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Losing the battle

Owners of customary marine tenure are fighting for their livelihoods

Wild West TV

Televangelism comes to regional Indonesia

Peace market

Building trust through trade in Ambon

Who benefits?

For the Forest Tobelo people, regional autonomy is a mixed blessing

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Review: This book is a useful contribution to a very small body of scholarly work in English on Indonesian literature. Pam Allen

A shared vision

Portraits of Islamic women from different centuries and different organisations

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Review: Goenawan's essays investigate the meaning of difference in many forms

Generation 98

Djenar Maesa Ayu – one of Indonesia’s exciting new female authors

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Review: Toraja comes alive in this book through the detailed descriptions and interlinking of political, social, economic, and religious processes.

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Review: This book is an important and timely discussion of how nation, belonging, same-gender/same-sex identity and desire as well as geography all intersect in Indonesia

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Review: This book provides readers with an alternative history of Indonesia

Strong women

Female autonomy became a prominent theme in Pramoedya’s writing.

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Review: A History of Modern Indonesia is written in eloquent prose and contains fascinating information on different eras of Indonesian history.

Ubud writers festival

New Indonesian writers receive international exposure.

Jungle to church

Missionaries and the military co-operate in converting the Asmat to Christianity.

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Review: Opposing Suharto

Water, land, and Suharto

Review: Both books illustrate the way the Suharto family exploited Indonesia

History, horror and homelands

History with the right and left brain

Colonial industrial heritage and memory

A UNESCO-listed colonial mining town in West Sumatra raises complex questions about framing Indonesia’s industrial heritage

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