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In the era of AI-generated news, readers value trust over customised content

Governments are hiding data, threatening democracy. Here’s how it affects you

AI and the news: How it helps, fails, and why that matters

Young voters care about climate change. Politicians don’t

Jokowi anointed his son and social media reacted as you’d expect

Candidates sing the same old anti-corruption song

Indonesia’s massive democracy love-in

Indonesia’s wedding-party democracy is a marriage on the rocks

Indonesia’s young voters: precarious and sidelined by the system

Social media brings young Indonesians in from political fringe

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