Edition 144: Apr-Jun 2021 - Inside Indonesia: The peoples and cultures of Indonesia

Nov 24, 2024 Last Updated 2:20 AM, Oct 31, 2024

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Expatriates, privilege and racism

/ Artem Beliaikin @Flickr creative commons

As privileged migrants, do expats encounter racism?

Crafting community

Weaving School in Singkarak, West Sumatra (c. 1910) /Weefschool te Singkarak in West-Sumatra, c 1910 / KITLV 32396

Fragments of two girls’ life stories reveal the lived complexities and multiple meanings of being Malay in early twentieth century West Sumatra

Beauty and cosmopolitan whiteness

Javanese women c1870 / Pinterest

Indonesians' present-day notions of beauty are embedded in a long and complex relationship between skin colour and race

Beauty and belonging in West Papua

An indigenous Papuan waria preparing for a beauty pageant / Terje Toomistu

Papuan waria draw on foreign ideals of beauty in their quest for a sense of belonging in their local communities

Exhibited as losers

/ courtesy of the artist

A new artwork holds up a mirror to physical anthropology and its baseless racial categorisations

Art as pilgrimage

Performance 'Rewriting on the Tomb', mass grave in Tulungagung / FX Harsono

Documenting and remembering mass killings of Chinese Indonesians during the Revolutionary war

Dancing for diversity

Mira and Yana performing the combination of Tari Tifa from Maluku with Tari Taume Anuku from Nusa Tenggara Timur at the Eastern Indonesia spectacular event in 2019 / Sanggar Lestari

The mixed-race identity of Indonesian-Australian cultural performers

Review: The Planet, A Lament

/ Asia TOPA, Arts Centre Melbourne

Garin Nugroho’s major theatrical work inadvertently reveals the challenges in representing race in cross-cultural collaboration

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