SUA Bali does not isolate—it listens. It does not display—it shelters. In doing so, it offers a modest answer to the forces ...

When Indonesian parliamentarians wanted to curtail the powers of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), social media was suddenly awash with messages suggesting that the KPK was full of ...

The collapse of the New Order during the Asian financial crisis paved the way for many political and economic reforms in Indonesia. In exchange for development aid, multilateral donor agencies such as ...

According to local resident Om Nono Muma, most of residents in the small West Sumatran town of Sawahlunto are descendants from migrants who came from other parts of Indonesia, particularly Java, to ...

Indonesians' present-day notions of beauty are embedded in a long and complex relationship between skin colour and race Go to any mall in Indonesia and you will find images of light-skinned, if not ...

Pro-reformasi demonstrators in Solo, May 1998 / Sunaryo Haryo Bayu, Solopos, 1998. Hearing about my mother's experiences in May 1998 became a pivotal moment that has shaped my life. ‘Every second, I ...

A movement seeking justice, healing, and freedom for Black people has become a powerful rallying call for Indigenous West Papuans Resonating with the Black Lives Matter protests in the US and ...

In 2021 the West Sumatran photographer Muhammad Fadli and journalist Fatris MF, published an innovative documentary project called The Banda Journal. Through photography, textual narratives and film, ...

Empires, grand in ambition and hard-hearted in expansion, have fought wars throughout history, whether Rome and Carthage, the Ottomans and the Habsburgs or the Mughals and the Marathas. Their ...

House of the Unsilenced postcard, which reads: ‘This is our house, which we’ve built from our stories and artworks. Here we are not silenced. Here we are free to express ourselves. Listen to our ...

In his introduction to Talking North, Paul Thomas suggests that the study of Indonesian language and culture in Australia might be described as a ‘national project’, a pathway to a deeper ...

Child marriage, defined by international organisations as the marriage of someone under the age of 18, has come under increasing scrutiny in Indonesia in recent years. Several legislative changes have ...