One morning in early December 1965, Ross Taylor, an English engineer working and living in Pasuruan, East Java, went for a ...

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The Republic’s birth was fortified in 1945 by teens with bamboo spears fighting the return of Dutch colonialists backed by British tanks grinding through Surabaya gang (alleys). Now thousands of ...

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

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 ...

Campaign messages flooded Indonesian public spaces, on social media and on the streets / Remco van Loenen. Indonesia’s election year – with legislative and presidential elections held on 14 February ...

Indonesia’s diversity is well known for its languages, peoples, as well as world and local religions. This diversity, however, doesn’t always sit well with everyone. Since the country’s independence ...

At Indonesia Bertutur 2024, a biannual festival exploring Indonesia’s cultural heritage through contemporary art, the historic gardens of Bali’s Museum Puri Lukisan became the stage for Amrta, a ...

A shot from Victoria’s play “Dear Sun, Love Joy” which attempted to bring together Australian history and Indonesian traditional arts, with an Indonesian-Australian team. Photo taken by Darren Gill. I ...

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 ...

In August 2020, amid COVID-19 and not even a year behind schedule, a new airport to serve the Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY) Province officially began operations. Yogyakarta International Airport ...

Pieter Bastiaan van Steenis’ report on the 1918 influenza pandemic in Java is a rare and detailed account by a colonial health official who experienced its horrors first-hand ...