Fiction & Essays

Professor Suryani and her team are making a difference

Practices such as Imlek masses are a welcome example of tolerance and plurality

A lifelong activist and retired midwife is teaching her peers to stay engaged… and not burden their children

On a recent study trip, journalism student Lisa Favazzo met two people giving back to their communities in extraordinary ways

Irreligious youth are looking for their place in religious Indonesia

Palu after the tsunami

Masykuri Bakri doesn’t fit the stereotype for a moderate Muslim leader

Indonesia’s foremost theatre director, the internationally acclaimed Iswadi Pratama, staged an extraordinary eight productions in 2016

Lontar Modern Indonesia: ‘But that is, after all, the relationship between land and power... Whoever holds power will impose their view.’

Lontar Modern Indonesia: ‘Siapa yang pegang kuasa, akan paksakan pandangannya tentang bagaimana cara mengatur aset alam itu.’

Honouring Indonesian activist Putu Oka Sukanta for humanity

Pare’s English language school grew out of a tutoring job and is now attracting thousands

Kumpulan karya puisi memperingati jasa-jasa Kartini dalam perjuangan kaum wanita Indonesia.

Five poems celebrating Kartini and her contribution to Indonesia's feminist movement.

Almost twenty years after reformasi, journalist and novelist Leila S. Chudori ponders on the successes and failures of this historic period for Indonesia