Cosmopolitan Indonesia
![Image 1 - Affandi Self portrait with pipe](/images/cache/fc677673f2da6618bf69f14f62fe3147_w725.jpg "Affandi, "Self Portrait with pipe", 1977 – Affandi Museum, Yogyakarta")
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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