Health

Bootleg medicine sales are part of Indonesia’s healthcare infrastructure

Improved market chain monitoring and recognition of sociocultural dynamics are important for central mercury control

The New Order actively promoted citizenship of a particular kind for women

Married women endure the highest rate of new HIV infection in Indonesia

The JKN or the National Health Insurance is failing Indonesia’s most vulnerable

The UN’s claim that 87 per cent of Indonesians have access to safe drinking water seems exaggerated

Farmers and would-be farmers in Lombok are fighting a land-rights battle against the tourism industry

Young men in Papua reassert their manhood through penis enlargement

HIV prevention programs lack financial support, with serious consequences

For women giving birth in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) and other rural and remote parts of Indonesia, adequate facilities and trained health workers are not easily reached

Jokowi’s fresh approach to social welfare and development will not be without its challenges

Problems of unequal access explain differences in Indonesia’s achievement of child mortality and maternal mortality targets

HIV/AIDS is spreading rapidly because of the profound inequalities that afflict Papua

A story of mass starvation tells us much about media coverage and local government in Papua

Can the industry’s political and financial resources continue to stall important regulatory change?

A new bug for running points toward a new politics of lifestyle

Special Autonomy has crippled health services in the Papuan Highlands

HIV/AIDS is posing an ever greater threat to the health and welfare of people in the highlands of Papua

Three stories of people with HIV/AIDS in the central highlands of Papua show that both the government and community have a long way to go in confronting this major epidemic