Three decades after Suharto fell, the army is back. On the night of 8 May 2026, a screening of the documentary film Pesta ...
In Aceh, tensions boil over between locals and the Rohingya refugees they once generously took in On 26 March 2026 in the ...
Indonesia Emas 2045 remains a vision rather than a fixed outcome. This creates an opportunity not only to invest in ...
The intensive program of Indonesian language and culture courses (PIBBI) at Salatiga’s Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana (UKSW ...
On that sunny day, life in Kampung Bayam went on as it always had. Children chased each other and played around while mothers ...
Casual images taken in public spaces are now searchable data, raising new questions about consent and personal rights. Early ...
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 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 ...
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 last decade has witnessed an unprecedented rise in interest in colonial history across the world and efforts by grassroots organisations to address the enduring legacies of colonialism. One of the ...
Still from the film Prologue of a nation by Bibi Fadlalla in the exhibition Our Colonial Inheritance/ Bibi Fadlalla reproduced with permission Amsterdam ...
According to local resident Om Nono Muma, most of residents in the small West Sumatran town of Sawahlunto are descendants from migrants who came from other parts of Indonesia, particularly Java, to ...