Arts

Five poems celebrating Kartini and her contribution to Indonesia's feminist movement.

Indonesian literature is increasingly open to LGBT stories but the struggle to be heard remains

Performance groups negotiate between Islam and Sundanese tradition

Tradition and innovation in an OzAsia collaboration  

OzAsia festival illuminates the world of Indonesian performance and its social concerns 

A singer for all seasons at ease with many musical repertoires and traditions

Rappers express their music in a Javanese way in Yogyakarta

A look into Indonesian migrant women, identity, and cultural performances. 

Review: Stormy with a Chance of Fried Rice

Indonesia’s struggle to create a culture of reading

How UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage program transformed the batik neighbourhood of Laweyan

Yogyakarta’s little internet community, Taman Sari

An environmental movement is generating new forms of resistance by fusing traditional and contemporary Balinese art with social media

Poems across the Indonesian-Australian divide

Mobile libraries and writers clubs reveal a rich reading and writing culture among Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong

A writer pays homage to the women writers and intellectuals who paved the way for others

A new interdenominational Christian movement is gaining momentum in urban centres

Longlisted for the prestigious Man Booker International Prize Eka Kurniawan’s novel signals the birth of a sophisticated crime noir genre in Indonesian literature

Like Toer’s tetralogy before it, Semua Untuk Hindia turns Indonesia’s national history narrative on its head

Cancellations at UWRF 2015 were just the latest example of censorship in democratic Indonesia