Indonesia, a country, and Leonardo DiCaprio, an actor, are apparently on the rocks. In fact, the former is threatening to impose a ban, preventing our favorite iced-over lover from crossing its borders. Indonesia, apparently, can let go —and it just might, thanks.
A harrowing new report from UNICEF has found that at least 200 million women and girls in 30 countries have been subjected to full or partial removal of their external genitalia, a bump of 70 million from 2014. New data from Indonesia, where nearly half of all girls under 14 have undergone the procedure, led to the…
Heather Mack, the teen found guilty of murdering her mother and stuffing her into a suitcase in 2014, says their family relationship was “complicated.”
Human rights groups are calling on Indonesia to end the practice of requiring “virginity tests” for female military recruits, in which a doctor visually and manually checks for the presence of a hymen. An Indonesian military official told the Guardian the practice was necessary to weed out “naughty” women, while Human…
Last month, Human Rights Watch reported that female candidates for Indonesia's police force were forced to undergo two-finger "virginity tests" as an indicator of their fitness and morality, drawing much ire from around the world. As a response, Indonesian officials have decided to abolish virginity tests at the…
American pop culture has recently framed polygamy as the domain of Mormons (think Kody Brown of TLC's creepy Sister Wives) and Chloe Sevigny going plain-Jane prairie-style in HBO's Big Love. But a new documentary, Bitter Honey, set in Bali, examines the Indonesian tradition of men having multiple spouses—a practice…
According to authorities investigating the case, Tommy Schaefer confessed to killing his pregnant girlfriend's mother and putting her body in a suitcase.
Heather Lois Mack, who was arrested and charged with murdering her mother at the St. Regis hotel in Bali, is pregnant. The teen and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer allegedly stuffed the body into a bloody suitcase, which is already pretty crazy. Now Mack is upset that her jail accommodations aren't as swank as the pricey…
The body of a 62-year-old American woman was found in a suitcase in a luxury hotel in Bali, and the woman's teenage daughter — and the daughter's boyfriend — have been arrested in connection with the crime.
The penultimate episode of Lindsay featured all the classic elements of "the Lohan suite"—a little bit of Dina, some familial finger-pointing, 7 am coke jaw, pathological tardiness and lack of professional commitment. It was enough to push an Elle editor—who forgot she was still wearing her mic pack—over the edge.
Newly crowned Miss World, Megan Young of the Philippines, center, reacts after winning the Miss World contest, in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
The Miss World pageant, being held in Indonesia this year, is supposed to about smiling beauty queens. But thanks to the Islamic Defenders Front, things are getting ugly.
An Indonesian education official proposed a brilliant idea that would eradicate teen sex-having forever: force female senior high school students to undergo "virginity tests" so that they're too embarrassed to have premarital sex or get into prostitution. Nobel prize for this guy!
When the Miss World pageant began in London in 1951, the winner — Sweden's Kiki Haakonson — was crowned in a two-piece swimsuit. But this year, the pageant is being held in Indonesia — world's most populous Islamic country — and bikinis will not be present.
Earlier this week, we found out that Indonesia would finally be doing something about all the out-of-wedlock sex and black magic that its citizens are enjoying, probably simultaneously, since a proper, married household hardly seems like the place for the occult. A new criminal code currently making the legislative…
In a world divided by conflict and difference, it's beautiful to see that people from different cultures, and countries across the world can share something in common: really fucked up ideas about rape.
Citing security concerns after especially zealous religious groups protested her upcoming performance, Lady Gaga has cancelled a show in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, surely disappointing the 50,000-plus monsters who'd purchased tickets to the June 3 event. Indonesian police had refused to issue the singer a permit…
When someone rises to a position of great power, there are often people from their past who come out of the woodwork looking for some favor or another—and that's no doubt happened many times to President Obama. However, there's one person from his past who hasn't ever asked for anything: The trangender Indonesian…
A 10-year-old Indonesian girl named Juraida was swallowed by a saltwater crocodile yesterday while she and her father and brother were hunting for turtles in a river, news that might lend itself to a comment about the circle of life if it weren't so sad. Lembata Deputy Regent Viktor Mado Waton told the Jakarta Post,…
Every year around this time there are dozens of news stories on various "Christmas miracles," but now something so amazing has happened that it will make every other miracle this season pale in comparison: an 8-year-old girl named Wati who was swept away by the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia has just turned up alive! She…
