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Nov 26, 2024 Last Updated 2:20 AM, Oct 31, 2024

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Cultural blind-spots of the Anti-Sexual Violence Law

Bride kidnappings can take place in various settings, including the bustling atmosphere of a traditional market / Jacqueline Vel (2015)

Dealing with sexual violence in Indonesia calls for culturally sensitive and context-specific approaches

Review: The history of Onghokham

Review essay: In the shadow of the palms

Oil palm plantation landscape, Papua / Agus Andrianto/CIFOR @Flickr CC

Nusantara: capital gain?

A Hindu blessing ceremony at Titik Nol, September 2022 / Peter Walters

Indigenous residents of the new capital city complain about the ‘land mafia’

Photo essay: Minangkabau pig hunting

Review: Kartini's letters in translation

Now published in both English and Indonesian translation, the annotated collection will provide a better understanding of this Indonesian heroine

‘Tricked by a hoax’

A dozen people were killed in violence in Wamena, West Papua on 23 February 2023

Truth and irrational violence in West Papua

Photo essay: Welcoming Ramadan in Yogyakarta

The Nyadran procession takes place each year at the Kraton in Yogyakarta / Woodward

In the month before the fasting period, Javanese Muslims perform a diversity of sacred rituals

Review: Corruption and care in the age of good governance

Accountability missing in action

Jokowi's acknowledgement of 12 historical cases of gross human rights violations was met with calls for further action on accountability and truth seeking /@aksikamisan Twitter

Joko Widodo’s acknowledgement of past gross human rights abuses falls short

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