Hannah Rambe's The Longan Tree tells a story of modernisation, progress and loss in Indonesia
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Drowning not waving
Challenges for the protection of asylum seekers at sea in Indonesia
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From the archive: Staying the executioners' guns?
Inside Indonesiaa revisits a series of articles from its archive on the theme of the death penalty. We asked the authors of these articles to write an update to accompany their pieces
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Politics from below
Street vendors have organised successfully at the local level, but effective national organisation has proved more elusive
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Film review: Bitter Honey
Robert Lemelson’s latest documentary film takes his audience inside the lives of the women, men and children living in polygamous families in Bali
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Film review: Daniel Ziv’s acclaimed 'Jalanan'
A film that takes the viewer deep into the lives of three people living on Jakarta's margins
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An agrarian reform agenda for Jokowi
Jokowi must accommodate customary rights lest his development agenda spur land conflicts
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Putu gives God a hand
Recipient of the 2014 Khatulistiwa prize for poetry, Oka Rusmini's award-winning short story 'Putu Gives God a Hand' is a sharply witty critique of Balinese culture
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Back with a vengeance
Former migrant workers are finding new empowerment in the bureaucratic jungle of legal aid
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The paradox of virtual youth politics
Social media promotes political engagement among youth, but at the expense of accurate information and real-world political effects
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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