Dec 19, 2018 Last Updated 10:44 PM, Dec 17, 2018

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Caught between two happinesses

Caught between two happinesses

Young Indonesian lesbians struggle with the pressure to marry

Photo essay: Positive is negative

Photo essay: Positive is negative

HIV/AIDS is posing an ever greater threat to the health and welfare of people in the highlands of Papua

Lives endangered

Reckinger Lemaire

Three stories of people with HIV/AIDS in the central highlands of Papua show that both the government and community have a long way to go in confronting this major epidemic

More than a fatal attraction

More than a fatal attraction

Outsiders see arak consumption as a highly dangerous activity, but arak plays an important role in Balinese society

Big prison, little prison

Big prison, little prison

Stories from Papua’s political prisoners show life at the edge of freedom

On the struggle for press freedom

On the struggle for press freedom

Former political prisoner Eko Maryadi speaks to Nikki Edwards about his incarceration during the New Order

Life and death in immigration detention

Life and death in immigration detention

Detained asylum seekers face massive hurdles in accessing rights and protection

A mysterious illness

A mysterious illness

Panas dalam can kill, but it can also be cured by a phone call

Review: Power, change, and gender relations in rural Java

Review: Power, change, and gender relations in rural Java

Tickamyer and Kusujiarti’s new book is essential reading

Land of ghosts

Bauzi women in a health class for new and expectant mothers Bobby Anderson

Papua’s rural lowlands are being transformed by an encroaching global economy, but what happens to the people there is an open question

Legislating against the supernatural

Sorcery and black magic remain serious concerns for many Indonesians AyAres151 at flickr.com

Indonesia’s parliament is cracking down on sorcery

Review: When perpetrators speak

Anwar Congo (right) being made up Final Cut For Real

Joshua Oppenheimer’s groundbreaking new film raises disturbing questions about why perpetrators of the 1965-66 mass killings still enjoy impunity for their actions

An interview with Joshua Oppenheimer

Anwar Congo (right) being made up, Final Cut for Real

The filmmaker explains that The Act of Killing exposes the imagination of terror

Review: An act of manipulation?

Credit: Final Cut for Real

Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing is a bold, disturbing and ultimately unsatisfactory exploration of the place of violence in modern Indonesia

Art and the city

Art and the city

Indonesian artists are using new media to rethink urban space

Soft diplomacy in heavy metal

Soft diplomacy in heavy metal

Indonesia’s liberal art scene attracts adventurous Australian artists

Herstory in art

Herstory in art

Titarubi’s art challenges masculinity in Indonesian visual arts and beyond

Review: The making of an Indonesian human rights lawyer

Review: The making of an Indonesian human rights lawyer

Dan Lev explains how an outsider became a national hero

What gives rise to moral outrage?

What gives rise to moral outrage?

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

Teaching remote Indonesia

Teaching remote Indonesia

A new program sends Indonesia’s best and brightest graduates to teach children in its poorest villages

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