Colonial Period

Jatropha biofuel production in Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara

30 September 1919 – 27 January 2008

About cooking, studying Java, and other serious pleasures

Idyllic rural Java is rapidly becoming urban. As a result, peasants are now less in conflict with landlords than with the state. This radically changes the way we think about the best way to organise for change, according to JUNI THAMRIN andVEDI HADIZ.

Unbridled money freely crosses borders and destroys Sumatra's pristine environment.... The 1990s? No, the 1850s, writes FREEK COLOMBIJN.

PETER CAREY finds many parallels between the conduct of the present-day Indonesian regime in East Timor and that of the Netherlands' colonial administration in the Indies before World War II. Not least, both governments took for granted their right to rule.

It may be true that Java rules Indonesia. But Javanese labourers in Sumatra, writes BUDI AGUSTONO, have been at the bottom of the heap for generations.

NELLY VAN DOORN discovers a woman preacher revered for her faith and drive, who questions the image of a male-centred Islam.

Hinduism and Islam were born so far away. How did Indonesians learn of them? KAREL STEENBRINK traces a long history of religious scholars travelling overseas.

Indonesian fishermen whose traditional fishing grounds are in Australian waters may have a Mabo-style claim, says CAMPBELL WATSON.

Throughout its history, outsiders wanted the women's movement to be nationalist first of all. Now women are finding their own voice

The history of football is a history of Indonesia itself

Pramoedya Ananta Toer questions the dominant understanding of Indonesia’s historical path

The revolution begun in 1945 must be completed

Portraits of Islamic women from different centuries and different organisations

Female autonomy became a prominent theme in Pramoedya’s writing.

Missionaries and the military co-operate in converting the Asmat to Christianity.