Articles - Inside Indonesia: The peoples and cultures of Indonesia

Michael G. Vann

Published: 29 June 2013

Visitors to Semarang’s Lawang Sewu find competing narratives of history, memory and popular culture

Nanang Indra Kurniawan

Published: 24 June 2013

Forest conversion in Kalimantan is a local, national and global concern

Review: Reporting violence and promoting peace

Ross Tapsell

Published: 15 June 2013

A new book opens up debate about the power of the journalist and media organisations reporting conflict in Indonesia

Review: Power, change, and gender relations in rural Java

Rachel Rinaldo

Published: 14 June 2013

Tickamyer and Kusujiarti’s new book is essential reading

Sharukhan's Indonesian fans outside his concert at Jakarta International Convention Centre (8/12/2012)

Wil Mackey

Published: 07 June 2013

This Indian film’s popularity reveals a popular critique of the US

Pat Walsh

Published: 01 June 2013

Then, as today, volunteers were vital for Inside Indonesia's survival and success

Pat Walsh

Published: 01 June 2013

Co-founder Pat Walsh reveals how the magazine grew and thrived in the 1980s and 1990s

Bobby Anderson

Published: 27 May 2013

Papua’s rural lowlands are being transformed by an encroaching global economy, but what happens to the people there is an open question

Sorcery and black magic remain serious concerns for many Indonesians AyAres151 at flickr.com

Nicholas Herriman

Published: 12 May 2013

Indonesia’s parliament is cracking down on sorcery

Merryn Lagaida

Published: 06 May 2013

The demand for sustainable timber is colliding with the needs of Central Java farmers

A researcher comforts her informant Memori-Memori Terlarang

Gerry van Klinken

Published: 05 May 2013

Recent ground-breaking publications, an internationally award-winning film and a major conference are opening up new truths about Indonesia’s past

John Roosa

Published: 05 May 2013

Jusuf Wanandi’s memoir allows glimpses into the mindset of Suharto-era officialdom

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Jess Melvin

Published: 28 April 2013

Joshua Oppenheimer’s groundbreaking new film raises disturbing questions about why perpetrators of the 1965-66 mass killings still enjoy impunity for their actions

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Published: 28 April 2013

The filmmaker explains that The Act of Killing exposes the imagination of terror

Robert Cribb

Published: 20 April 2013

Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing is a bold, disturbing and ultimately unsatisfactory exploration of the place of violence in modern Indonesia

'Truth takes a while, justice even longer'

Ron Hatley

Published: 20 April 2013

In 2012 significant new information exposed critical truths about the 1965 massacres in Indonesia, but there remain major obstacles to recovery and reconciliation