What appeared as a distant fantasy in the ballroom soon reappeared in institutional form. In the months that followed, the ...

Poulgrain's Blood and Silence adds to this growing body of work. His thesis is that Suharto knew of the coup in advance. For evidence he draws on his previous work in the US and CIA archives, and ...

When Indonesian parliamentarians wanted to curtail the powers of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), social media was suddenly awash with messages suggesting that the KPK was full of ...

The collapse of the New Order during the Asian financial crisis paved the way for many political and economic reforms in Indonesia. In exchange for development aid, multilateral donor agencies such as ...

When in 2019 the Indonesian government wanted to curtail the powers of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), students took to the streets. Many Indonesians were angry about this seemingly ...

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

Mira and Yana performing the combination of Tari Tifa from Maluku with Tari Taume Anuku from Nusa Tenggara Timur at the Eastern Indonesia spectacular event in 2019 / Sanggar Lestari The mixed-race ...

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 ...

The last decade has witnessed an unprecedented rise in interest in colonial history across the world and efforts by grassroots organisations to address the enduring legacies of colonialism. One of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A vendor sells counterfeit shoes based on designs from Nike and Adidas. Counterfeit footwear is among the most popular items amongst Gen Z Shoppers / Alice Sinclair ‘The original price is Rp16 million ...