Politics

Ien Ang returns to Indonesia and her Chinese roots

Ethnic relations in West Kalimantan are marked with blood

Music is still a potent source of cultural resistance in West Papua

Ethnic nationalism under siege in West Papua

Five Indonesian domestic workers face possible death sentences in Singapore

Scholarly research and political reality meet in a Dutch inquiry into Papua

140,000 progressive Muslim volunteers monitored Indonesia’s April elections

A Christian candidate for a Muslim party in North Maluku

Diverse responses to proponents of Islamic law indicate democracy is healthy in South Sulawesi

Irfan Awwas sets out his vision for Islamic law in Indonesia

Protest poetry lives on in post-Suharto Indonesia

Teaching kids is about the little things

Money politics still reigns supreme

Australian university students lend a helping hand

Indonesia’s decentralisation law is causing headaches in Dusun Belido

The elections show that Indonesian workers are not yet a major political presence

The long-running struggle for self-determination continues in Aceh

Munir’s death robbed Indonesia not only of a unique intellectual and activist, but of one of its brightest hopes for the future

There’s more than subversion in Indonesian jokes