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Mar 11, 2025 Last Updated 7:38 AM, Feb 24, 2025

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Photo essay: Alive, but not living

Living in limbo Credit: Ali Froghi

Refugees in Makassar protest the sudden increase in heavy policing by immigration authorities

Review: Nation building and national identity in Timor Leste

Review: History wars in the Netherlands

Boys under the blade

Wawonii boys. Credit: Brooke Nolan

Entertainment, violence and inclusion all play a part in the circumcision practices of a remote corner of Southeast Sulawesi

Saving Lombok’s beaches

Loading the day's waste from Gili Air for transport to a Lombok dump

Well-informed local organisations could save Lombok’s beaches from a largely local threat

Diplomasi pendopo dan gamelan sekar laras

Crossing the finish line

Wilson Tjandinegara (photo courtesy of Guoji Ribao)

Bilingual Chinese-Indonesian writer Wilson Tjandinegara built bridges within Indonesia’s literary culture

A showcase of harmony

The Leyun Choir (樂韻合唱團) performs

Celebrating Indonesia’s birthday with the Mandarin choirs of Jakarta

Review: Ending the silence

Soe Tjen Marching’s book The End of Silence: Accounts of the 1965 Genocide in Indonesia brings this past trauma into the present.

Social exclusion in a state urban mega-development

Multi-generational villagers’ land and homes are being expropriated for the new capital Credit: Alyssa Shamsa Wilbur

Indonesia’s first 'new city' may not be addressing the urban problems it was supposed to

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