This type of environment prompts civil society actors to improve their capacity to respond to such prevailing and intrusive ...

The globalised position of Jakarta tends to feature more contemporary, international arts on the main stage, consigning the ...

Defining the Muslim Faith in the 21 st Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) offers some guidance in attempting to understand ...

Is KGMP working to assist workers or to nullify resistance? The gig economy has continuously served as a backup plan when formal jobs are hard to find. In Indonesia, the number of people working in ...

At almost every major intersection scattered throughout Yogyakarta there are makeshift signs affixed to the back of traffic lights advertising ‘terapi kejantanan’ or men’s virility therapy. These ...

What might Indonesia have achieved if it had not occupied East Timor? As an Indonesian who always sympathised with Timor-Leste’s independence struggle, I once thought its freedom was an impossible ...

The treatment of a keris in a Batik clothing store in Indonesia /author In following the journey of Diponegoro’s keris from a Dutch museum to Indonesia, I encountered the social life of keris as an ...

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 ...

Dea is a 23-year-old student living independently in Pamulang sub-district in South Tangerang, Banten. She has visual impairments and has been struggling to replace her expired debit card at a bank ...

Sunting, an exhibition at the National Museum in Jakarta, focuses on women’s contribution to social change in Indonesia, highlighting their leadership and achievements in fields such as education, ...

One afternoon when Harits helped his host, Uncle Jino, feed the pigs in the Florinese village of Raga, he heard him complain, ‘This is why we (Manggarai people) are poor, son. Many adat ceremonies and ...