But the most harrowing illustration of what happens when industrial risks are ‘tamed’ for the interests of the elite is an ...

Twenty years on, in Sidorajo the mud continues to flow and survivors feel neglected, diminished and unheard Toxic mud ...

It is what happens when a society treats education work as a calling from the heart, then prices it like charity. In Indonesia, we have a phrase that sounds noble and dangerous at the same time: ...

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After almost 40 years of living in the Minangkabau region, I have come to realise how little the environment here has changed. Rice fields continue to produce. Fruit trees like durian and mangosteen, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Benteng (Fort) Rotterdam is a cream-brick, red-roofed fortress complex on the historic, harbourside edge of Makassar, South Sulawesi. The seventeenth-century Dutch colonial fort does not look out of ...

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 ...

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 ...