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Jul 03, 2023
Screen politics
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
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
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
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
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?
Film festivals, streaming and creative freedom
By THOMAS BARKER
Jul 03, 2023
Maximum impact
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
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?
Festival film, streaming, dan kebebasan berkreasi
By THOMAS BARKER
Jul 03, 2023
Merekam agen perempuan dalam aktivisme lingkungan
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
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
Recent attempts to address the Indonesian genocide after 1 October 1966
By SASKIA E. WIERINGA
Sep 11, 2023
Review: Historical parallelism: Batavia-Ommelanden and Jakarta-Bodetabek
By VIRDIKA RIZKY UTAMA
Aug 24, 2023
Photo essay: Human-Nature connections
Indigenous Dayak Benawan in West Kalimantan
By NIKODEMUS NIKO
Jul 17, 2023
Cultural blind-spots of the Anti-Sexual Violence Law
Dealing with sexual violence in Indonesia calls for culturally sensitive and context-specific...
By TODY UTAMA & JACQUELINE VEL
May 26, 2023
Nusantara: capital gain?
Indigenous residents of the new capital city complain about the ‘land mafia’
By PETER WALTERS, IMAM ARDHIANTO, SONIA ROITMAN & RUSLI CAHYADI
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 15, 2023
Photo essay: Welcoming Ramadan in Yogyakarta
In the month before the fasting period, Javanese Muslims perform a diversity...
By MARK WOODWARD
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