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Boosting youth entrepreneurship in creative industries

Directory of creative people, communities, companies and institutions, in directory.indonesiakreatif.net - indonesiakreatif.net

Campaigns to promote creative industries promise new avenues of entrepreneurship for creative youth, but real career options remain uncertain

Would I like to be a farmer?

Working in a rice mill, South Sulawesi - Charina Chazali

Rural youth in rice-growing villages explain their doubts and aspirations about a future in agriculture

Making their way

Youth in Indonesia are facing uncertain school-to-work transition - Remco van Loenen

Indonesia needs to create better pathways from school to work

Negotiating access

Companies’ age-based hiring criteria for fresh graduates narrow young men’s opportunities to access entry-level jobs and traineeships in the steel industries - Suzanne Naafs

Entering a competitive work environment, young men in Cilegon find their ambitions for employment hampered

Underemployed ambitions

A team of volunteers waiting at a health centre for work - Schut

Struggling in their transition from education to work, educated young people in rural Flores are often both dependent on and critical of local social support networks

Aspiring to become a civil servant

Building on his passion for books, this young man engages in irregular work at a community learning centre - Wenty Minza

Trying to secure a government job, educated youth in Pontianak are rethinking the meaning of work and middle class success

Youth employment prospects and aspirations

Young shopping mall workers on a lunch break near Blok M, South Jakarta - Remco van Loenen

Young Indonesians display considerable resourcefulness in coping with difficult pathways into work, but more comprehensive policies are needed to improve their job prospects

A woman’s place

Working parents in Jakarta head off in the morning to take the kids to school and go to work - Mita Pahlevi

Educated urban youth continue to express gendered work–family expectations

Film review: Tanah Mama

A new documentary about a Papuan woman’s daily struggle to survive opens debate on the grave issues affecting her society

Where to now for the MDGs in Indonesia?

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The Millennium Development Goals addressed the basic development needs of Indonesia, but tackling poverty now requires a more complex strategy

A more efficient approach to social welfare?

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Jokowi’s fresh approach to social welfare and development will not be without its challenges

Disability data and the development agenda in Indonesia

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Indonesia needs stronger data to better include people with disabilities in the post-MDG era

Keeping women and babies healthy within an unequal system

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Problems of unequal access explain differences in Indonesia’s achievement of child mortality and maternal mortality targets

Quantity but not quality

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Indonesia is on track to achieve universal primary education, but questions remain about the quality of education

Politics from below

Picture of Prabowo on a car - Vembri Waluyas

Street vendors have organised successfully at the local level, but effective national organisation has proved more elusive

Film review: Bitter Honey

Film review: Bitter Honey

Robert Lemelson’s latest documentary film takes his audience inside the lives of the women, men and children living in polygamous families in Bali

Film review: Daniel Ziv’s acclaimed 'Jalanan'

Film review: Daniel Ziv’s acclaimed 'Jalanan'

A film that takes the viewer deep into the lives of three people living on Jakarta's margins

Back with a vengeance

Indonesian migrant workers hone their activist sensibilities at a protest in Hong Kong - istolethetv at flickr.com

Former migrant workers are finding new empowerment in the bureaucratic jungle of legal aid

The paradox of virtual youth politics

A user-generated computer game developed by Jokowi’s team asks supporters to join Jokowi-Jusuf Kalla on impromptu visits - Generasi Optimis

Social media promotes political engagement among youth, but at the expense of accurate information and real-world political effects

KITLV Reading Room gone, collection remains

The Reading Room enabled interactions between scholars - Andy Fuller

The Institute will continue to operate without its famous reading room

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