These measurements tell us little about what disappears with particular trees, whose lives have become entangled with humans ...

Nonetheless, this collective effort is never proportionate to the number and severity of gender-based violence cases they must serve and advocate for. Cases keep rising while government support never ...

Ten years have passed since then without an execution in Indonesia. Based on the United Nations’ standard, countries that ...

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 ...

Pro-reformasi demonstrators in Solo, May 1998 / Sunaryo Haryo Bayu, Solopos, 1998. Hearing about my mother's experiences in May 1998 became a pivotal moment that has shaped my life. ‘Every second, I ...

While Australia switches off to take its long summer break and is largely indifferent to what’s happening next door, Indonesia is seized by election fever. On 14 February 2024, over 200 million ...

Mural in grounds of Taman 65 featuring artwork by artist Art Rakkesiman, Kesiman village, Bali, 5 November 2024/Sharen Chant Bali's image as a tourist playground masks a dark past. Activist Agung Alit ...

A business alliance forged in 2008 between Joko Widodo and Luhut Pandjaitan formed the basis for a major axis in his presidency As Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut ...

How do we explain victories of neo-strongmen at recent democratic elections? There is no single answer to this question, but one aspect that requires our attention is the changing nature of election ...

Over half of the world’s palm oil supplies are sourced from Indonesia, where monocrop oil palm plantations today cover an estimated 16.38 million hectares of land. The expansion of oil palm monocrops ...

Dido Michielsen’s remarkable novel, Lichter dan Ik (Lighter than Me, translated into Indonesian as Lebih putih Dariku) was first published in 2019. It tells the fictional story of an Indonesian woman, ...

How can people hold on to their belief in something they have never seen? At a glance, witchcraft might seem to many readers to be a stale topic over-studied by anthropologists, from the time of E.E.