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Book review: Beauty within tragedy

Essay: Under the poetic stars

Makassar International Writers Festival and its ripple effects

Book review: Productive and pious

The faces of young Muslim women in contemporary Indonesia

Book review: Uncovering Suharto's Cold War

Book review: Clive of Indonesia

Book review: I am that unicorn

Obituary: Soni Farid Maulana (1962-2022)

Book review: Systemic Silencing

Review: Historical parallelism: Batavia-Ommelanden and Jakarta-Bodetabek

Review: The history of Onghokham

Review essay: In the shadow of the palms

Review: Kartini's letters in translation

Now published in both English and Indonesian translation, the annotated collection will provide a better understanding of this Indonesian heroine

Review: Corruption and care in the age of good governance

Book review: 'Merdeka'

Henk Schulte Nordholt and Harry Poeze's new book turns attention to the battle for Indonesian independence and precarious rise of the Republic

Review: The afterlives of a shipwreck

Review: Bali, 50 years of changes

Review: The candidate’s dilemma

Book review: A life told in three parts

Translations of Putu Oka Sukanta’s trilogy of novels, bring his stories of struggle, oppression and resilience spanning over sixty years of Indonesian history, to an English-speaking audience

Book review: Religious pluralism in Indonesia

Book review: Beyond the pale

A major research project on Dutch extreme violence in the Indonesian war of Independence, 1945–1949

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