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

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

For much of its modern history drugs have been legally produced and consumed in Indonesia, largely in response to demand at home. As far back as the 10th century, the use of cannabis (ganja), mostly ...

Still from the film Prologue of a nation by Bibi Fadlalla in the exhibition Our Colonial Inheritance/ Bibi Fadlalla reproduced with permission Amsterdam ...

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 ...