Tumini showing some of her scars from the Bali bombing. Her wounds were so ghastly that the hospital workers who received her assumed she was dead.

Bali bombing patients caught up in Indonesia’s DOGE-style budget cuts

Tumini still remembers the explosions and screams,and stumbling into that smoky night from Paddy’s bar,where she had been mixing cocktails.

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Men brawl in Bali

‘Let’s go,bro!’ Australian tourist suspected of triggering wild Bali brawl

Bali police are still looking for four tourists involved in the fight in which four security guards were injured.

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Heri Syahrial at the Siron mass grave in Banda Aceh.

The 2004 tsunami was one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history. It also carried peace

The waves that shattered thousands and thousands of Indonesian families also led to peace in a province that had been racked by almost 30 years of war.

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Martin Stephens,Michael Czugaj,Scott Rush,Matthew Norman and Si-Yi Chen look on as Australia and Indonesia sign an agreement for their return home.

‘No legal basis’:Indonesian MP criticises decision to send remaining Bali Nine home

A senior member of an Indonesian parliamentary committee says the transfer of five Bali Nine members was unlawful.

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Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke,left,shakes hands with Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Legal,Human Rights,Immigration and Correctional Affairs,Yusril Ihza Mahendra.

Plans to return Bali Five home to Australia hit by complications

Indonesia has given Australia a draft proposal of how it wants the transfer of the remaining Bali Nine prisoners to work in the most tangible sign a deal will be done.

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Previous Australian governments had raised the fate of the Bali Nine over the years.

Bali Nine members’ fate will be in Australia’s hands if they return home:Indonesia

Indonesia says it will be up to Australia to commute their sentences,as it expects Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke to continue negotiations in Indonesia next week.

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Matthew Norman in Kerobokan prison in 2018. He is still jailed there.

Bali Nine prisoner cries ‘tears of joy’ as Indonesian critics attack transfer deal talks

Sensitive discussions are under way to transfer five men,serving life sentences for their roles in a 2005 heroin smuggling ring,from Indonesia to Australia.

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Thomas Lembong (centre,green tie) having fun with Malcolm Turnbull and Joko Widodo during a visit to Jakarta’s Tanah Abang market in November 2015.

Prominent Widodo critic arrested days into new Indonesian president’s reign

The arrest of Thomas Lembong,who is well-known and respected in Australian political circles,has raised the eyebrows of those trying to understand the new administration of Prabowo Subianto.

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Bibi Rahimi,from Afghanistan,one of several thousand refugees stranded in Indonesia who will lose their UNHCR funding.

Bibi was given $4 a day to survive. Now that allowance has been cut to zero

As humanitarian crises unfold around the globe,the United Nations is looking at its books.

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“Free lunch and milk”. A campaign poster outside a Prabowo Subianto rally before the February election.

An election promise of free food may end up with fish milk on the menu

It is a rather unpleasant sounding beverage but,we are assured,tasty substitute for the real deal.

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