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Nov 26, 2024 Last Updated 2:20 AM, Oct 31, 2024

Book review: Clive of Indonesia

Clive Williams in Jakarta, 1976 / Tuti Kakialatu/TEMPO

The Jokowi-Luhut alliance

President Joko Widodo with Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan (21 June 2023) /Instagram/luhut.pandjaitan

A business alliance forged in 2008 between Joko Widodo and Luhut Pandjaitan formed the basis for a major axis in his presidency

Making music together

At Earhouse Songwriting Club music is not only about the performer or performance, but also about the audience and the act of listening

An EV-fix for mining

Weda Bay nickel camp site at Tanjung Ulie cape on Halmahera island / Muhammad ECTOR Prasetyo CC Wikimedia

Nickel’s ‘green development’ boost to resource nationalism

Essay: Local tradition in a global religious community in modern day Java

Ghosts and spirits often come up in conversation but attitudes are changing

Review: Netflix’s ‘Cigarette Girl’ promotes Big Tobacco interests in Indonesia

The Netflix series has a star-studded cast and was adapted for the screen and directed by leading filmmakers Kamala Andini and Ifa Isfansyah

Netflix’s series Gadis Kretek (Cigarette Girl) romanticises an industry that kills around 290,000 Indonesians each year

Book review: I am that unicorn

Essay: A movement to remember

#BerkainBersama sees young people wearing the traditional prints in their own unique ways /Ghina Tsabitah

This essay is the first in a new series featuring the writing of and edited by young people.

Obituary: Soni Farid Maulana (1962-2022)

Soni Farid Maulana (1962-2022) will be remembered as a literary figure from West Java, especially as a poet, who straddled the worlds of press journalism and of Indonesian letters / Ian Campbell

Book review: Systemic Silencing

Dewi Candraningrum in front of her painting featuring women survivors of enforced military prostitution in Indonesia during the Japanese Occupation

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