Inside Indonesia - a quarterly magazine on Indonesia and its people, culture, politics, economy and environment

Bali-based NGOs are an important part of Indonesia’s growing sustainable agriculture movement Nicola Edwards    A farmer...

In Bali, it’s neither policy, parties nor entrenched elites, but image-savvy politicians and an all-powerful media that are dominating the new elect...

Listening to the grassroots explain the 2009 general election in Bali Bodrek Arsana    Speaking up for women: questions and...

Hindu-Muslim tensions have mounted, but not to boiling point Lene Pedersen    Bali is famed for its Hindu cul...

A law on pornography still divides the community Helen Pausacker    Silenced but still communicating  ...

Or, the years of living with no one to blame Tintin Wulia Train (Tintin Wulia, 2007), detail from Have a Cup of...

Managing conservation, tourism and the needs of local communities in Bali Barat National Park Louise O’Flynn ...

In Kuta, a local surfer has found that it is worthwhile to share waves with tourists. Alex Leonard    The per...

Kuta Beach ceased some time ago to be what the brochures say it is. For Robert Goodfellow, the piles of plastic rubbish are signs of a deeper malaise....

Quite unknown to the tourists, Balinese youth are creating a dynamic musical identity that refuses to be colonised. EMMA BAULCH joins the death thrash...

GLORIA FRYDMAN talks with successful artist Diany Sinung about her favourite subject, other women. Diany Asmina Sinung has her own art gallery. S...

Geoffrey Robinson, The dark side of Paradise: political violence in Bali, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995, xxii, 341 pp. Bali behind ...

Michel Picard, Bali: Cultural tourism and touristic culture, Singapore: Archipelago Press, 1996, 231pp Rrp: $US 25.00. Reviewed by RON WITTO...

CAROL WARREN reports on developments at Padanggalak, where outside money and graft encounter strong opposition. Largely hidden from the eyes o...

Amidst the 'sea, sand, sun and sex' at Kuta, little girls become sex objects for tourists. Some may even be sold overseas. PUTU WIRATA explore...

Strategic planning for disaster remains a low priority for the central government, despite the lessons learned in the aftermath of the Bali bombings. ...

Globalisation offers only disaster to Indonesia's poor. Student demonstrators should extend their protest to the powers governing their economy...

Organic farming takes root in post-bomb Bali   Graeme MacRae Old rice varieties are still harvested the old way, one stalk...

Indonesia’s wealthy partake of a booming spa tourism industry, joining a pan-Asian community of well-to-do consumers of the ‘non-west’   ...

Hindu-Balinese identity is enforced through pork meatballs and praying competitions. Elizabeth Rhoads Walking the streets of Denpasar, you will...