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Published: 22 August 2025

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The intersection of disability and poverty creates layered barriers to financial inclusion

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VANNESSA HEARMAN

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An exhibition at the National Museum shows that marking women’s contribution to the nation remains highly contentious

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Published: 21 July 2025

Manggarai adat practices take on new meanings in today’s rural economy

RONY K. PRATAMA

Published: 17 July 2025

MARTIN ELVANYUS DE PORRES

Published: 14 July 2025

Farmers in Flores want a church-owned plantation to return their land

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Tourism and quiet dispossession in Sianjur Mula-Mula

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How British propaganda tried to provoke a coup and encourage mass killings in 1965-66

DUNCAN GRAHAM

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Indonesian expats are vigorously defending their homeland’s democracy

WAHYUDI AKMALIAH

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BUDIMAN MINASNY

Published: 08 April 2025

As the US deploys tariffs as economic weapons — the story of how a 1930s trade policy accidentally abolished penal sanctions in the Dutch East Indies reveals unintended consequences

FERHANDI PRASETYO

Published: 31 March 2025

Through decades of shifting political landscapes, Tangerang's Chinese community has preserved their sacred traditions

ABELLIA ANGGI WARDANI

Published: 25 March 2025

Notes from Kupang and Atambua

FANNY SYARIFUL ALAM

Published: 23 February 2025

Meetings in Bandung between interfaith and youth groups open minds and eliminate prejudices

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