The entrance to a local election booth during the 2008 West Java election. (Ikhlasul Amal/Flickr)

Local democracy

Old elites are still in power, but direct elections now give voters a choice

Reviews

Review: Toraja comes alive in this book through the detailed descriptions and interlinking of political, social, economic, and religious processes.

Reviews

Review: This book is an important and timely discussion of how nation, belonging, same-gender/same-sex identity and desire as well as geography all intersect in Indonesia

Prospects for peace

New agreement to end conflict in Aceh creates surprising trust and optimism
Rendra speaks

Rendra speaks

Australia: an alternative West in Asia?

Whimsical protest

Transforming rubbish into political art

We can do anything

Workers with soul take their message to the kampung

Papuan fantasies

Advocates for Papuans need to examine their motives and prejudices.

Justice on the net

Little written about justice in cyberspace

Reviews

Review: This book provides readers with an alternative history of Indonesia

Political business

Entrepreneurs are transforming political parties.

Brother killing brother

The East Timorese resistance movement also committed crimes.

Facing the past

Overwhelming data makes the East Timor report rock solid

Coming of age

Indonesia’s environment network faces dilemmas as it turns 25.

Alleyway revelry

The ‘Gang’ approach to cross-cultural collaboration.

A double life

Ki Ageng Balak: a friend for those in trouble with the law.

A conservative turn

Liberal Islamic groups have prompted a backlash.

Debating democracy

School debaters struggle against social norms to promote change.

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