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Book review: Beauty within tragedy

Strong ties

Tradition helps Minangkabau protect the land from foreign investors

Essay: The life of H.W. Emanuels (1916-1966)

More than six decades after being inspired as an undergraduate in Sydney, Ron Witton retraces his Indonesian language teacher's journey back to Suriname

Essay: Under the poetic stars

Makassar International Writers Festival and its ripple effects

Book review: Productive and pious

The faces of young Muslim women in contemporary Indonesia

4c. Strategi penelitian Marx II

Biografi, sejarah dunia dan perubahan sosio-ekologis

4a. Perempuan mencerahkan Karl Marx

Vera Zasulich membela desa adat

Petruk 1920 confronts Petruk 2020

An essay introducing Ki Purbo Asmoro’s original wayang tale Tamba Tĕka, Lara Lunga (Remedy Shows Up, Malady Gives Up)

Reporting on Java’s 1918 influenza pandemic

Pieter Bastiaan van Steenis’ report on the 1918 influenza pandemic in Java is a rare and detailed account by a colonial health official who experienced its horrors first-hand

Beware the disease of influenza

An anonymous Javanese text written in response to the flu epidemic of 1918-19, offers its audiences eerily familiar lessons for surviving a pandemic

Interpreting pandemics through history, text and performance

Featuring translations and analysis of rare texts, including the revival of an early 20th century Javanese wayang play, this edition illustrates the multi-faceted ways in which pandemics affect us and how a conversation between the science of epidemiology and public health, drama and translation are interwoven in interesting and sometimes surprising ways.

Essay: Testing out my Bahasa Indonesia

We need to learn more about each other. If we do, we will find that in many ways we have much in common

Asbestos danger

What can be done to prevent suffering in Indonesia?

Obituary: Stop telling, start listening

Owen Podger’s guide to aid-giving

Essay: What remains of the 1998 tragedy for the post-1998 generation

Hearing about my mother's experiences in May 1998 became a pivotal moment that has shaped my life.

Obit: Bob Muntz, 1947-2024

Memeing the precarity of Indonesian startup workers

Beyond the hype, workers in this booming industry are seeking not only comic relief, but real improvements in their conditions. An Instagram account is helping with both.

Dancing into the elections

The replacement of dangdut with TikTok dances in the 2024 elections heralds a massive demographic shift in Indonesian political campaigning and beyond

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