Attacks by Islamic extremists had caused chaos in Indonesia, but social programs designed to reeducate prisoners are underway ...

MAE SOT, Thailand — Thousands of sick, exhausted and terrified young men and women, from countries all over the world, squat in rows, ... Indonesia, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — Eighty-four Indonesians freed from scam centers in Myanmar were set to return home Friday as the repatriation of thousands of such workers after a crackdown strains ...

Mae Sot, a town on the Thai-Myanmar border in Tak province, is notorious as a hub for cross-border human trafficking and transnational organised crime run by Chinese mafia syndicates. Despite this ...

Mae Sot, he says, is the next ground zero for the region’s labor struggle, adding that unions also want the 10 members of ASEAN to act as a trade bloc and enforce basic international workplace ...

Indonesia’s parliament on Thursday passed contentious revisions to the country’s military law, which will allocate more civilian posts for military officers, and street protests against the ...

Mae Sot is now a warren of safehouses, whole streets accommodating largely undocumented refugees. Some are well-established dormitories, funded by foreign aid organisations.

Indonesia nationals who had worked at scam centers in eastern Myanmar walk into a waiting room upon arrival from Thailand, at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Indonesia, Friday ...