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    <text> Demonstrations continue against the government in several cities in Indonesia. Nine students have been arrested and two are injured, along with four injured policemen and two parliament members. </text>
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      <text>Indonesian police arrest 88 Chinese nationals in Batam, Riau Islands, for allegedly operating a cyber extortion scheme involving romance scams. </text>
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    <text>Indonesian police arrest 88 Chinese nationals in Batam, Riau Islands, after receiving a tip from Chinese police, for allegedly operating a cyber extortion scheme involving romance scams targeting victims in China. </text>
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      <text>A junta's Thai foreign spokesman announces that junta leader Min Aung Hlaing will attend the next ASEAN summit next April 24 in Jakarta, Indonesia, marking his first foreign trip since taking power on the February 1 coup that deposed Aung San Suu Kyi and Win Myint. Local junta spokespeople refused to comment. </text>
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    <text>The Lewotolo volcano erupts near Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province, forcing more than 2,700 residents to evacuate. </text>
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    <text>Thai Army Chief Apirat Kongsompong and his Indonesian counterpart Andika Perkasa sign an intelligence-sharing agreement aimed at combating the insurgency in Thailand’s southern provinces. </text>
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    <text>The mezzanine overlooking the main lobby of the Indonesia Stock Exchange in Jakarta, Indonesia, collapses, injuring at least 70 people. The Indonesian National Police ruled out terrorism as the cause. </text>
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  <text>Indonesian police announce the arrest of six suspects for trafficking endangered Komodo dragons sourced from East Nusa Tenggara and intended for export to Thailand, and detain two additional individuals for smuggling pangolin scales. </text>
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