Indonesia

  Many analysts see the move as a bid to strengthen outgoing leader Joko Widodo’s attempt to build a political dynasty ahead of elections next year. […]

  Indonesia is set to unveil new rules to curb social media’s expansion in its e-commerce market in a move to protect small local businesses.  

It is coming up on the 21st anniversary of the devastating 2002 Bali bombing as the US Military Commissions plan pretrial hearings for Encep Nurjaman, the Indonesian militant accused of masterminding a crime that claimed the lives of 202 people, but who can’t be prosecuted in his own country. Incarcerated at Cuba’s grim Guantanamo Bay detention […] The post Trial delay for Bali bombing suspect drags on appeared first on Asia Times.

   

  The suspects included five women accused of seducing the victims before asking them to engage in sexual acts during calls, which were recorded.  

  The outgoing Indonesian president says Southeast Asia’s largest economy can attain its fastest expansion in three decades – but only if ‘there’s continuity’.