Indonesian jihadis believe that the Syrian conflict signals the end of the world
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Café culture
The changing socio-economic status of Yogyakarta’s students threatens the survival of one of the city’s icons
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Seeking identity, seeking Indonesia
Pulang's author reflects on writing the stories of those unseen and unheard
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Review: Voices from the unheard
Leila S. Chudori’s novel Pulang is an important addition to a growing literature examining the events of 1965-66 and its aftermath
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A nation of dunces?
Bureaucrats and politicians have created an education system that is shockingly bad
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Review: Julia’s jihad
The provocative Julia Suryakusuma on the rampage
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Review: A tale of survival and resilience in modern Surabaya
Robbie Peters' new book brings the poor urban kampungs of Surabaya to life
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A bandwagon for everyone
Indonesian political parties are using the Australian spying scandal to score points with voters, both at Australia and President Yudhoyono’s expense
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Democratising culture
Changes in the Indonesian arts parallel Inside Indonesia’s own evolution over a period of thirty years
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The people’s culture: Sjuman Djaja, a film-maker as social critic
An appreciation of the work of one of Indonesia's best-known film-makers who died this year
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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