Yogyakarta’s Dawn Prayer Bikers are converting an outlaw tradition into a prayer ritual
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Fiction: Pasung
His gaze is fixated on an indeterminate spot behind me, his arms hang loosely by his sides. Wearing nothing but a pair of faded black shorts, his ribs and collar bones rise above his cavernous stomach. His bulging eyes stand out. A ray of afternoon sun penetrates through a few holes on the attap roof above us, shining on some part of his left arm and shoulder. Sitting on the ground of this six-by-eight-metre hut with his back leaning against the wall, his dark brown skin blends in with the soil underneath us and the bamboo wall surrounding us.
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Contraception at a crossroads
Indonesia’s 50-year-old family planning program has been a great success but is struggling to adapt with women’s needs
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Hunger and culture in West Papua
Oil palm projects are causing hunger in Merauke, both literal and symbolic
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Book reviews: Telling the Dutch colonial wars in Aceh and South Sulawesi
More than six decades after being inspired as an undergraduate in Sydney, Ron Witton retraces his Indonesian language teacher's journey back to Suriname