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Jul 12, 2024
Interpreting pandemics through history, text and performance
Featuring translations and analysis of rare texts, including the revival of an early 20th century Javanese wayang play, this edition illustrates the multi-faceted ways in which pandemics affect us and...
By SIDDHARTH CHANDRA
Jul 12, 2024
Beware the disease of influenza
An anonymous Javanese text written in response to the flu epidemic of 1918-19, offers its audiences eerily familiar lessons for surviving a pandemic
By NANCY K. FLORIDA
Jul 12, 2024
Petruk 1920 confronts Petruk 2020
An essay introducing Ki Purbo Asmoro’s original wayang tale Tamba Tĕka, Lara Lunga (Remedy Shows Up, Malady Gives Up)
By KATHRYN "KITSIE" EMERSON
Jul 12, 2024
Reporting on Java’s 1918 influenza pandemic
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
By SIDDHARTH CHANDRA
Oct 02, 2024
Elusive promises of the Yogyakarta International Airport’s aerotropolis
Yogyakarta's new international airport and aerotropolis embody national aspirations, but at what...
By KHIDIR M PRAWIROSUSANTO & ELIESTA HANDITYA
Sep 02, 2024
Strong ties
Tradition helps Minangkabau protect the land from foreign investors
By RIKA FEBRIANI
Aug 14, 2024
Essay: The life of H.W. Emanuels (1916-1966)
More than six decades after being inspired as an undergraduate in Sydney...
By RON WITTON
Aug 09, 2024
Essay: Under the poetic stars
Makassar International Writers Festival and its ripple effects
By CAITLIN HUGHES
Aug 01, 2024
Book review: Productive and pious
The faces of young Muslim women in contemporary Indonesia
By ABDULLAH FAQIH
Jul 09, 2024
Essay: Testing out my Bahasa Indonesia
We need to learn more about each other. If we do, we...
By PATRICK J MAHONY
Jul 04, 2024
Obituary: Stop telling, start listening
Owen Podger’s guide to aid-giving
By DUNCAN GRAHAM
Jun 27, 2024
Essay: What remains of the 1998 tragedy for the post-1998 generation
Hearing about my mother's experiences in May 1998 became a pivotal moment...
By ALVINO KUSUMABRATA
Jun 20, 2024
Memeing the precarity of Indonesian startup workers
Beyond the hype, workers in this booming industry are seeking not only...
By IBNU NADZIR
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