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Dr Jess Melvin - 20 Years of Military Reform
Twenty years after the beginning of military reforms, Talking Indonesia speaks to Dr Jess Melvin about the state and position of the military in cont…
7 years, 10 months ago
Galuh Wandita - Resisting Impunity
More than 50 years on from the 1965-66 mass killings and 20 years after the fall of the New Order authoritarian government, how is Indonesia facing u…
7 years, 10 months ago
Usman Hamid - 20 Years After Soeharto
Two decades after the fall of Suharto, the nature of Indonesian democracy and the trajectory of political reform remain a matter of animated debate i…
7 years, 11 months ago
Dr Melissa Crouch - Blasphemy
Indonesia’s blasphemy legislation gained global attention during the trial of former Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) in 2017. But apar…
7 years, 11 months ago
Dr Ahmad Najib Burhani - Religious Authority in Contemporary Islam
The mass demonstrations against former Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama in 2016 and 2017, and rising intolerance against religious and …
7 years, 11 months ago
Suraya Affif - Environmental Politics
Indonesia's environmental challenges are vast and the impacts of forest degradation, in particular, have implications globally as well as locally. Fo…
8 years ago
Anugerah Rizki Akbari - A New Criminal Code
Indonesia's current criminal code dates to colonial rule, with efforts to complete and enact a new draft of the code consistently foundering. Under t…
8 years ago
Assoc Prof Julie Chernov Hwang - Disengagement from Terrorism
Violent Islamist extremism has been a serious security threat in Indonesia for nearly two decades now. But while terrorist networks continue to recru…
8 years, 1 month ago
Dr Meghan Downes - Urban Youth
Young Indonesians are often misunderstood. The older generations perceive them as entitled, unmotivated, apathetic, and narcissistic, a far cry from …
8 years, 1 month ago
Dr Hew Wai Weng - Being Chinese and Muslim
Ethnic Chinese make up an estimated 1-2 percent of Indonesia's population. Of this group, a tiny minority are Muslim. As such, ethnic Chinese Muslims…
8 years, 2 months ago