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The recent public caning of two young men in Indonesia for having consensual sex in private is part of a worrying series of attacks on gay people in the country. Although homosexuality is not illegal in the country, it is in the autonomous province of Aceh, which has its own criminal code and where the caning took place.
While it may be comforting to dismiss the incident as peculiar to the province, argues Daniel Peterson, it would be foolhardy to assume that other parts of the archipelago aren’t on a similar trajectory.
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Contemporary Indonesia is heading down the path of conservative Sunni Islamism.
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Daniel Peterson, Australian Catholic University
Recent events in Indonesia should dispel any doubt about the rising influence conservative Sunni Islamist sentiment is having on the country’s laws.
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Politics + Society
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Byung-Seong Min, Griffith University
Game theory applies to conflict and cooperation within competitive situations.
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Abdel-Maoula Chaar, ESA Business School; Karim Medjad, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM)
The country's religion-based power-sharing political system is straining to accommodate hundreds of thousands of new Syrian Sunnis.
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Meera Venkatachalam, University of Mumbai ; Amy Niang, University of the Witwatersrand
Despite being led by different presidents over the past six decades, the French government's policy on Africa has been faithful to its neo-colonial roots. Will Macron's government be any different?
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Environment + Energy
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Ethel Phiri, Stellenbosch University; Palesa Natasha Mothapo, Stellenbosch University
Africa's orphan crops are under-researched and underutilised. They can be a vital tool in combating food and nutrition insecurity on the continent.
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Science + Technology
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Micheal Axelsen, The University of Queensland
Movies tell us that paying a ransom means the bad guys win, but in the real world it's not that simple.
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