Aug 20, 2019 Last Updated 5:27 AM, Aug 7, 2019

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A storm in a bank vault

A storm in a bank vault

The much publicised ‘Bank Century’ case is unlikely to do any lasting damage to SBY

Learning to lead

Learning to lead

Against the odds, Indonesian domestic workers have achieved real change in Hong Kong

Leaving Indonesia

Leaving Indonesia

As this edition shows, the choices faced by those who leave Indonesia for work are anything but simple

Organising for migrant worker rights

Organising for migrant worker rights

Non-governmental organisations continue to fill the gap in the absence of viable alternatives

Oppressed and they know it

Oppressed and they know it

Indonesian fishers in Taiwan are beginning to fight back

Token gestures

Token gestures

Despite recent government negotiations, Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia remain disempowered

American dreams

American dreams

Undocumented Indonesian migrant labourers - known locally as kuli dollar - work long hours in difficult conditions in search of prosperity in Philadelphia

A matter of luck

A matter of luck

Migrant domestic workers aspire to more than their home communities can offer and are willing to take risks to change their lives

Passports optional

Passports optional

Indonesian migrant workers without visas - or sometimes even passports - rely on the help of middlemen to get past immigration checkpoints into East Malaysia

Costly inducements

Costly inducements

Pocket money given to intending migrant domestic workers comes at a price

Supporting mothers-to-be

Supporting mothers-to-be

Community facilitators improve maternal and child health in Lombok

Expectant fathers

Expectant fathers

Men should be more involved in maternal and newborn health care

Doctors in training

Doctors in training

Better assessment could provide the answer to problems caused by the rapid expansion of places available in Indonesian public medical schools

Charting Indonesia's health

Charting Indonesia's health

Systematic research paves the way for better strategies to improve health outcomes

Driving under the New Order

Driving under the New Order

The tumultuous events of 1965 thwarted Liong Tjie Tjong’s writing aspirations

Celebrating community

Celebrating community

A temple procession brings Chinese culture to life in Jakarta’s streets

Marketing the Chinese face of Islam

Marketing the Chinese face of Islam

Chinese Muslim preachers are popular, but they don’t always promote greater pluralism

I'm still here

I'm still here

Forty-five years later, survivors are telling their stories about their suffering in detention

Locating culture in the church

Locating culture in the church

Minahasan Christians reinterpret their cultural history and identity through religion

The addiction cycle

The addiction cycle

Photo-essay: Drug users in Jakarta are trapped in a deadly equation

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Competing Papuan identities

Aug 07, 2019 - PETRUS K FARNEUBUN

Jayapura, West Papua / Alex Drainville @Flickr Creative Commons

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Alternative tourism in Bali

Jul 22, 2019 - HANNAH SUTTON

Student volunteers and the local community collected rubbish and turned it into an ogoh-ogoh for local Balinese festivities. Source/ Sea Communities

Community programs in northern Bali are aiming to avoid negative impacts of tourism so evident in the south

Untreated trauma in Nduga

Jul 01, 2019 - HIPOLITUS YOLISANDRY RINGGI WANGGE

A teacher formerly posted in Nduga, holds her infant while instructing the children in the emergency school / Sorang Saragih

The plight of Papua’s internally displaced persons is not being recognised by the Indonesian government

The waste emergency

Jun 11, 2019 - ROLF HAJEK

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Government, producers and the public must all cooperate to tackle Indonesia’s waste problems

Bogus redemption

Jun 02, 2019 - MUHTAR HABIBI

Charlie Hartanto / Flickr

Mudik forms a bogus redemption for many precarious workers amid a lack of decent jobs in both rural and urban areas

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