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

Don’t ignore REDD’s impacts on communities! Brihannala Morgan Village afforestation project, West Kalimantan Judith Ma...

Climate change is compounding the environmental and social justice problems confronted by marginalised communities: a multi-faceted movement is needed...

A new generation of Indonesian theatre activists is staging performances based on the everyday experiences of local communities Andy SW and M...

Despite recent government negotiations, Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia remain disempowered Alex Ong    Indonesi...

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

Central Java farmers refuse to get stuck in cement Alexandra Crosby        No entry for Semen G...

A response to Jim Elmslie and Stuart Upton Richard Chauvel        Non-indigenous Papuans now hold relatively few electe...

Migration has caused many problems in Papua, but it is not part of a genocidal master plan Stuart Upton In the second of two pieces on demog...

Papuan claims of genocide deserve to be taken seriously Jim Elmslie Inside Indonesia presents the first of two different views on the questi...

From the highlands of Papua to exile in England, Benny Wenda is a leader of his people Jennifer Robinson    Benny was detai...

Violence at the National Monument in Jakarta almost caused a conflict between Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah in Lamongan Nathan Franklin ...

People living with HIV face corruption and incompetence in the health system Michael Buehler    Nuraini's tre...

Drug rehabilitation in Indonesia Christopher Morrison    Walls and bars: some residential rehabilitation services in Indone...

A group of Jakarta punks challenges the criminal stigma attached to tattoos Helmi Haska    Bobi of the Marjinal Punk Collec...

A political economy of drugs thrives inside one of Indonesia’s most notorious prisons John M. MacDougall    ‘Pass it ov...

A photo essay about families of the disappeared Henry Ismail In early 1998, only months prior to President Suharto’s resignation, in t...

Living with the Lapindo disaster Sarah Rennie Bambang’s real life nightmare began on 28 May 2006 when the mining company Lapindo was dr...

An unstoppable flow of mud from an explosion in a gas well in Sidoarjo, East Java, has unleashed a plethora of political issues. Jim Schiller ...

Despite being a scene of destruction and heartache, there is a strange beauty in the new landscape created in the wake of the Sidoarjo mud disast...

Modern gay men in Indonesia learn to live alongside traditional concepts of homosexuality. DEDE OETOMO explains. Dede Oetomo I was involved wi...