When I read the ruling of the court, which declared the lawsuit against the denial of the May 1998 sexual violence ‘niet ...

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

NGO workers and activists also talk about the importance of coalition building with fellow workers and ‘saling jaga,’ or ...

In authoritarian contexts, the state seeks to control its subjects and deploy them to support regime goals. Indonesia’s New Order, often labelled an ‘authoritarian developmentalist’ regime, ...

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

Pada Mei 1998, ketika Jakarta terbakar, saya masih seorang siswa di kota lain. Koran Jawa Pos di pojok halaman pesantren ...

In 1778 the Bataviaasch Genootschap voor Kunsten en Wetenschappen or Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences was established in Batavia, now Jakarta. The exclusively male Board of Directors, was ...

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, ...

The replacement of dangdut with TikTok dances in the 2024 elections heralds a massive demographic shift in Indonesian political campaigning and beyond All three 2024 Indonesian presidential candidates ...

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 ...

Handshake / Unhistoried archive collection. Image is from the archive of a family whose member worked in a Faculty of Law, found in Malang, circa 1970s Indonesia’s transition to democracy in 1998 ...

How do we explain victories of neo-strongmen at recent democratic elections? There is no single answer to this question, but one aspect that requires our attention is the changing nature of election ...