Amanda Hodge

Amanda HodgeSouth East Asia Correspondent

Amanda Hodge is The Australian’s South East Asia correspondent, based in Jakarta. She has lived and worked in Asia since 2009, covering social and political upheaval from Afghanistan to East Timor. She has won a Walkley Award, Lowy Institute media award and UN Peace award.

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Bali Nine members Scott Rush, Matthew Norman, Si-Yi Chen, Martin Stephens, and Michael Czugaj . Picture: Supplied

Bali Nine ball is in your court: Jakarta

Indonesia’s senior law minister reveals his government has already submitted a draft legal document for the Australian government to review.

Amanda Hodge and Dian Septiari

legal affairsPolitics

Hicks ‘a precedent for Bali Nine return’

Under Australian law, there are no provisions for granting a pardon or early release to Australians convicted overseas and transferred home.

Amanda Hodge

Spotlight on IndonesiaWorld

Tom Lembong, chairman of Indonesia's Investment Coordinating Board, looks on during a Bloomberg Television interview on the closing day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday, Jan. 25, 2019. World leaders, influential executives, bankers and policy makers attend the 49th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos from Jan. 22 - 25. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images

‘Payback’ corruption case starts to spook foreign investors

The case has been ridiculed as the equivalent of charging Indonesian drivers with causing losses to state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina by filling their cars with fuel from a Shell petrol station.

Amanda Hodge

Prabowo ‘wants it done’Nation

Burke’s mission to finesse Bali Nine’s home transfer bid

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke will fly to Jakarta next week for discussions on the transfer of the remaining five Bali Nine prisoners.

Amanda Hodge

World

Election staffers count ballots at a polling station in Banda Aceh on November 27, 2024, after Indonesians voted to pick local leaders in the country's biggest simultaneous regional election, with President Prabowo Subianto seeking to consolidate his grip on power. More than 200 million people were eligible to vote to choose dozens of governors and mayors, and 415 regents, with some candidates linked to ex-leader Joko Widodo, known as Jokowi, vying for coveted positions seen as paths to higher office. (Photo by CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP)

Prabowo consolidates his grip on power

Indonesia’s new president, Prabowo Subianto, looks set to consolidate his grip on power after close to 200 million people voted in the country’s biggest ever simultaneous regional election.

Amanda Hodge

prabowo powerWorld

People queue to cast their votes during the simultaneous regional election in Jakarta on November 27, 2024. Indonesians vote to pick local leaders in the country's biggest simultaneous regional election, in which President Prabowo Subianto seeks to consolidate his party's gains. (Photo by BAY ISMOYO / AFP)

Indonesia’s grand scale democracy an exercise in shrinking choice

The massive regional elections are an early litmus test of the popularity of new president Prabowo Subianto as well as that of his erstwhile political backer, Joko Widodo.

Amanda Hodge

eight suspectsNation

Duong Duc Toan, the manager of Nana Backpack hostel displays a bottle of vodka, in the bar of the hostel in Vang Vieng, Laos, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Methanol deaths: Laos hostel owner arrested

Employees of a Laotian hostel were detained as the grieving families of Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles brought their daughters’ bodies back to Australia.

Amanda Hodge, and Mohammad Alfares

exclusiveTechnology

The AFP is working with Philippine authorities to identify Australian victims of romance scamsafter more than 250 suspected cyber criminals were arrested in Manila.Philippine law enforcement agencies executed a search warrant for suspected immigrationviolations at a scam compound in Pasay City, central Manila, on 3 October, 2024.Soon after, two AFP members and a Manila based-AFP liaison officer, with relevant local partners,searched the scam compound for intelligence relating to Australian scam victims.

Manila bust uncovers scam centre targeting older Australian men

The AFP has uncovered an ‘intelligence goldmine’ from a cyber scam centre which authorities fear may have targeted as many as 5000 Australian men through online dating websites.

Amanda Hodge

prisoner transferWorld

NEWS360 PREMIUM LOCKED CONTENT: NO NEWS.COM, NO SKYNEWS, NO WEST AUSTRALIAN, NO AUSTRALIAN. Bali Nine Matthew Norman inside Kerobokan jail after the Indonesia's Independent Day in Bali. Matthew serving life in jail for drug case in Bali. (Picture. Lukman S. Bintoro)

Bali Nine inmate’s wife says Prabowo ‘will have mercy’ as political heat rises

News of the Australian prisoners’ intended transfer threatens to become a political football just days before Indonesian regional elections this Wednesday.

Amanda Hodge and DIAN SEPTIARI

Judicial transferWorld

Political rows erupt over Bali Nine deal

The Coalition has demanded that Anthony Albanese explain the circumstances behind the deal to transfer the remaining Bali Nine smuggling ring prisoners from Indonesia to Australia.

Noah Yim and Amanda Hodge

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