One morning in early December 1965, Ross Taylor, an English engineer working and living in Pasuruan, East Java, went for a stroll. What he saw on his walk shocked him. Floating in the stream which ran ...

Technicians of state utility PLN take part in an exercise to learn what do in case of emergencies in Depok / Antara Photo/Teresia May The government’s approach to this mega power infrastructure ...

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 ...

Urban poor people’s rejection of all candidates in the 2024 Jakarta gubernatorial election shows their capacity to self-organise for their interests ...

Sukinah, farmer and activist/ Leo Plunkett for Gecko Project Mongabay Our Mother’s Land signifies renewed interest in environmental documentary in Indonesia and around the world, particularly since ...

In the Shadow of the Palms by Sophie Chao is first and foremost a book about oil palm and how it has affected the Marind of West Papua, an indigenous people who live in its shadows. In essence, and at ...

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In spring 2019, while completing my Asia Culture Center-Rijksakademie residency, I met Harm Stevens, historian and curator at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. We discussed the significant role of colonial ...

When I used to teach demography and statistics in Australian universities in the 1970s and 1980s, I would have my students look at the statistics of Indonesians in Australia. They were always ...

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 ...