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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

House of the Unsilenced postcard, which reads: ‘This is our house, which we’ve built from our stories and artworks. Here we are not silenced. Here we are free to express ourselves. Listen to our ...

The global energy transition is disrupting old fossil fuel industries, including coal mining, power, and exports. On the other hand, resource-rich countries stand to benefit from a new rush for ...

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 ...

L-R: Siti Hediati Hariyadi (Titiek), Sara Djojohadikusumo and Budi Djiwandono are all Gerindra representatives in the DPR 2024-2029/IG @rahayusaraswati Dressed in celebratory batik, the family ...