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A showcase of harmony

Celebrating Indonesia’s birthday with the Mandarin choirs of Jakarta

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

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

An emerging conservative Muslim coalition is a force to be reckoned with in Indonesian politics

Identity and Pleasure: The Politics of Indonesian Screen Culture invites us to embark on a visual journey of difficult episodes in Indonesian history

A small museum in Java is preserving a storytelling tradition, and the thoughts and feelings behind it

A look at the journey and contribution of a longtime Australian teacher and researcher of Indonesian Studies

Attacks on a meeting of survivors of 1965 and their supporters at the offices of the Legal Aid Institute in Jakarta in September 2017 do not bode well for human rights in Indonesia. SASKIA E WIERINGA provides a first-hand account of the events.

A witness account of the 2015 International People’s Tribunal on 1965

David Reeve reviews David Bourchier’s important contribution to understandings of political thinking in Indonesia

A showcase of harmony

Review: Ending the silence

Social exclusion in a state urban mega-development

Sectarianism, culture and politics

Review: Identity and pleasure, on screen

Essay: Masked but not hidden

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When a history seminar becomes toxic

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