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December 29, 2015 edition

Becoming distracted by shimmering transformations is surprisingly easy in a country like Indonesia where national development is an imperative. Front-page stories from 2015 have told us that transformations are happening all around usfrom democratic consolidation at the regional level to disquieting new trends in violent crime. But such changes, as refreshing as they may be, do not come close to representing the big picture.
Take for instance the violent begal robbery phenomenon that made the headlines early last year. The incidents caused hysteria among residents of Greater Jakarta, stoked both by a sharp increase in sensationalist media reporting of such crimes and dramatic accounts spread by word-of-mouth and social media.

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December 22, 2015 edition

Lying in state at the Adi Jasa funeral home on Tuesday, December 15, Ben Anderson was clad in a brown-colored Madura batik shirt. "That's my batik shirt," said Sugito, the driver who always accompanied Anderson since 2009 whenever he toured East Java. Sugito wiped his tears and tenderly touched the edge of the laced cloth covering the coffin.
Anderson arrived in Surabaya with his close friend, Edward Hasudingan, a.k.a. Edu, five days earlier. Both met in 2004 when Edu studied at Ithaca College in the United States. They stayed at Hotel Santika Pandegiling in Surabaya.

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November 10, 2015 edition

The Outsider
Bung Tomo was the only non-Jakarta youth chosen as a committee member of the New People's Movement (GRB), a forum comprising nationalist leaders.

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