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

European interest in Indonesian traditional healing has had its ups and downs, but in Java jamu reigns supreme, as it has for a long, long time ...

Abdurrahman Wahid’s life deserves serious and critical reflection Greg Fealy      Gus Dur in 2009 &...

Indonesian doctors have been persecuted for providing safe abortions for almost a century Terry Hull and Ninuk Widyantoro  Â...

Prabowo’s party has deep roots in Indonesian political mythology Aboeprijadi Santoso        Prabowo dreams of a Great...

Century-old conflicts persist in the vast tracts of Indonesia that are designated as state forest Sandra Moniaga   ...

The peacock is no more Barbara Hatley       Rendra (wearing white T-shirt) and other members of Bengkel Th...

People in West Java hold diverse memories of the Darul Islam rebellion and its leader Kartosuwiryo Chiara Formichi ...

A man who left his home to work in a plantation half-way around the world Denie Kasan    A picture of my gran...

The 100 year anniversary of Indonesia’s ‘National Awakening’ fails to inspire Phil King    ...

Hilmar Farid    Alexander Vadimitra I had no idea the short telephone conversation on the morning...

Jatropha biofuel production in Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara Jacqueline Vel    The sign indicates plans for produ...

30 September 1919 – 27 January 2008 Yosef Djakababa    Jusuf Ronodipuro in 2006    Yosef Djak...

About cooking, studying Java, and other serious pleasures Heather Sutherland Ong post-stroke 2002 with friend...

Idyllic rural Java is rapidly becoming urban. As a result, peasants are now less in conflict with landlords than with the state. This radically change...

PETER CAREY finds many parallels between the conduct of the present-day Indonesian regime in East Timor and that of the Netherlands' colonial admi...

Unbridled money freely crosses borders and destroys Sumatra's pristine environment.... The 1990s? No, the 1850s, writes FREEK COLOMBIJN. In ...

It may be true that Java rules Indonesia. But Javanese labourers in Sumatra, writes BUDI AGUSTONO, have been at the bottom of the heap for generations...

Missionaries and the military co-operate in converting the Asmat to Christianity. Astrid de Hontheim People often view the churches in Papua as ...

Female autonomy became a prominent theme in Pramoedya’s writing. Joanne McMillan Nyai Ontosoroh, the main female character in Pramoedya’s n...

Portraits of Islamic women from different centuries and different organisations Eka Srimulyani and Siti Syamsiyatun Islamic women have become mu...