Yudhoyono Presidency

Working-class Singaporeans travel to Indonesia’s Riau Islands in search of a fantasy built around sex

Bunaken National Marine Park is promoted as an ideal mix of tourism and conservation, but not all local people agree

In our new edition, Inside Indonesia explores different perspectives on tourism

Despite being a scene of destruction and heartache, there is a strange beauty in the new landscape created in the wake of the Sidoarjo mud disaster.

An unstoppable flow of mud from an explosion in a gas well in Sidoarjo, East Java, has unleashed a plethora of political issues.

Displaced East Timorese children go hungry in Indonesian West Timor

Direct elections in South Sulawesi show that a new breed of political godfathers is coming to power in Indonesia’s regions. Parties are increasingly irrelevant, but electoral competition is real.

Indonesia’s premier historian

Women in the Ministry of Finance face significant obstacles to advancement

But her husband won’t come to the party.

The rise, fall, and re-branding of a celebrity preacher

A community takes a fresh look at water

Understanding the Indonesian Council of Ulamas

Rich countries should pay big bucks to reduce emissions in the developing world

Women are challenging the stereotypes that have long defined Indonesian unionists.

Inside Indonesia’s founder looks back

About cooking, studying Java, and other serious pleasures

Intellectual, Chinese, atheist, gay - and wholly Indonesian

The peculiar relationship between sex and jasmine tea in downtown Semarang keeps both police and prostitutes in a game of cat and mouse.