Mar 26, 2019 Last Updated 4:25 AM, Mar 23, 2019

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Un-natural disaster

Un-natural disaster

An unstoppable flow of mud from an explosion in a gas well in Sidoarjo, East Java, has unleashed a plethora of political issues.

Postcards from a wasteland

Postcards from a wasteland

Despite being a scene of destruction and heartache, there is a strange beauty in the new landscape created in the wake of the Sidoarjo mud disaster.

Tourism in question

Tourism in question

In our new edition, Inside Indonesia explores different perspectives on tourism.

Food for the future

Food for the future

Organic farming takes root in post-bomb Bali

Living like kings

Living like kings

Working-class Singaporeans travel to Indonesia’s Riau Islands in search of a fantasy built around sex.

Rich, Asian and all-natural

Rich, Asian and all-natural

Indonesia’s wealthy partake of a booming spa tourism industry, joining a pan-Asian community of well-to-do consumers of the ‘non-west’

Singapore, not sawit

Singapore, not sawit

Tourism campaigns in East Kalimantan fall short of provincial middle class aspirations.

Eight years after 1999

Eight years after 1999

Displaced East Timorese children go hungry in Indonesian West Timor

Sartono Kartodirdjo, 1921-2007

Sartono Kartodirdjo, 1921-2007

Indonesia’s premier historian

Glass ceiling in government

Glass ceiling in government

Women in the Ministry of Finance face significant obstacles to advancement

Making democracy work, Islamically

Making democracy work, Islamically

Indonesia’s Muslim educators support democracy, but grapple with how to make that commitment consistent with Islamic law.

Aa Gym

Aa Gym

The rise, fall, and re-branding of a celebrity preacher

Festival Mata Air

Festival Mata Air

A community takes a fresh look at water

An audacious project

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Inside Indonesia’s founder looks back

We refuse to become victims

We refuse to become victims

Indonesian, Australian and Timor Leste artists collaborate

Starting early

Starting early

New programs of compulsory religious education for Muslim children in West Sumatra have received little publicity outside that province. Is this a new phase in the Islamisation of Indonesia?

Shifting faultlines

Shifting faultlines

In the aftermath of religious conflict, ethnic difference is becoming more prominent in Ambon

Fight for survival

Fight for survival

Ring deaths leave Indonesian boxing on the ropes.

Behind the jamboree

Behind the jamboree

Direct local elections give Jakartans a say in their city’s future

Myth of the effective little NGO

Making idealism work is very hard. NORI ANDRIYANI, with extraordinary honesty, tells why.

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