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Book Review: Man of Contradictions

Essay: Our Home Together?

Bandung School of Peace is leading the fight against intolerance in West Java

A day in the life of Bali’s miracle worker

Professor Suryani and her team are making a difference

Essay: Celebrating Imlek, Catholic style

Practices such as Imlek masses are a welcome example of tolerance and plurality

Review: Diponegoro's biographer

Review: China, Indonesia and the Cold War

Review: Witchcraft and doubt

Book Review: The Tasman Map

Fiction: Pasung

  His gaze is fixated on an indeterminate spot behind me, his arms hang loosely by his sides. Wearing nothing but a pair of faded black shorts, his ribs and collar bones rise above his cavernous stomach. His bulging eyes stand out. A ray of afternoon sun penetrates through a few holes on the attap roof above us, shining on some part of his left arm and shoulder. Sitting on the ground of this six-by-eight-metre hut with his back leaning against the wall, his dark brown skin blends in with the soil underneath us and the bamboo wall surrounding us.

Book reviews: Telling the Dutch colonial wars in Aceh and South Sulawesi

Review: Bridges of Friendship

An excellent reminder of the strength and importance of relationships between people of different cultures

Aging remarkably

A lifelong activist and retired midwife is teaching her peers to stay engaged… and not burden their children

Review: Flowers from Universe

Textiles from Java

Passing it on

On a recent study trip, journalism student Lisa Favazzo met two people giving back to their communities in extraordinary ways

Review: Landscape of the soul

An exhibition of wall-hangings and mixed-media depicts the experiences of European Dutch and Eurasian people in Indonesia during the Japanese Occupation, the Revolution and after

Review: Revisiting the colonial wars

Review: Short Film 'KTP'

A census worker’s village visit reveals the absurdities of identity card data

Review: Ricklefs on Islamisation

Essay: In God we (don’t) trust

Irreligious youth are looking for their place in religious Indonesia

Photo essay: Hope in the face of disaster

Palu after the tsunami

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