Regions

Strategic planning for disaster remains a low priority for the central government, despite the lessons learned in the aftermath of the Bali bombings

Displaced East Timorese children go hungry in Indonesian West Timor

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.

Indonesia’s premier historian

Women in the Ministry of Finance face significant obstacles to advancement

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

But her husband won’t come to the party.

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

A community takes a fresh look at water

Understanding the Indonesian Council of Ulamas

Rich countries should pay big bucks to reduce emissions in the developing world

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

Inside Indonesia’s founder looks back

About cooking, studying Java, and other serious pleasures

Intellectual, Chinese, atheist, gay - and wholly Indonesian

Indonesian, Australian and Timor Leste artists collaborate

In the aftermath of religious conflict, ethnic difference is becoming more prominent in Ambon

New programs of compulsory religious education for Muslim children in West Sumatra have received little publicity outside that province. Is this a new phase in the Islamisation of Indonesia?

Ring deaths leave Indonesian boxing on the ropes.