, who identified himself as Erwin, asked Alex, now a suspect in a corruption case involving the supply of electricity storage units, to immediately go outside.

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June 2, 2015 edition

The weekend party at Venue in Kemang, South Jakarta, usually ends around 3:30 in the morning, when the music is shut off, and the house lights flicked on. Such was the case when Jopi Teguh Lasmana Peranginangin, an environmental and rights-based activist, and a group of his friends left the club Saturday two weeks ago.
"As we began walking out, some people started shouting 'Finished. Out, out!' at us," said Mario Franklin Kossim, Jopi's friend, on Tuesday last week.

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May 26, 2015 edition

Bambang Widjojanto received a letter from the Association of Indonesian Advocates (Peradi) on Friday two weeks ago, sent by the head of the Peradi Supervising Committee, Timbang Pangaribuan. The letter informed the former Deputy Chief of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) that he had committed no ethics violations in his role as a prosecuting attorney in an election dispute at the Constitutional Court regarding a 2010 governor's race in West Kotawaringin, Central Kalimantan.

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May 19, 2015 edition

MIRZA Iskandar received the package on Tuesday afternoon last week. There was no sender's name, not even an address. Director of Investigation and Immigration Enforcement at the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights was also stunned when unwrapping the black plastic. It contained 33 passports belonging to Chinese nationals who were arrested by the Jakarta police on Wednesday two weeks ago.
Police arrested dozens of people when they raided a house on Jalan Kenanga, Cilandak, South Jakarta. Initially the police received a report that the house was believed to be a center for online prostitution. Later, it was revealed that dozens of people were involved in a syndicate of credit card extortion and theft, a crime commonly refered to as carding.

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May 12, 2015 edition

The mosque on Jalan Karya Bakti in Medan is no longer bustling with excited youth. When Tempo visited on Thursday afternoon last week, only a few youths could be seen performing a zikir prayer ritual at the mosque. "Usually, hundreds of people come here," said Rico Purba, one of the tarekat (Muslim group) members.

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