National
Everything is allowed
The generation of artists rising after Reformasi is failing to create meaning outside the art market
Coins for the KPK
A public donation campaign shames the national legislature into supporting Indonesia’s premier anti-corruption agency
Joke of the month?
What do you get when you cross Sarah Palin and an Islamic polygamist? Meet Rhoma Irama – Indonesia’s king of dangdut
A new model for mental health care?
Mental health services have been seriously neglected in Indonesia, but emergency responses to the Aceh tsunami and conflict have led to new ways of thinking
Medicine for a sick system
Healthcare in Indonesia suffers from many chronic problems that only healthier politics can cure
Where there’s smoke, there’s politics
Campaigns against smoking are finally gaining ground, but the tobacco lobby is fighting back
Ignorance that kills
Many Indonesian women face great difficulties in accessing safe terminations of unwanted pregnancies
A healthcare revolution in the regions
Regional governments around Indonesia are devising new and ambitious free healthcare schemes for their electorates, but to what end?
Selling nationalism
Indonesian television advertisements are constructing images of Indonesia by appropriating well-known nationalist themes
New social media as a tool for activism
Indonesia is Facebooking, Twittering and blogging, but what effect is this having on campaigns for social justice?
Indonesia is online. The number of Indonesians using the internet increased from two million in 2000 to over 55 million in 2012, the fourth largest number of internet users in Asia (after China, India and Japan).
For the good of the people?
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
