Rural Indonesia

The Village Law provides recognition for traditional village institutions, but villagers in Bali and Mentawai are not interested

On the island of Flores, a Singaporean lottery based on the Chinese zodiac is a popular pastime

Over-use of pesticides is making the crops ‘sick’, but only farmers educated about the environment understand this

Success and failure of Indramayu farmers’ responses to El-Niño

Biogas reduces the burden of fossil fuel subsidies

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

The people of Rengat, the Dutch archives and Dutch authorities have always known about the massacre of January 1949. Why then is the Dutch public not aware?  

Orang-orang di Rengat dan arsip-arsip di Belanda, kedua-duanya tahu adanya pembantaian di bulan Januari 1949. Lalu, mengapa masyarakat umum Belanda tidak tahu itu?

Pasukan payung Belanda membunuhratusan, bahkan mungkin ribuan orang di Rengat, sebuah kota Sumatra, pada masa Revolusi Nasional Indonesia, tapi kelihatannya orang-orang di luar Rengat tidak tahu itu. 

Dutch paratroopers massacred hundreds, perhaps thousands, in a Sumatran town during the Indonesian Revolution, yet nobody outside Rengat seems to know.

Bali’s World Heritage listing has put its rice-farming culture under stress 

A regional problem with a regional cause  

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

The new Village Law pumps money directly into subsistence villages: a crazy idea, or new development paradigm?

A recent visit to Ambon shows that trade is helping to bridge the divide in a religiously segregated society

The Millennium Development Goals addressed the basic development needs of Indonesia, but tackling poverty now requires a more complex strategy

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

Cosmopolitanism is a dirty word in rural West Java, where creativity and new words are needed to reopen dialogue

Rahmat Ajiguna talks to Eve Warburton about the need to make farmers the centre of food security in Indonesia