Health

Falling through the cracks

The JKN or the National Health Insurance is failing Indonesia’s most vulnerable

Safe water at a premium

The UN’s claim that 87 per cent of Indonesians have access to safe drinking water seems exaggerated

Food sovereignty and peasant activism

Farmers and would-be farmers in Lombok are fighting a land-rights battle against the tourism industry

Why size matters

Young men in Papua reassert their manhood through penis enlargement

‘No more money for our needles’

Preparing the injection - Sari Damar Ratri

HIV prevention programs lack financial support, with serious consequences

Trials of a mother

For women giving birth in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) and other rural and remote parts of Indonesia, adequate facilities and trained health workers are not easily reached

A more efficient approach to social welfare?

Jokowi’s fresh approach to social welfare and development will not be without its challenges

Keeping women and babies healthy within an unequal system

Problems of unequal access explain differences in Indonesia’s achievement of child mortality and maternal mortality targets

Faultlines and fractures

HIV/AIDS is spreading rapidly because of the profound inequalities that afflict Papua

Famine and fraud

A story of mass starvation tells us much about media coverage and local government in Papua

Challenging times for big tobacco

Rosser 1 Billboard Mataram April 2014 resize

Can the industry’s political and financial resources continue to stall important regulatory change?

Running in style

A new bug for running points toward a new politics of lifestyle

Dying for nothing

Special Autonomy has crippled health services in the Papuan Highlands

Photo essay: Positive is negative

HIV/AIDS is posing an ever greater threat to the health and welfare of people in the highlands of Papua

Lives endangered

Three stories of people with HIV/AIDS in the central highlands of Papua show that both the government and community have a long way to go in confronting this major epidemic