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Nov 23, 2024 Last Updated 2:20 AM, Oct 31, 2024

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What is Australian for es cendol?

Empowering Indonesian women in Sydney through cookery classes

Reconciling NU and the PKI

An Interview with Pak Imam Aziz, Program Coordinator, Syarikat

Reforming pesantren

While reform of Islamic education is necessary, secularisation is not

Critical studies

A thriving Asian studies is integral to a critical liberal humanities program

No money, no worry

Islamic civil society in Indonesia has a great role to play in community development

Insecurity for NGOs

Western security agendas have shifted donor priorities, forcing NGOs to rethink their own agendas

War of words

Journalists covering the conflict in Aceh were embedded in a fierce propaganda war

Cops and kids

Indonesian police reveal their soft spot

An urban tale

Strange companions in Jakarta's Jalan Jaksa

Ethnic stereotyping by politicians

Ethnic stereotyping by local politicians in Lombok fails to please all

Reviving Malayness

Searching for a new dominant ethnic identity

A fair go for all

Taking a legal approach to fighting discrimination

Blood or money?

Ethnicity now plays a role in local politics in South Sumatra but money still rules

How to be Chinese

Ethnic Chinese experience a ‘reawakening’ of their Chinese identity

Remembering today

Ien Ang returns to Indonesia and her Chinese roots

A history of diversity

Ethnic relations in West Kalimantan are marked with blood

Trial by fire

Taking the law into your own hands is now commonplace in urban areas in Indonesia

Wiralodra's buffalo hide

A Jakarta NGO is building alternatives to prostitution

Women and syariah in Aceh

(Michael Renner/Flickr)

Aceh’s women find themselves between an armed conflict and Islamic law

More than just sex

Three women authors take the Indonesian literary world by storm

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