Politics

Indonesian artists are using new media to rethink urban space

Indonesia’s liberal art scene attracts adventurous Australian artists

Rather than being merely the result of religious extremism, recent cases of moral outrage point to a wide range of current political and social problems

Perfectly coiffed hair and rose-pink cheeks underpin Polri’s latest policing tactic

What do you get when you cross Sarah Palin and an Islamic polygamist? Meet Rhoma Irama – Indonesia’s king of dangdut

Highland communities in Papua are demanding access to services, but there is a limit to what can be offered in the most remote settlements

There are signs that Indonesia may move towards abolition of the death penalty

As infectious diseases spread, strategic governance becomes ever more important

Rebuilding trust in doctors will be an important part of Aceh’s post-conflict recovery

Regional governments around Indonesia are devising new and ambitious free healthcare schemes for their electorates, but to what end?

Healthcare in Indonesia suffers from many chronic problems that only healthier politics can cure

Essays, reflections and poetry on East Timor, 1999-2010

The labour movement successfully adopted new tactics in their campaign for social security reform

Pentecostalism and its expressive religiosity resonates with a new generation of Christians

People in rural Papua are more interested in basic services than grand political struggles

Asylum seekers from the Middle East and troubled parts of Asia can languish for years in difficult circumstances in Indonesia

A national strike shows that workers are once again a significant force

Indonesian television advertisements are constructing images of Indonesia by appropriating well-known nationalist themes

Jeffrey Winters’ Oligarchy is an epic work of comparative political insight but has little that is new to add to the study of Indonesia’s politics

Indonesia is Facebooking, Twittering and blogging, but what effect is this having on campaigns for social justice?

Indonesia is online. The number of Indonesians using the internet increased from two million in 2000 to over 55 million in 2012, the fourth largest number of internet users in Asia (after China, India and Japan).