Identity and Pleasure: The Politics of Indonesian Screen Culture invites us to embark on a visual journey of difficult episodes in Indonesian history
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Essay: Masked but not hidden
A small museum in Java is preserving a storytelling tradition, and the thoughts and feelings behind it
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Essay: Getting to know you through a pendopo
A look at the journey and contribution of a longtime Australian teacher and researcher of Indonesian Studies
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When a history seminar becomes toxic
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.
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Facing history
A witness account of the 2015 International People’s Tribunal on 1965
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Review: The ideology of the family state
David Reeve reviews David Bourchier’s important contribution to understandings of political thinking in Indonesia
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Footy, culture and finding community
Indonesians are bonding more deeply with Melbourne, through football and the Krakatoas
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The Floating School
A mobile school in South Sulawesi offers new horizons to young islanders
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Gambling with truth
Aceh’s Commission for Truth and Reconciliation has an important, though delicate, mission ahead
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Encountering Indonesia at AsiaTOPA (Part 2)
Reflections on contemporary Indonesia and Australia-Indonesia relations at the AsiaTOPA festival
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More than six decades after being inspired as an undergraduate in Sydney, Ron Witton retraces his Indonesian language teacher's journey back to Suriname