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Indonesia's Q!Film Festival

Indonesia'€™s Q!Film Festival
Young Indonesians are using an alternative film festival to promote awareness of sexual diversity

The name game

The name game
Or, the years of living with no one to blame

Buffalo-induced malaria

Buffalo-induced malaria
An Indonesian medical doctor reflects on rural health practices

Inventing Papua

Inventing Papua
Migrants from South Sulawesi have played an important role in manufacturing a Papuan identity

Writing for God

Writing for God
Piety and consumption in popular Islam

Blaming the messenger

Blaming the messenger
Indonesia’s tangled public information laws are keeping the press in check

Grassroots rehabilitation

Grassroots rehabilitation
The people of Poso are rebuilding their lives.

Skin deep

Skin deep
Young Indonesians struggle to resist the power of the skin whitening industry

Back to the drawing board

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NGOs are having to come to terms with the demands of the governance agenda

Where are you (not) from?

Where are you (not) from?
Sundanese have a habit of putting each other in their places

Inside Yudhoyono'€™s anti-corruption machine

Inside Yudhoyono'€™s anti-corruption machine
Despite attempts to re-engineer Indonesia’s governance mechanisms, corruption remains a chronic problem

Crime and criminality

Crime and criminality
This edition of Inside Indonesia explores the complex politics of illegality

The rise and fall of a gangster

The rise and fall of a gangster
Ethics and politics don’t mix in the world of Jakarta’s preman

Prison cum hostel?

Prison cum hostel?
A political economy of drugs thrives inside one of Indonesia’s most notorious prisons

Marginal and tattooed

Marginal and tattooed
A group of Jakarta punks challenges the criminal stigma attached to tattoos

Brutal lessons

Brutal lessons
A culture of violence in schools makes life tough for kids

Personality cults

Personality cults
Foreign news coverage needs to focus on Indonesia’s people, not just its leaders

Ten years of hoping and waiting

Ten years of hoping and waiting
A photo essay about families of the disappeared

Global fashion, remixed

Global fashion, remixed
Indie designers rework commercial iconography – and the business of clothing production

Music for the fight, movements for the soul

Music for the fight, movements for the soul
Fight-choreography in West Java is a source of cultural pride

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