Oct 28, 2021 Last Updated 10:22 AM, Oct 21, 2021

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Cyber mercenaries vs the KPK

Map of online news covering the ‘KPK is a Taliban hotbed’ story, showing how mainstream media amplified the cyber troop campaign to garner public support for the KPK Law revision / Drone Emprit

Cyber troops spread disinformation to gain public support for the KPK Law revision

Pertarungan untuk penghapusan kekerasan seksual

‘Lindungi Kami dari Kekerasan Seksual. Sahkan RUU PKS’ / ANTARA FOTO/Hafidz Mubarak A

Penundaan pengesahaan Rancangan Undang-Undang Penghapusan Kekerasan Seksual (RUU PKS) berbarengan dengan peningkatan kekerasan terhadap perempuan

The fight to outlaw sexual violence in Indonesia

'Protect us from sexual violence. Pass the Sexual Violence Bill' / ANTARA FOTO/Hafidz Mubarak A

Delays to the Sexual Violence Bill have coincided with an increase in violence against women

A 150-year old obstacle to land rights

Protestors calling for land reform, Jakarta, September 2019 / Dhemas Reviyanto / ANTARA FOTO

The Dutch colonialists adopted the concept of domein verklaring (domain declaration) to claim control over a large part of Indonesia’s land. This act lives on in modern-day Indonesia, causing conflict and poverty.

Ramadan in the time of COVID-19

Muhammadiyah’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic combines Salafi legal reasoning with medical pragmatism

Counterfeit fashion is hot property

A vendor sells counterfeit shoes based on designs from Nike and Adidas. Counterfeit footwear is among the most popular items amongst Gen Z Shoppers / Alice Sinclair

Indonesian youth are buying more fake fashion despite some awareness of its harmful impacts

A whistleblowing culture

'The Community Can Play a Role In Eradicating Corruption' / http://indonesiabaik.id

The assumption of the importance of financial reward has held back work to eradicate corruption in Indonesia

Witnessing shame and punishment

This image of a public caning in Aceh featured in news outlets around the world: Image by Heri Juanda/AP

Shared images of Syariah punishment are a key strategy of social control in Aceh

Moral politics of nationhood

The Movement of Indonesian Council Edict Supporters (GNPF MUI) stage a massive rally in protest of former Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama’s allegedly blasphemous remarks in Jakarta on 4 Nov. 2016. (Antara/Akbar Nugroho Gumay)

Constructions of political, sexual and religious others in contemporary Indonesia

Reframing the demon

‘Throwing the Effigy into the Mud Lake’ / Lutfi Amiruddin

Lapindo mudflow victims are drawing on ritual to battle their politically untouchable oppressor

Drugs and drug policy

Anti-drugs support. Healthy millennials without drugs 2019 / ANTARA FOTO/Asep Fathulrahman

Drug use in Indonesia has a long history

Crystal meth users in Indonesia

Officials inspect a shipment of sabu intercepted at Lampung airport on its way to Makassar/ ANTARA FOTO Hendra Nurdiyansyah

Not all users of sabu-sabu are dependant on it, but their experiences are ignored by the law

Drugs and the death penalty

Reporters scramble to get a picture at the Wirogunan Penitentiary [TEMPO/Pius Erlangga]

Indonesia’s ill-informed war on drugs endangers and ends lives rather than saving them

Criminal patients

A National Narcotics Board poster displaying messaging from The International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking 2014 in Indonesia / Lex Kuiper

People who use drugs occupy an ambiguous position in Indonesian government rhetoric

Populism versus justice

Humphrey Ejike Jefferson’s body awaiting cremation the morning after his execution / LBH Masyarkat

Indonesia’s legal system is too flawed to sentence people to death

Cannabis, for starters

LGN activists at the Global Marijuana March in the city of Makassar, 2015 / Asdal (LGN Makassar)

The growing support for cannabis decriminalisation in Indonesia could both help and hinder broader drug reform

Timotius and Freeport

Timotius Kambu / Tempo

Elite politics and Freeport Indonesia’s non-compliance continue to deny Timotius Kambu his owed wages

An inadvertent terrorist

Source / Samuel Zeller on Unsplash

One man’s humdrum pathway into terrorism demonstrates the need for extra care in prisons and de-radicalisation programs

Review: Ricklefs on Islamisation

M.Timur/ Flickr Creative Commons

No justice at home or abroad

Two of the boys are back in their home village in Rote, Timor, after being released from Australian prison / Antje Mißbach

Indonesia’s children wrongly imprisoned in Australia still haven’t been compensated

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