People with disability make up 1.4 per cent of Indonesia’s population, or around four million people, and yet they are an ...

Jewish communities in Indonesia have always been tiny, though their history is long. Jewish merchants are recorded in Sumatra in the tenth century, and diasporic and Israeli newspapers regularly ...

After China banned the importation of waste in 2018, Indonesia saw a surge in paper scrap imports containing plastic waste. This in turn led to the government bringing in tighter import rules, ...

Sunting, an exhibition at the National Museum in Jakarta, focuses on women’s contribution to social change in Indonesia, highlighting their leadership and achievements in fields such as education, ...

Imam Aziz passed away from a heart attack early in the morning on 12 July 2025. Hundreds of Indonesians paid tribute to him on their social media platforms. These tributes consistently acknowledged ...

In authoritarian contexts, the state seeks to control its subjects and deploy them to support regime goals. Indonesia’s New Order, often labelled an ‘authoritarian developmentalist’ regime, ...

In 2011, the village of Kadangmas in Kudus District, East Java, was designated as the site of a large water reservoir. In preparation for its construction, government officials went around the village ...

One afternoon when Harits helped his host, Uncle Jino, feed the pigs in the Florinese village of Raga, he heard him complain, ‘This is why we (Manggarai people) are poor, son. Many adat ceremonies and ...

Medan was once the colonial seat of the Deli plantation region in Sumatra. Today it is Indonesia's third largest city with a population of over two million. Medan's ethnically diverse composition ...

For engineer-turned-political scientist Siauw Tion Djin there was no better subject for his PhD thesis than to analyse the political career of his renowned father, Siauw Giok Tjhan. Fortunately that ...