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Indonesia Politics · IndonesiaIndonesian political parties have agreed to cut lawmakers' benefits, President Prabowo Subianto said on Sunday, in a bid to calm anti-government protests that have killed at least five people in the country's worst violence in decades. Protests began on Monday over what demonstrators called excessive pay and housing allowances for parliamentarians, escalating into riots on Friday after a motorcycle rideshare driver was killed during police action at a protest site.See the Story
Deadly Indonesia protests force U-turn on lawmakers' perks
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Rohingya · BangladeshBy: Shoba ShuklaFor Myanmar’s Rohingya women, driven out of Myanmar’s Rakhine Province into refugee communities in Bangladesh and other areas, life has become a living, hopeless hell, with most refugee girls growing up without any structured knowledge of their bodies, reproductive health, or mental wellbeing.Menstruation is still treated as something sh…See the Story
Rohingya Refugee Exodus Returns
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