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Panggah Ardiansyah: 'Kramat' and the Politics of Indonesian History
If you studied Indonesian history in school in the 1990s, you learned to divide the archipelago's past into neat chapters: Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms, t…
5 hours ago
Rassela Malinda - Papua, Development and Politics From Below
Rassela Malinda – Papua, development and politics from below In his inauguration speech in October 2024 President Prabowo Subianto reiterated his cam…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Linda Susilowati: Gender Transformation in Rural Java
Rural Java has changed enormously over the past half-century. Girls now finish school, women hold community leadership positions, and dual incomes ha…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
Melissa Johnston: Resilient Patriarchies
Timor Leste became independent from Indonesia in 2002, after 24 painful years of Indonesian occupation built on centuries of Portuguese colonisation.…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Maidina Rahmawati - The New Criminal Code
On January 2nd, 2026, Indonesia entered what officials are calling a "new era" of criminal justice. The country implemented a completely new Criminal…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Farabi Fakih and Fathun Karib: Indonesian Ecological Thinking
As Indonesia grapples with increasingly frequent climate disasters—from the devastating floods in Sumatra and Aceh to prolonged droughts affecting fo…
2 months, 1 week ago
Alfira O'Sullivan and Murtala - After the Flood
After the floods – Alfira O’Sullivan and Murtala In late November last year, heavy rainfall brought by Cyclone Senyar saw massive floods and landslid…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Wahyu Astuti - Jakarta Water Crisis
Jakarta is said to be in a water crisis. This is a familiar claim that has been repeated for years as parts of the city sink, groundwater is over-ext…
3 months ago
Ken Setiawan and Lailly Prihatiningtyas - Soeharto as National Hero
On 10 November 2025, Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto made a controversial decision that reignited divisions in Indonesian society: he posthumo…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Zainal Arifin Mochtar: Dirty Vote II o3
Cast your minds back to February 2024, in the campaign lull before Indonesians hit the ballot box, a documentary unceremoniously dropped on youtube. …
4 months, 1 week ago