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Alexander R. Arifianto is a research fellow with the Indonesia Programme, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Through its diplomatic activism, New Delhi helped re-construct a world in which European imperialism was illegal, illegitimate and no longer tolerated.
The daughter of Indonesia's former President Sukarno, Sukmawati Sukarnoputri, has embraced Hinduism in conversion from Islam in a ritual ceremony on Tuesday.
This move is being held up by human rights and political observers as evidence of religious pluralism in the country.
Sukmawati’s conversion ceremony took place in the house of her grandmother, who herself was a Balinese Hindu. It is located on the Hindu-majority resort island of Bali.
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