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Feb 11, 2023

Revolusi revisited

'Kawan Kawan Revolusi', S. Sudjojono (1947) / Collection of the Presidential Palace of the Republic of Indonesia

The exhibition Revolusi! has triggered ongoing discussions on diversifying and decolonising the narrative of Indonesia’s National Revolution

By YATUN SASTRAMIDJAJA

Feb 11, 2023

Review: 'Revolusi', an exhibition

Cover image for the exhibition

By KATE McGREGOR

Feb 11, 2023

Breaking the silence?

A portrait of Tanya Dezentje by Sudarso, Revolusi exhibition, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, May 2022 / Purdey

The controversy around the exhibition Revolusi! was a missed opportunity to allow space for multiple stories around this sensitive history

By YVETTE KOPIJN

Feb 11, 2023

Afterlives of revolution

Ten faces of the Revolution/ Beyond Walls.

Research and art collective Beyond Walls produced a series of film portraits of descendants of the Indonesian revolution for the exhibition Revolusi! Why was it important to highlight these personal stories? 

By BEYOND WALLS

Feb 11, 2023

A Moluccan soldier and his daughter

Sergeant Major Instructor Petrus Akihary /Collection Mrs. E. Supusepa-Akihary, Culemborg, youngest daughter of Petrus Akihary

The story of a senior officer in the Royal Dutch East Indies Army (KNIL), and of his oldest daughter, give voice to Moluccan experiences in colonial history

By HUIB AKIHARY

Feb 11, 2023

The generation that breaks the silence

COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM/ Military column during the first police action, July/August 1947/ TMnr 10029135.jpg

The third generation since the Revolution inherited trauma and stigma. Now they are speaking out.

By LEA PAMUNGKAS

Feb 11, 2023

Generasi yang memecah kesunyian

COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM/ Military column during the first police action, July/August 1947/ TMnr 10029135.jpg

Generasi ketiga paska Revolusi, adalah generasi yang diwarisi trauma dan stigma. Kini mereka menolak pengingkaran yang dilakukan negara dan generasi sebelumnya.

By LEA PAMUNGKAS

Feb 11, 2023

Dutch terror camps in Bali

Veteran Ketut Mebeh from Tabanan during the yearly commemoration of the Puputan Margarana on 20 November 2016. He was a member of the local fighters’ organisation Barisan Banteng Hitam during the revolution /author

During the Indonesian war of independence the Dutch army set up prison camps across Bali, where torture and murder were common. It failed to break the Balinese resistance

By ANNE-LOT HOEK

Feb 11, 2023

Book review: 'Merdeka'

Henk Schulte Nordholt and Harry Poeze's new book turns attention to the battle for Indonesian independence and precarious rise of the Republic

By JOOST COTE

Feb 11, 2023

Interview: Bonnie Triyana on history as a movement

Bonnie Triyana next to a poster of the exhibition Revolusi! Indonesia Independent at the Rijksmuseum, February 2022. Source: Triyana private collection

By YATUN SASTRAMIDJAJA

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

Feb 07, 2023

Accountability missing in action

Jokowi's acknowledgement of 12 historical cases of gross human rights violations was met with calls for further action on accountability and truth seeking /@aksikamisan Twitter

Joko Widodo’s acknowledgement of past gross human rights abuses falls short

By SRI LESTARI WAHYUNINGROEM

Jan 31, 2023

Local shari'a or human rights?

The debate about school uniforms is an ongoing struggle between those supporting...

By NANAK HIKMATULLAH

Jan 24, 2023

Review essay: Constructing Indonesian girlhood on film

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Two decades after the cultural shift opened up by Reformasi, hope looks...

By ANNISA R. BETA

Dec 12, 2022

Review: The afterlives of a shipwreck

By CHARLOTTE PAPILLAUD LOORAM

Nov 16, 2022

Acehnese fishermen and Rohingya rescue at sea

The rescue at sea of Rohingya refugees on 24 June 2020 off the North Aceh coast was heralded as a humane gesture at home and internationally / ANTARA FOTO/Rahmad

The criminalisation of people smuggling has created complex moral and legal difficulties...

By BILAL DEWANSYAH

Sep 25, 2022

Review: Bali, 50 years of changes

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By MARY ZURBUCHEN

Sep 15, 2022

Chasing a cure for beriberi

View of Singapore. Group of Coolies. GR Lambert and Company c1900 /Wikimedia commons

A long search for a cure for beriberi in Southeast Asia in...

By NIA DELIANA

Aug 23, 2022

Review: The candidate’s dilemma

By BURHANUDDIN MUHTADI

Aug 19, 2022

Review: 25 years of music activism

/Kopernik

For two decades Bali-based rock band Navicula’s mission has been to tackle...

By JULIA WINTERFLOOD

Aug 09, 2022

Essay: Divine rejeki! What a wonderful windfall

“Rejeki comes in many forms”. It could take the form of a house, a baby, winning a lottery, a pay rise, and so on / Supplied

How can you get rejeki? Like everything else about rejeki, the answer...

By NICHOLAS HERRIMAN, GREG ACCIAIOLI, MONIKA WINARNITA

This Week

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

‘Tricked by a hoax’

JENNY MUNRO

Truth and irrational violence in West Papua

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