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

Indonesian labour activists are mourning the passing of a great man Michele Ford and Fahmi Panimbang        Fauzi Abdul...

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

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

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

Newspaper obituaries, from Sabang to Merauke Compiled and translated by Rahadian Permadi, Gerry van Klinken, and Lis Jackson The death of...

The passing of the technocrats Richard Robison    Mohammad Sadli    The Indonesia Project, ANU ...

Indonesia’s premier historian Adrian Vickers At his 85th birthday in February 2006. Credit: Uni...

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

Intellectual, Chinese, atheist, gay - and wholly Indonesian David Reeve Ong in Bandung 1953 - 'deciding to b...

A career soldier who commanded a country.   John Roosa Taciturn, reserved, reclusive, emotionless, Suharto ruled Indonesia for 32 years as ...

An eminent anthropologist, Clifford Geertz (1926–2006) influenced the work of those who followed. Henk Schulte Nordholt Clifford Geertz, who ...

Always controversial, Mochtar Lubis was one of Indonesia’s most respected journalists and best-known authors for over four decades. David Hill ...

An outsider to all establishments, even artistic ones, Semsar Siahaan is yet to be accorded his rightful place among the ranks of great Indonesian art...

Munir’s death robbed Indonesia not only of a unique intellectual and activist, but of one of its brightest hopes for the future Marcus Mietzner ...