A supreme ruler for Aceh?
The former rebels show an autocratic streak in their attempt to enthrone an absolute ruler
Reformasi or deformasi?
Indonesia’s House of Regional Representatives is one of its worst performing political organisations
Performing Islam
Ki Enthus Susmono’s hugely popular wayang santri challenges standards of authenticity
Living traditions
A Balinese artist and temple priest builds on her father’s legacy
Review: Picturing Indonesian modernity
Karen Strassler shows how modern photographic practices played a role in the making of national subjects in postcolonial Java
A snip in time
Vasectomies are slowly gaining favour as a family planning method in North Sulawesi
The power to rebuild
A hydroelectricity mega-project is creating new problems in Poso
A culture of sharing
Creative Commons has a clear future in Indonesia
Lovers of the Ahl al-Bayt
Indonesia’s Shi’a are moving ahead between local traditions and foreign orthodoxy
A new educational movement
A market for Islamic schools has opened up among Indonesia’s growing middle class
Digital meditation in Bali
Camera wielding spectators partake in their own form of ceremony at a temple ceremony in Bali
Religious ‘deviancy’ and law
The escalation of violent attacks prompts some local governments to ban the activities of Ahmadiyah
Fending for themselves
A three year campaign by hotel workers in Bandung shows how Indonesian workers are free to organise - and employers are free to resist
Casualty of war
Aceh’s long years of conflict still scar the lives of their victims