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Jul 03, 2023

Screen politics

/Leo Plunkett for Gecko Project Mongabay

The production of visual content has exploded in recent years. Increasingly this medium is being used in innovative ways to tell stories and encourage action on political and social issues

By EDWIN JURRIËNS & JEMMA PURDEY

Jul 03, 2023

A history of film activism

Surrender of communists in Darah dan Do’a (1950) / Film still supplied

Though characterised by autocracy and authoritarianism, political dissent found a place in the cinema of the Sukarno and Suharto eras

By DAVID HANAN

Jul 03, 2023

Telling human rights stories on film

Nina & The Stolen Children / AJAR

AJAR works with filmmakers, human rights workers, educators and survivors to tell stories on film that aim to raise awareness, bring healing and push for change

By GALUH WANDITA AND AGHNIADI

Jul 03, 2023

Filming female agency in environmental activism

Sukinah, farmer and activist/ Leo Plunkett for Gecko Project Mongabay

Recent documentaries have highlighted the agency of women in tackling the local and global environmental challenges of our time 

By EDWIN JURRIËNS

Jul 05, 2023

Visual storytelling for social change

A Daughter's Memory (2020), directed by Kartika Pratiwi won the Best Film prize in the ReelOzInd! Festival in 2021

Jemma Purdey interviews filmmaker Kartika Pratiwi, who represents a generation of Indonesians using the screen to depict their own versions of Indonesia’s past and hopes for its future

By JEMMA PURDEY & KARTIKA PRATIWI

Jul 03, 2023

Internationalisation as democratisation?

Vengeance is mine, all others pay cash / Netflix

Film festivals, streaming and creative freedom

By THOMAS BARKER

Jul 03, 2023

Maximum impact

/Video4Change

The production and strategic planning behind films looking to effect social change in Indonesia is slowly reaching a new level of sophistication

By EGBERT WITS

Jul 03, 2023

Educating the educators

Participants and facilitators after the third day workshop at UPH / Novi Kurnia

Promoting gender equality and social inclusion in film education will shape the future of Indonesia’s film industry for the better

By EVI ELIYANAH, NOVI KURNIA, IGAK SATRYA WIBAWA, TITO IMANDA

Jul 03, 2023

Internasionalisasi sebagai demokratisasi?

Seperti dendam rindu harus dibayar tuntas (Edwin) seperti yang terlihat di situs web Netflix

Festival film, streaming, dan kebebasan berkreasi

By THOMAS BARKER

Jul 03, 2023

Merekam agen perempuan dalam aktivisme lingkungan

Sukinah di 'Tanah Ibu Kami' / Leo Plunkett Gecko Project Mongabay

Sejumlah film dokumenter terbaru telah menyoroti peran perempuan dalam menghadapi tantangan lingkungan lokal dan global pada masa kini.

By EDWIN JURRIËNS

Jul 03, 2023

Transformasi pendidikan film

Peserta dan fasilitator di workshop di UPH/Novi Kurnia

Mempromosikan kesetaraan gender dan inklusi sosial dalam pendidikan film akan membentuk masa depan industri film Indonesia yang lebih baik

By EVI ELIYANAH, NOVI KURNIA, IGAK SATRYA WIBAWA, TITO IMANDA

Sep 13, 2023

Healing the nation? Part 1

Joko Widodo and his delegation visits Rumoh Geudong, Pidie, Aceh, June 2023/https://www.kominfo.go.id/

Recent attempts to address the Indonesian genocide after 1 October 1966

By SASKIA E. WIERINGA

Aug 24, 2023

Photo essay: Human-Nature connections

he Benawan people's fields are gradually being encroached upon by oil palm plantations / author

Indigenous Dayak Benawan in West Kalimantan

By NIKODEMUS NIKO

Aug 14, 2023

Book review: Civil society elites

By TIM MANN

Jul 17, 2023

Cultural blind-spots of the Anti-Sexual Violence Law

Bride kidnappings can take place in various settings, including the bustling atmosphere of a traditional market / Jacqueline Vel (2015)

Dealing with sexual violence in Indonesia calls for culturally sensitive and context-specific...

By TODY UTAMA & JACQUELINE VEL

Jun 16, 2023

Review: The history of Onghokham

Onghokham/NUS Press

By RON WITTON

May 31, 2023

Review essay: In the shadow of the palms

Oil palm plantation landscape, Papua / Agus Andrianto/CIFOR @Flickr CC

By ISABELL HERRMANS

May 26, 2023

Nusantara: capital gain?

A Hindu blessing ceremony at Titik Nol, September 2022 / Peter Walters

Indigenous residents of the new capital city complain about the ‘land mafia’

By PETER WALTERS, IMAM ARDHIANTO, SONIA ROITMAN & RUSLI CAHYADI

Apr 26, 2023

Photo essay: Minangkabau pig hunting

By BEN GLEESON

Apr 03, 2023

Review: Kartini's letters in translation

Now published in both English and Indonesian translation, the annotated collection will...

By ILSA NELWAN

Mar 22, 2023

‘Tricked by a hoax’

A dozen people were killed in violence in Wamena, West Papua on 23 February 2023

Truth and irrational violence in West Papua

By JENNY MUNRO

Mar 15, 2023

Photo essay: Welcoming Ramadan in Yogyakarta

The Nyadran procession takes place each year at the Kraton in Yogyakarta / Woodward

In the month before the fasting period, Javanese Muslims perform a diversity...

By MARK WOODWARD

This Week

An Indonesian delegation led by Minister Mahfud MD met with exiles in Amsterdam, August 2023/Saskia E Wieringa

Healing the nation? Part 2

SASKIA E. WIERINGA

Recent attempts to address the Indonesian genocide after 1 October 1966

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