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Review essay: In the shadow of the palms

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

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

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

Now published in both English and Indonesian translation, the annotated collection will provide a better understanding of this Indonesian heroine

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

Truth and irrational violence in West Papua

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 of sacred rituals

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

The debate about school uniforms is an ongoing struggle between those supporting the implementation of certain moral and religious standards and those who see such a choice as a basic human right

Two decades after the cultural shift opened up by Reformasi, hope looks very different in Indonesian cinema

Review essay: In the shadow of the palms

Nusantara: capital gain?

Photo essay: Minangkabau pig hunting

Review: Kartini's letters in translation

‘Tricked by a hoax’

Photo essay: Welcoming Ramadan in Yogyakarta

Review: Corruption and care in the age of good governance

Accountability missing in action

Local shari'a or human rights?

Review essay: Constructing Indonesian girlhood on film

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