Jun 24, 2019 Last Updated 4:30 AM, Jun 18, 2019

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Fisheries

The Go-Jek effect

Go-Jek’s green helmets are now a fixture on Indonesia’s streets

Has this phenomenally successful app-based transport service improved the lives of the motorcycle workers it employs?

Mining paradise

Mining paradise

Local communities resist mining development on Sulawesi’s Bangka Island

Catch of the day

Catch of the day

Ensuring food security in fisheries and aquaculture is an important challenge for the Indonesian government

High stakes

High stakes

ASRIANA KEBON speaks to Indonesian underage minors who were returned to Indonesia following age determination hearings in Darwin

Big business, big damage

Big business, big damage

Bioprospecting is threatening Bunaken National Park

Oppressed and they know it

Oppressed and they know it

Indonesian fishers in Taiwan are beginning to fight back

Eco-tourism for whom?

Eco-tourism for whom?

Bunaken National Marine Park is promoted as an ideal mix of tourism and conservation, but not all local people agree.

Gone fishing

AHMAD SOFIAN explores the lives of young people on hundreds of isolated fishing platforms in the Malacca Straits

Permeable border

Indonesian fishermen whose traditional fishing grounds are in Australian waters may have a Mabo-style claim, says CAMPBELL WATSON.

Plundering the Sea

Regulating trawling companies is difficult when the navy is in business with them

Losing the battle

Owners of customary marine tenure are fighting for their livelihoods

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Review: Flowers from Universe

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Consort seated at spinning wheel, c.1910. Reproduced in CM Pleyte, De Inlandsche nijverheid in West-Java als social-ethnologisch verschijnsel. Vol. 2, 1911. Batavia: Javasche Boekhandel en Drukkerij.

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