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Deborah Cassrels
Deborah Cassrels
SCMP Contributor
Deborah Cassrels was The Australian newspaper's first Bali-based correspondent, working from Indonesia for a decade. She has written extensively on politics, terrorism, crime, social justice and travel. She was nominated for a Walkley Award in 2016 for her work on terrorism in Indonesia. Her first book, a memoir about her journalism in Indonesia, titled Gods and Demons, was published in 2020 by HarperCollins.

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