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From guided democracy to guided science?

Incapable elites are guiding Indonesia’s scientists off course

Culture as technology

Students are taught to understand the everyday impact of knowledge and technology in the midst of Indonesia’s infrastructure boom

Politik pengetahuan pascareformasi

Dari demokrasi terpimpin ke sains terpimpin?

Demokrasi feodal Indonesia

Foreign research permit reforms

Changes to the role of Indonesian counterparts risks being counterproductive

Reformasi izin penelitian asing

Risiko kontraproduktif perubahan peran mitra Indonesia

Knowledge production in the age of neoliberal authoritarianism

Government influence on Indonesian academia sees the needs of the public neglected in favour of the economic and political elite

The politics of knowledge after reformasi

Photo essay: Minangkabau pig hunting

Review: Kartini's letters in translation

Now published in both English and Indonesian translation, the annotated collection will provide a better understanding of this Indonesian heroine

‘Tricked by a hoax’

Truth and irrational violence in West Papua

Photo essay: Welcoming Ramadan in Yogyakarta

In the month before the fasting period, Javanese Muslims perform a diversity of sacred rituals

Review: Corruption and care in the age of good governance

The generation that breaks the silence

The third generation since the Revolution inherited trauma and stigma. Now they are speaking out.

Generasi yang memecah kesunyian

Generasi ketiga paska Revolusi, adalah generasi yang diwarisi trauma dan stigma. Kini mereka menolak pengingkaran yang dilakukan negara dan generasi sebelumnya.

Interview: Bonnie Triyana on history as a movement

A Moluccan soldier and his daughter

The story of a senior officer in the Royal Dutch East Indies Army (KNIL), and of his oldest daughter, give voice to Moluccan experiences in colonial history

Dutch terror camps in Bali

During the Indonesian war of independence the Dutch army set up prison camps across Bali, where torture and murder were common. It failed to break the Balinese resistance

Book review: 'Merdeka'

Henk Schulte Nordholt and Harry Poeze's new book turns attention to the battle for Indonesian independence and precarious rise of the Republic

Review essay: Constructing Indonesian girlhood on film

Two decades after the cultural shift opened up by Reformasi, hope looks very different in Indonesian cinema

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