Feb 24, 2019 Last Updated 4:13 AM, Feb 20, 2019

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Gender Rights

Remembering the gang rapes of May 1998

The stories of Seno Gumira Ajidarma have helped to counter the denial of a national trauma

Review: Four perspectives on Hanung Bramantyo’s Kartini

Hanung Bramantyo's 'Kartini' (featuring Dian Sastrowardoyo as lead) touches on themes still relevant today. (Legacy Pictures)

Reviewing the history behind and themes in Hanung Bramantyo's Kartini

Indonesia’s woman to watch

Yenny Wahid readjusts her headscarf fabric.

Yenny Wahid is the new face of moderate Islam

A dispensable threat

Information and Communication Ministry ordered instant messaging applications including LINE, to remove emoticons depicting same-sex intimacy

LGBT rights and recognition have been under attack in the Indonesian media, for various reasons

‘No more money for our needles’

Preparing the injection - Sari Damar Ratri

HIV prevention programs lack financial support, with serious consequences

Review: Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-66

Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-66 - Routledge

Pohlman’s study provides sensitive and powerful testimony of the impact of this violence on women and girls

The Sultan of development?

Return to the rules of the Palace” on a busy street in Yogyakarta - Cally Colbron

Succession within the Sultanate of Yogyakarta decides who will own vast tracts of land

Enduring impunity

The reality for women survivors of conflict-related violence in Indonesia does not match the rhetoric

Review: The Crocodile Hole

Saskia Wieringa’s latest novel brings to life a dark period in Indonesia’s past

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

Online networking and minority rights

Online networking and minority rights

LGBT communities use social media to organise despite threats of violence

‘You’re crazy. Don’t make up things!’

‘You’re crazy. Don’t make up things!’

Celebrity gossip shows denigrate homosexuality, but at least they talk about it

Repairing the damage

Repairing the damage

Safe havens and abuser counselling helping to reduce domestic violence cases in East Nusa Tenggara

The winds of change

The winds of change

Men in Pekanbaru and Makassar are slowly changing their minds about domestic violence

Combating domestic violence

Combating domestic violence

Government and the NGO sector are working to change attitudes towards violence against women

A terrible legacy

A terrible legacy

Indonesian doctors have been persecuted for providing safe abortions for almost a century

The right to choose

The right to choose

Indonesian activists keep fighting to have abortion decriminalised

Not just a piece of paper

Not just a piece of paper

The state’s requirements for marriage registration disadvantage poor rural women

Modelling syariah in Aceh

Modelling syariah in Aceh

A conference in Banda Aceh reveals divergent opinions about what model of Islamic law Aceh should adopt

This woman wants polygamy

This woman wants polygamy

But her husband won’t come to the party.

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An inadvertent terrorist

Feb 19, 2019 - CAMERON SUMPTER & YUSLIKHA K WARDHANI

Source / Samuel Zeller on Unsplash

One man’s humdrum pathway into terrorism demonstrates the need for extra care in prisons and de-radicalisation programs

A kinder, more gentle FPI?

Feb 06, 2019 - MARK WOODWARD

Lubis described Yogya as a city beset by sin: alcohol, narcotics, free sex, prostitution, pornography and LGBT / Mark Woodward

The historically hardline defenders of Islam plan to enter the political mainstream by softening their rhetoric and abandoning hate speech

Review: Ricklefs on Islamisation

Feb 01, 2019 - RON WITTON

M.Timur/ Flickr Creative Commons

Reclaiming Indonesian citizenship

Jan 30, 2019 - DIEGO GARCIA RODRIGUEZ

Diega Garcia Rodriguez/ The pengibar bendera (flag raisers) group after hoisting the flag

A ‘waria’ version of the traditional flag ceremony celebrates both nationhood and diversity

Photo essay: A protest for fair land reform

Jan 20, 2019 - FRANS ARI PRASETYO

Source/ Frans Ari Prasetyo

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