Postcards from a wasteland

Postcards from a wasteland

Despite being a scene of destruction and heartache, there is a strange beauty in the new landscape created in the wake of the Sidoarjo mud disaster.
Un-natural disaster

Un-natural disaster

An unstoppable flow of mud from an explosion in a gas well in Sidoarjo, East Java, has unleashed a plethora of political issues.
Eight years after 1999

Eight years after 1999

Displaced East Timorese children go hungry in Indonesian West Timor
Rise of the clans

Rise of the clans

Direct elections in South Sulawesi show that a new breed of political godfathers is coming to power in Indonesia’s regions. Parties are increasingly irrelevant, but electoral competition is real.
Glass ceiling in government

Glass ceiling in government

Women in the Ministry of Finance face significant obstacles to advancement
Making democracy work, Islamically

Making democracy work, Islamically

Indonesia’s Muslim educators support democracy, but grapple with how to make that commitment consistent with Islamic law.
Aa Gym

Aa Gym

The rise, fall, and re-branding of a celebrity preacher
Festival Mata Air

Festival Mata Air

A community takes a fresh look at water
Review: Verandah of violence

Review: Verandah of violence

Seattle, Singapore University Press, with University of Washington Press, 2006 ISBN 9789971693312 A$58.00
Strong women, strong unions

Strong women, strong unions

Women are challenging the stereotypes that have long defined Indonesian unionists.
Remembering Ong

Remembering Ong

About cooking, studying Java, and other serious pleasures
Ong Hok Ham, 1933-2007

Ong Hok Ham, 1933-2007

Intellectual, Chinese, atheist, gay - and wholly Indonesian
Sex and tea in Semarang

Sex and tea in Semarang

The peculiar relationship between sex and jasmine tea in downtown Semarang keeps both police and prostitutes in a game of cat and mouse.

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