In the period before western European powers were able to control Southeast Asian soil and waters, there existed no Indonesia. The archipelago we now know as Indonesia consisted of islands and estates ...

India and Indonesia ... century, Islam had established a strong foothold in northern Sumatra. Islam initially spread among rulers and traders, as Muslim merchants often married local women ...

Registered in 2020, the organisation was founded by 10 people. Safiya, however, was thrust into the limelight because she is at the heart of a legal battle for property rights of Muslim women who are ...

In the Muslim-majority country of Indonesia, the island of Flores is something of an exception. Located in the south of the archipelago, its population is 70 percent Catholic and many young people ...

The men grimaced in pain as an executioner flogged their backs with a stick, after an Islamic leader delivered a sermon on ...

PP London Sumatra Indonesia also owns cocoa plantations in East Java, North Sulawesi and North Sumatra, as well as tea plantations in West Java. Visit our Palm Oil in Indonesia section to read more ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. “Hiking Hijabie” started three years ago when nine Muslim women connected on social media. Now more than ...

The head of Muslim Women's Network U.K. stated Wednesday that one in five Muslim women reported experiencing hate crimes over the past year. The law should treat racial and faith-based hate crimes ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked for the Centre's stand on a Muslim woman's plea seeking to be governed by the Indian succession law instead of Shariat. IMAGE: Kindly note that this image has ...

The islands of maritime Southeast Asia can range from the very large (for instance, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Luzon) to tiny pinpoints on the map (Indonesia is said to comprise 17,000 ... remained ...

Photo: President of Organisation of Muslim Women, Osun State, Alhaja Sadiat Dasola Oladapo (middle) and other leaders of the organization during press conference on World Hijab Day in Osogbo Shina ...

BANDA ACEH, Jan 30 — Four men were flogged in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Thursday for engaging in online gambling, local officials said, the first public lashing of the year under the ...