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Jul 12, 2024
Interpreting pandemics through history, text and performance
Featuring translations and analysis of rare texts, including the revival of an early 20th century Javanese wayang play, this edition illustrates the multi-faceted ways in which pandemics affect us and...
By SIDDHARTH CHANDRA
Jul 12, 2024
Beware the disease of influenza
An anonymous Javanese text written in response to the flu epidemic of 1918-19, offers its audiences eerily familiar lessons for surviving a pandemic
By NANCY K. FLORIDA
Jul 12, 2024
Petruk 1920 confronts Petruk 2020
An essay introducing Ki Purbo Asmoro’s original wayang tale Tamba Tĕka, Lara Lunga (Remedy Shows Up, Malady Gives Up)
By KATHRYN "KITSIE" EMERSON
Jul 12, 2024
Reporting on Java’s 1918 influenza pandemic
Pieter Bastiaan van Steenis’ report on the 1918 influenza pandemic in Java is a rare and detailed account by a colonial health official who experienced its horrors first-hand
By SIDDHARTH CHANDRA
Jul 04, 2024
Obituary: Stop telling, start listening
Owen Podger’s guide to aid-giving
By DUNCAN GRAHAM
Jun 27, 2024
Essay: What remains of the 1998 tragedy for the post-1998 generation
Hearing about my mother's experiences in May 1998 became a pivotal moment...
By ALVINO KUSUMABRATA
Jun 20, 2024
Memeing the precarity of Indonesian startup workers
Beyond the hype, workers in this booming industry are seeking not only...
By IBNU NADZIR
Jun 17, 2024
Dancing into the elections
The replacement of dangdut with TikTok dances in the 2024 elections heralds...
By VICTORIA WINATA & MONIKA WINARNITA
May 03, 2024
Labouring in vain?
The Labour Party (Partai Buruh) was revived in the wake of opposition...
By HASNA A. FADHILAH
Apr 12, 2024
Film review: Inheriting collective memories through 'Eksil'
A documentary embraced by TikTokers is changing how young people understand Indonesia’s...
By WAHYUDI AKMALIAH
Apr 11, 2024
Indonesians call for climate action through music
Self-education and lived experience of the impacts of climate change, are driving...
By JULIA WINTERFLOOD
Apr 04, 2024
The Jokowi-Luhut alliance
A business alliance forged in 2008 between Joko Widodo and Luhut Pandjaitan...
By JEREMY MULHOLLAND
This Week
Essay: Testing out my Bahasa Indonesia
PATRICK J MAHONY
We need to learn more about each other. If we do, we will find that in many ways we have much in common
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