Sulawesi

The Palu earthquake
Though earthquakes are common in Palu, residents underestimate the threat, and government response efforts are weak
Two carts rest on a mining site path. The photo is taken at an angle where the path appears to be going down from left to right.
Mining law changes in decentralising Indonesia raises new challenges and opportunities for local communities
An elderly woman stands in a grass field in a rural dwelling, looking to the side.
The 2009 mining law and the community benefit in Sulawesi
A car drives along a concrete road among tall crop fields.
Mining dominates East Luwu GDP but development of agriculture underpins equitable development
A child worker in a squatting position, burning mercury amalgam while smoking a cigarette.
Improved market chain monitoring and recognition of sociocultural dynamics are important for central mercury control
The Floating School
A mobile school in South Sulawesi offers new horizons to young islanders
Speakers address Wahdah Islamiyah's members at the third 'muktamar' (congress) in Jakarta, July 2016. (Imam S/Kiblat.Net)
Organisations like Wahdah Islamiyah envision an ‘Islamic’ citizenship for Indonesia
It runs in the family: the Limpo clan on display, Michael Buehler
The second round of direct elections for governors and district heads shows that democratisation is allowing powerful families to entrench themselves in local politics
Medicine for a sick system
Healthcare in Indonesia suffers from many chronic problems that only healthier politics can cure
I’m a terrific child!
A home schooling project in Kendari provides a new kind of early learning experience
The winds of change
Men in Pekanbaru and Makassar are slowly changing their minds about domestic violence
Fighting to survive
A small community in Southeast Sulawesi is engaged in an ongoing quest for recognition of its right to live on its ancestral land
New leadership, new policies?
The Nahdlatul Ulama congress in Makassar arrests the slide away from liberal views but shows the organisation's vulnerability to outside political interference
Inside the Laskar Jihad
From the Archives Greg Fealy (ii65: Jan-Mar 2001) interviews the leader of a new, radical and militant sect
Survival through slavery
Suspected communists who survived the killings of 1965-66 in South Sulawesi spent the next 20 years working for the military in an isolated jungle camp
Locating culture in the church
Minahasan Christians reinterpret their cultural history and identity through religion

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