One commentator said bitterly, ‘Seats are filled more by stage-names and giant billboards than by the quality of policy ...

The left-hand image is the cover of 'Beling: Sajak Nyeri Haté' (Shards of Glass: Poems of Heartache) by Akmal Firmansyah, which police suspected contains instructions for violence against the ...

The 1965 survivors’ community has long been engaged in efforts to document the history of 1965. After the 1998 reform, 1965 survivors Sulami Dodjoprawiro, Hasan Raid, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer ...

Each film is powerful and unsettling in its own way. But watching them outside their homelands - one about Australia in ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the West Papuan district of Merauke, vast swaths of forest and savannah have been razed to make way for monocrop oil palm plantations and other agroindustrial projects over the last decade. These ...

As the election year unfolds, Indonesians are being reminded frequently of the tremendous ‘power’ of the young generation. In a speech in early August 2018, Agus Yudhoyono, poised to run for the vice ...

In the past two years race and racism has come to the forefront of political and social debate in many countries, including Indonesia. America’s #BlackLivesMatter movement resonated globally and ...

Indonesia faces tremendous challenges in the field of mental health. There is a severe shortage of mental health personnel as well as treatment and care facilities. The stigma against mental illness ...

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, ...

Pro-reformasi demonstrators in Solo, May 1998 / Sunaryo Haryo Bayu, Solopos, 1998. ‘Every second, I feel the bitterness’, my mum said. She tried to remember clearly what happened 26 years ago in May ...