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Unity in diversity?

Ethnicity and the nation

Harrowing and healing

The Healing of Bali, a documentary produced and directed by John Darling, (video, 50 minutes), Taman Sari Productions, 2003.

Dangdut trendy

Is it techno? Is it traditional? No, it’s techno hybrid ethnic house music

Cops and kids

Indonesian police reveal their soft spot

Hidden treasures

Preserving the literary past

An urban tale

Strange companions in Jakarta's Jalan Jaksa

Return of the sultans

After the New Order, pomp and ceremony is returning to dusty palaces all over Indonesia

Land, church and state

Forestry business packaged in ecological concerns in Flores

Solidarity in suffering

Victims of the May 1998 riots seek justice and healing

Ethnic stereotyping by politicians

Ethnic stereotyping by local politicians in Lombok fails to please all

Reviving Malayness

Searching for a new dominant ethnic identity

A fair go for all

Taking a legal approach to fighting discrimination

Blood or money?

Ethnicity now plays a role in local politics in South Sumatra but money still rules

How to be Chinese

Ethnic Chinese experience a ‘reawakening’ of their Chinese identity

Remembering today

Ien Ang returns to Indonesia and her Chinese roots

A history of diversity

Ethnic relations in West Kalimantan are marked with blood

Singing for life

Music is still a potent source of cultural resistance in West Papua

Divide and who rules?

Ethnic nationalism under siege in West Papua

Trial by fire

Taking the law into your own hands is now commonplace in urban areas in Indonesia

Maids face death penalty

Five Indonesian domestic workers face possible death sentences in Singapore

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