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Local shari'a or human rights?

The debate about school uniforms is an ongoing struggle between those supporting the implementation of certain moral and religious standards and those who see such a choice as a basic human right

Two decades after the cultural shift opened up by Reformasi, hope looks very different in Indonesian cinema

The rescue at sea of Rohingya refugees on 24 June 2020 off the North Aceh coast was heralded as a humane gesture at home and internationally / ANTARA FOTO/Rahmad

The criminalisation of people smuggling has created complex moral and legal difficulties for those who assist refugees in peril

View of Singapore. Group of Coolies. GR Lambert and Company c1900 /Wikimedia commons

A long search for a cure for beriberi in Southeast Asia in the late nineteenth century was led by trial and a lot of error

For two decades Bali-based rock band Navicula’s mission has been to tackle some of the country’s biggest social and environmental ills

“Rejeki comes in many forms”. It could take the form of a house, a baby, winning a lottery, a pay rise, and so on / Supplied

How can you get rejeki? Like everything else about rejeki, the answer is something of a mystery.

In contrast to the national motto ‘Unity in Diversity’ and its history of tolerance, Indonesian sexual minorities are not respected

Local shari'a or human rights?

Review essay: Constructing Indonesian girlhood on film

Review: The afterlives of a shipwreck

Acehnese fishermen and Rohingya rescue at sea

Review: Bali, 50 years of changes

Chasing a cure for beriberi

Review: The candidate’s dilemma

Review: 25 years of music activism

Essay: Divine rejeki! What a wonderful windfall

Dorce Gamalama's burial and Indonesia's transgender traditions

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