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Sep 11, 2024 Last Updated 2:53 AM, Sep 9, 2024

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Essay: Local tradition in a global religious community in modern day Java

Ghosts and spirits often come up in conversation but attitudes are changing

Review: Netflix’s ‘Cigarette Girl’ promotes Big Tobacco interests in Indonesia

The Netflix series has a star-studded cast and was adapted for the screen and directed by leading filmmakers Kamala Andini and Ifa Isfansyah

Netflix’s series Gadis Kretek (Cigarette Girl) romanticises an industry that kills around 290,000 Indonesians each year

Book review: I am that unicorn

Essay: A movement to remember

#BerkainBersama sees young people wearing the traditional prints in their own unique ways /Ghina Tsabitah

This essay is the first in a new series featuring the writing of and edited by young people.

Obituary: Soni Farid Maulana (1962-2022)

Soni Farid Maulana (1962-2022) will be remembered as a literary figure from West Java, especially as a poet, who straddled the worlds of press journalism and of Indonesian letters / Ian Campbell

Book review: Systemic Silencing

Dewi Candraningrum in front of her painting featuring women survivors of enforced military prostitution in Indonesia during the Japanese Occupation

Apakah Prabowo “fit and proper”?

Dari tiga pria yang mencoba menjadi presiden berikutnya Indonesia, satu orang menonjol, dan bukan karena alasan yang tepat.

Is Prabowo fit and proper to be Indonesia’s next president?

Prabowo performs duties as Minister for Defence, Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force Base, Jakarta, Wednesday (8/3/2023). ANTARA/Gilang Galiartha

Of the three men who seek to be Indonesia’s next president one stands out, and not for the right reasons.

Prabowo's record in need of review

Prabowo Subianto and Joko Widodo / Wahyu Putro A/Antara Foto

Letter to the Editor

Feminists and LGBT

LGBT activists protest during Women's March, 2018, Jakarta / Bayu Fuller_Wikimedia_CC

Can they work together? Religious objections make it hard

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