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Indonesia riots against ‘corrupt elites’ and why UNDRIP should sit at the centre of DFATs foreign aid

Over $8 billion spent (*DFAT’s total resourcing 2025–26, p32) and for an aid program worth over $4 billion, we should push for excellence, not adequacy from Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade… But in Indonesia, protests escalated after potential corruption reports that 580 MPs had been receiving a 50 million rupiah monthly housing allowance since […]