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Despite having a long, documented history of allegedly employing workers at slave wages, the multinational Nike corporation has become the face of the social justice wing of the political left with its newest ad featuring former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

A school in Indonesia apologized on Sunday after dressing children as jihadis for the country’s independence day parade in the city of Probolinggo.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has chosen a hardline Muslim cleric as his running mate in next year’s presidential election, hoping to improve his credentials among the country’s Islamic population.

Facebook is apologizing after the site’s Indonesian users reported seeing confetti and balloon animations when posting about Sunday’s deadly earthquake which killed more than 345 people.

Around 192 people are presumed dead after an overcrowded tourist ferry drowned in Indonesia on Tuesday in the province of North Sumatra.

Islamic terrorists are relocating from the Middle East to Southeast Asia, home to the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, Indonesia, China’s state-owned Global Times warned this week.

India and Indonesia have reportedly embarked on a joint effort to counter China’s expansionism across the Indo-Pacific region with both countries agreeing to step up naval defense and security cooperation, the Times of India reported Thursday.

Joking about bombs at Indonesian airports will carry severe repercussions beyond merely being removed from a plane, including up to a one-year imprisonment sentence, authorities announced on Monday.

A second young family carried out suicide bombings on a police station in Surabaya, Indonesia, this weekend, following a similar attack on multiple churches in the city.

Contents: ISIS linked family of six bombs three churches in Indonesia; Saturday’s Paris knife attacker had links to jihadists in Syria; Growth of Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) in Indonesia

A family of six jihadists blew themselves up at three different Christian churches in Indonesia Sunday, killing at least 13 and injuring scores more.

A hardline Islamist group filed a blasphemy complaint in Indonesia on Wednesday against politician Sukmawati Sukarnoputri, the daughter of modern Indonesia’s founding president Sukarno and the sister of ruling PDI party leader and former president Megawati Sukarnoputri.

Internet services in Bali, Indonesia, will be switched off for 24 hours on Saturday to mark Nyepi, an annual “sacred day of reflection,” according to the Guardian.

Two Indonesian Christians were publicly caned last week after violating the country’s increasing adoption of Sharia Law.

Former Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, sentenced to two years in prison for blasphemy, has appealed the decision against him, triggering the presence of an estimated “thousands” supporting and condemning him before the North Jakarta District Court on Monday.

Rap, media, and fashion mogul and entrepreneur Russell Simmons said in an Instagram post on Tuesday that he is Bali, Indonesia, where he is ‘closed for spiritual maintenance,’ following multiple rape accusations.

Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked foreign fighters from Indonesia, Malaysia, and other predominantly Muslim countries are traveling to Christian-majority Philippines to join the terrorist group’s Southeast Asia wing.

A prominent Malaysian newspaper has published an article education readers on how to spot a homosexual, causing widespread anger among LGBT activists.

A 22-year-old man armed with a machete attacked a priest and several churchgoers after he stormed a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta.

An Indonesian bill proposing a ban on gay sex has received support from all ten political parties in the country.

Indonesia’s Sharia police shaved several transgender women’s heads and “paraded them in front of the public” as part of a recent “community sickness operation.”

Several LGBT apps have been removed from the Google Play Store in Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation in the world, amid increased government persecution against LGBT people.

The Indonesian province of Aceh has ordered female flight attendants transiting the region to don a hijab prior to landing – or face punishment by religious police.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Gen. James Mattis watched members of the Indonesian military showing off a variety of rare skills during his three-day visit to the nation in eastern Asia this week.

Contents: China’s Mekong River dams criticized for affecting other countries’ livelihoods; In policy shift, US sides with Indonesia in South China Sea over Natuna Sea

A mezzanine floor in Jakarta Stock Exchange in Indonesia collapsed on Monday injuring dozens of people, dramatic footage has shown.

President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has not gone over well in Indonesia, but on Tuesday Vice President Jusuf Kalla said that a boycott against the United States would be “misguided.”

Indonesia, the nation with the largest Muslim population in the world, has sentenced ten men to prison following a raid on a gay club and sauna.

Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation in the world, “narrowly rejected” a law that would criminalize gay sex and sex before marriage this week.

Human rights organizations are urging Indonesia’s military to end its practice of conducting virginity tests years after the World Health Organization declared they had no scientific validity.

Four men in Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation in the world, have been arrested for “spreading gay pictures,” and face up to sixteen years in prison, according to a report.

Sympathizers attempting to finance jihadi attacks in Indonesia are increasingly relying on online donations to provide financial support to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), according to counter-terrorism analysts in the country.

Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation in the world, is currently considering a ban on LGBT television characters, according to a report.

A new app has been developed in the Muslim-majority country of Indonesia that is designed to help men find polygamous relationships through the internet, The Jakarta Post has revealed.

Contents: China demands that Indonesia end plans to rename its own territorial waters; Indonesia blocks China’s repeated attempts to annex Indonesia’s Natuna Islands

A raid conducted against Islamist militants by Indonesian police in West Java last week assumed chilling new significance on Friday, as sources in the Indonesian government revealed to Reuters that the terrorists were working on building a radioactive “dirty bomb.”