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Review: Witchcraft and doubt

Book Review: The Tasman Map

Book reviews: Telling the Dutch colonial wars in Aceh and South Sulawesi

Review: Bridges of Friendship

An excellent reminder of the strength and importance of relationships between people of different cultures

Review: Flowers from Universe

Textiles from Java

Review: Revisiting the colonial wars

Review: Ricklefs on Islamisation

Review: The killing season

More than 50 years on, mis-truths about the 1965-66 killings and what motivated them prevail in Indonesia. Geoffrey Robinson's and other books and films on the issue, based on archival research and analysis, continue to be of utmost importance to counter this movement against the truth.

Review: Bicultural leader Siauw Giok Tjhan

Remembering the gang rapes of May 1998

The stories of Seno Gumira Ajidarma have helped to counter the denial of a national trauma

Review: Nation building and national identity in Timor Leste

Review: History wars in the Netherlands

Review: Identity and pleasure, on screen

Identity and Pleasure: The Politics of Indonesian Screen Culture invites us to embark on a visual journey of difficult episodes in Indonesian history

Review: The ideology of the family state

David Reeve reviews David Bourchier’s important contribution to understandings of political thinking in Indonesia

Reviews: Writing Australia and Indonesia

A group of Australia Awards alumni pose for a picture at the 2014 Alumni Dinner, Indonesia.
Reviews: ‘Linking People’ and ‘Troppo’

Review: Beyond decent work

Garment workers working at a factory
A new book examines Indonesian labour struggles through the lens of international political economy theory 

Review: Martial arts meet musical performance

The Fighting Art of Pencak Silat and Its Music reveals the multitude of martial arts practices and celebrations

Review: Footsteps of Indonesians in Victoria

Celebrating fifty years of the Indonesian Community Association of Victoria (IKAWIRIA)

Review: Recounting the revolution

Two recently republished memoirs illustrate the divergence of experiences during the Indonesian Revolution

Review: Queer Indonesians’ constant search for home and belonging 

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

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