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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.

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.”

Contents: UK to send warships to South China Sea, as China’s neighbors militarize; South China Sea countries build larger navies, preparing for war with China

The president of the world’s most populous Muslim country, Indonesia, has taken a page from his Filipino counterpart’s playbook, ordering police officers to shoot drug traffickers who resist address because his country is facing an illicit narcotics crisis.

Contents: China bans Winnie The Pooh because Xi Jinping looks like him; Indonesia defies China and renames part of the South China Sea

Indonesia is attempting to change the name of a portion of the hotly disputed South China Sea that falls within its exclusive economic zone, christening it the “North Natuna Sea.”

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, in remarks Wednesday supporting the return of capital punishment, claimed that his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo had complained to him in private meetings that the United States and the European Union were attempting to meddle in domestic affairs.

The 72-hour public disclosure clock is ticking for Gov. Jerry Brown to convince a couple of Republicans to roll over and pass bills to reauthorize California’s cap-and-trade (“cap-and-tax”) scheme.

Muslim groups in Malaysia and Indonesia are calling for a boycott of Starbucks over the company’s support for LGBT rights in the region.

As we contemplate the fallout from CNN’s effort to hunt down and intimidate the creator of a ten-second comedy video, let us note that people have been jailed around the world for social media posts. Here’s what happens when governments and cyber-vigilantes start deciding that certain “hateful” individuals no longer deserve the privilege of online anonymity.

Former President Barack Obama took a thinly veiled swipe at President Trump in Indonesia Saturday, sounding the alarm about “an aggressive kind of nationalism” and grumbling about the U.S. exit from the Paris climate agreement. Obama, in a trip to

Former President Barack Obama challenged President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate agreement, describing it as the “absence of American leadership.”

The tiny Orang Rimba tribe in Indonesia converted to Islam in January in order to qualify for government benefits, which the tribesmen said are sorely needed to cope with the erosion of their way of life.

On Monday, Islamist cleric Habib Rizieq was accused of exchanging nude photos and graphic messages with a woman, in violation of Indonesia’s strict anti-pornography laws. Rizieq has been accused of other criminally insensitive acts, including insulting the national ideology of Pancasila.

Two suicide bombers attacked a bus station in Jakarta on Wednesday, killing three police officers and wounding at least a dozen people. The Indonesian government believes the Islamic State was responsible.

On Tuesday, a police chief in Indonesia announced the formation of a special task force to investigate gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender activity.

Former Indonesian governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese Christian more widely known by his nickname “Ahok,” said through his lawyers on Tuesday that he would withdraw his appeal against a blasphemy conviction that jailed him for two years for insulting Islam.

Indonesian police arrested 141 men for allegedly having a gay sex party at a spa in Jakarta on Sunday, the New York Times reported.

Fresh from the outrageous conviction of Jakarta’s governor on trumped-up blasphemy charges, the leader of an influential Indonesian Islamist organization is targeting ethnic Chinese citizens and their money next.

Jakarta’s Christian governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, better known by his nickname “Ahok,” has been convicted of blaspheming against Islam and sentenced to two years in jail.

Contents: Ancient tensions flare between China and North Korea; China’s relations deteriorate with both South and North Korea

The AFP news service reports that eight men were arrested in Indonesia on Sunday after organizing a “gay party” at a hotel in Surabaya. Six were soon released, but the other two face charges that could bring them up to 15 years in prison.

The Indonesian military has filed a police report over a story originating at The Intercept, which claimed protests against the governor of Jakarta were actually part of a plot to overthrow President Joko Widodo.

A report circulating in South Korean media claims that two more U.S. aircraft carriers will be sent to join the USS Carl Vinson strike group off the Korean coast.

A python swallowed a 25-year-old Indonesian man whole on the island of Sulawesi, according to local authorities.

Battle-hardened Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists from Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, are expected to soon return to their homeland as the terrorist group loses territory in Iraq and Syria, prompting concerns among Southeast Asian authorities.

Multiple news outlets have confirmed that Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Asia and Australia next month. He is expected to visit Japan, China, and Indonesia, among other stops.

Lawmakers in South Korea on Monday accused North Korea of masterminding the murder of dictator Kim Jong-un’s half-brother Kim Jong-nam in Malaysia. Meanwhile, an Indonesian official revived the theory that the killers were innocent women duped into poisoning the victim.

Indonesian fashion designer Anniesa Hasibuan made a political statement at New York Fashion Week this week by exclusively casting immigrant models for her show.

Jakarta governor Basuki (Ahok) Tjahaja Purnama has won the first round of gubernatorial elections, the first step in securing re-election before a run-off vote in April.

There isn’t much love for Valentine’s Day in certain quarters of Indonesia. As Channel NewsAsia reports, the holiday is routinely denounced as an example of “Western decadence” by “Islamic clerics and some pious Muslims.”

A-list actor Matthew McConaughey sent a sobering message to celebrities and the cultural elites protesting Donald Trump’s election and his new administration: get over it.

One of Indonesia’s richest men and the owner of two new Trump resorts told Breitbart News, in an exclusive interview at Washington’s Trump International Hotel, that he is considering a run for president of Indonesia to reboot his country’s economy. The interview took place one day before his friend Donald J. Trump became president.

The Wall Street Journal reports allegations by an Indonesian official that terrorism in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation has been financed with Bitcoin and PayPay.