Succession within the Sultanate of Yogyakarta decides who will own vast tracts of land

Conspiracy as foreign policy

Like Toer’s tetralogy before it, Semua Untuk Hindia turns Indonesia’s national history narrative on its head

Cancellations at UWRF 2015 were just the latest example of censorship in democratic Indonesia

Introduction to Man Tiger: A Novel by Eka Kurniawan

Remembering the late Benedict Anderson, world renowned scholar of Indonesia, who passed away last month.

Village morality complicates our assumptions about what it means to ‘succeed’ as a migrant worker

Elections are fuelling the forest fires in Central Kalimantan

A monologue

Islamic State's growing Indonesian support base poses a serious long-term threat

The influence of music videos in the 2014 electoral campaign

The reality for women survivors of conflict-related violence in Indonesia does not match the rhetoric

Ongoing impunity for perpetrators continues to impact on the lives of women survivors

Leading Indonesian commentators explain why the death penalty issue continues to have public and political support

A survey reveals that reporting of the Australians on death row did not foster better understanding of each country’s point of view

For women giving birth in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) and other rural and remote parts of Indonesia, adequate facilities and trained health workers are not easily reached

Saskia Wieringa’s latest novel brings to life a dark period in Indonesia’s past

Indonesia, beginning of the 1980s. The young journalist Tommy comes into contact with the survivors of the genocide that the New Order regime of General Suharto carried out. To her bewilderment she hears stories about lurid dancing, castrations and the murder by young girls of a number of generals in the night of October 1 1965.  Guided by Ibu Sri, herself a former prisoner and a member of the women’s organisation that was held responsible for these alleged sexual and sadistic perversions she sets herself the task to unravel these fantasies.  Who invented these hateful lies which were meant to incite mass organizations to murder possibly one million of their neighbors?  Tommy is betrayed and thrown into prison.