Millions of Indonesians were on the move at the as they returned home to villages and towns across the world’s biggest Muslim nation to mark the end of Ramadan. Some 15 million people were expected to clear out of Jakarta alone — about half the megacity’s population — in an annual exodus known as “mudik” […]
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Thwarting fraud: thousands to ‘crowd-source’ Indonesian election results
More than 10,000 people have volunteered to crowd-source election results posted at polling stations across Indonesia on Wednesday in a real-time bid to thwart attempts at fraud during the biggest single-day election in the world. Nearly 193 million people are eligible to vote for the Southeast Asian country’s president and thousands of legislative seats, a […]
Quake-hit Indonesians refuse to leave high ground: official
Some panicked residents of a quake-hit Indonesian island have refused to return home after the tremor triggered a brief tsunami warning and fears there was more to come, the disaster agency said Saturday. Aftershocks rippled across the east coast of Sulawesi — an island where thousands were killed in a quake-tsunami last year — as […]