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Jokowi’s religious mining rule divides Indonesian’s largest Islamic organization

In May 2024, Indonesian President Joko Widodo, known as Jokowi, signed a new regulation to enable the country’s religious organizations to become mining operators.The policy…
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Hathras: Stampede at religious event kills at least 116, injures 80

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Thousands of people at a religious gathering in India rushed to leave a makeshift tent, setting off a stampede…
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Indonesia’s Jokowi accused of ‘transactional politics’ over religious mining

“We will give NU coal concessions whose reserves are large enough to be managed in order to optimise the organisation,” Bahlil said in a speech on May 31 at a congress of NU…
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Critics see payback in Indonesia’s plan to grant mining permits to religious

Indonesia’s investment minister, Bahlil Lahadalia, has presented a government plan to give mining licenses to the country’s religious communities.Civil society groups have…
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Amid a Housing Crunch, Religious Groups Unlock Land to Build Homes

Emma Budway, a 26-year-old autistic woman who is mostly nonverbal, had been living with her parents in Arlington, Va. She longed for her own place, but because she earned little…
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Pakistan blast: At least 7 dead after blast at religious school in Peshawar

Lady Reading Hospital spokesman, Mohammad Asim, told CNN there were children among the injured. The school is located on Peshawar's ring road, on the southern outskirts of the…
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