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Indonesia: Farewell to Joe Cochrane

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Indonesia: Farewell to Joe Cochrane

Over three decades, the American journalist earned a reputation as a keen and impartial observer of the archipelago.

Indonesia: Farewell to Joe Cochrane

Joe Cochrane with Anthony Bourdain in Jakarta, 2018.

Credit: Twitter/Joe Cochrane

On Anthony Bourdain’s last trip across Indonesia he stopped at Jakarta’s foreign correspondents’ bar for a session of wisdom and laughter with another legend of sorts, journalist Joe Cochrane.

“There’s a lot of problems here, but one of the great things going on is these elections are free and fair, and everybody knows it,” Cochrane told the cooking icon and host of the CNN series “Parts Unknown” in 2018.

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