Rural Indonesia
Teaching remote Indonesia
A new program sends Indonesia’s best and brightest graduates to teach children in its poorest villages
The middle of nowhere
Highland communities in Papua are demanding access to services, but there is a limit to what can be offered in the most remote settlements
Repairing the damage
Safe havens and abuser counselling helping to reduce domestic violence cases in East Nusa Tenggara
Leaving Indonesia
Passports optional
Eager to work
The value of children’s paid work on Lombok’s tobacco plantations presents a challenge to emotive arguments for the wholesale banning of child labour
A matter of luck
Fighting over the land and forest
Century-old conflicts persist in the vast tracts of Indonesia that are designated as state forest
Land titles do not equal agrarian reform
Activists split with Indonesia’s government over whether land registration helps the rural poor
Frying the wires, freeing the waves
The demand for sustainable timber is colliding with the needs of Central Java farmers
Jusuf Wanandi’s memoir allows glimpses into the mindset of Suharto-era officialdom
Indonesia’s parliament is cracking down on sorcery
Recent ground-breaking publications, an internationally award-winning film and a major conference are opening up new truths about Indonesia’s past
The filmmaker explains that The Act of Killing exposes the imagination of terror
