Edition 115: Jan-Mar 2014 - Inside Indonesia: The peoples and cultures of Indonesia

Sep 26, 2022 Last Updated 2:22 AM, Sep 25, 2022

Cosmopolitan Indonesia

Image 1 - Affandi Self portrait with pipe

Cosmopolitanism is a magnificent ideal for a world torn by divisions and it exists in Indonesia in some surprising places. But how deep does and can it go? Gerry van Klinken

Diaspora power

Abused maids are not the only Indonesians overseas as success stories from the Indonesia Diaspora Congress show

Online cosmopolitan

An interview with Enrico Aditjondro

Impossible ideal?

Cosmopolitanism is a dirty word in rural West Java, where creativity and new words are needed to reopen dialogue.

Subaltern cosmopolitans

Riau Islanders prove you don’t have to be rich, or even mobile, to be a citizen of the world

Floating World

See the world and be exploited

Defining the Nation?

Indonesia at the Venice Biennale, 2013

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