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Cultural heritage: The politics of pictures of Indonesia

Kaibon Palace in Banten Lama - Credit: Tine Suartina, Courtesy of LIPI (Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia)

When visitors take pictures of Indonesia, they tend to photograph Indonesia’s cultural heritage. These pictures share certain qualities. They seem harmonious and to be of activities or places that have remained the same for generations or centuries. They also often exclude people or represent them as bound by history and relics of a past era

Borobudur and its surroundings as seen from local settlement - Credit: Dedi Supriadi Adhuri

A local communities’ perspective

Majapahit bricks excavated by a Traditional Brick Maker - Credit: Tod Jones

The battles for the future of an archaeological landscape

Great Mosque of Banten - Credit: Tod Jones

An ongoing struggle to control a historic Mosque disrupts a heritage region

Mural in Kampoeng Taman - Credit: Michael Romanos

Yogyakarta’s little internet community, Taman Sari

Archeology and public participation in Indonesian heritage management

Batik Showroom with specially dressed Parkir - Credit: Tod Jones

How UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage program transformed the batik neighbourhood of Laweyan

Danau Beratan, Bali (2007) - Credit: Leyla Stevens

Bali’s World Heritage listing has put its rice-farming culture under stress

Stacks of Changsha bowls in-situ, 1999 - Credit: Michael Flecker

What next for Indonesia’s underwater cultural heritage?

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

Oct 08, 2019 - JOOST COTE

Essay: Letter from Jakarta

Sep 29, 2019 - ABDUL SAMAD HAIDARI

Refugees protest in Makassar, February 2018 / Ali Froghi

Living in the midst of uncertainty

Mapping the 1965-66 killings in East Java

Sep 26, 2019 - SIDDHARTH CHANDRA

In the first of a series of articles we present recent work by demographers and genocide scholars at Michigan State University's Asian Studies Centre on the 1965-1966 killings. Their analysis takes...

Challenging syariah

Sep 16, 2019 - BALAWYN JONES

A woman gazes at the camera as the world moves around her / Ghiffar Ridhwan on Unsplash

The media ignores women’s crucial role in the formation of regional laws in Aceh

Competing Papuan identities

Aug 07, 2019 - PETRUS K FARNEUBUN

Jayapura, West Papua / Alex Drainville @Flickr Creative Commons

A battle is looming between an emboldened pro-independence movement and Papuans who are pro-Indonesia

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Cultural heritage: The politics of pictures of Indonesia

The hidden story of Borobudur

A local communities’ perspective

The political economy of cultural heritage in Trowulan

The battles for the future of an archaeological landscape

Religious conflict and heritage management in Banten Lama