As the US deploys tariffs as economic weapons — the story of how a 1930s trade policy accidentally abolished penal sanctions ...

To commemorate the return of these sacred statues, the first Gotong Toapekong procession was held in the eighth month of the ...

Practices such as Imlek masses are a welcome example of tolerance and plurality ...

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Yohana Pekei and Nelly Pigome sell handicrafts by the road in Jayapura. In January 2008 they were interrogated by Indonesian police and intelligence agents because of the bags they make and sell. What ...

Obon Tabroni, head of the Bekasi branch of FSPMI and the force behind the ‘buruh go politik’ campaign in Bekasi. The truck is used by the union in demonstrations and strikes and is usually covered in ...

Although there is no trace of an ancient Jewish community in the Indonesian archipelago, it is possible that Jews arrived in Sumatra and Java as individuals – traders and mariners from the Indian ...

In Indonesia, Islam is on the march. The country has been undergoing an Islamic revival since the 1980s, and religious activity of all kinds escalated in response to the freedom created by the fall of ...