Fiction & Essays

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

A Hazara fleeing persecution has dedicated her life in Indonesia to helping her fellow refugees in Bogor

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

Many older readers of Inside Indonesia will remember John Barnard, who died earlier this year in Melbourne after a brief illness. John, who worked as a technician in the science laboratory at Monash University, was a regular attendee at the regular Centre for Southeast Asian Studies seminars where he loved to meet up with old friends and make new ones. A shy retiring person and a bachelor all his life, visiting Indonesia was always a significant annual event for him as his travel diary clearly shows. 

Pat Walsh's book of short stories and poems takes us through a year of intimate encounters with Jakarta

Lontar Modern Indonesian Fiction Series

Lontar Modern Indonesia Fiction Series