Tourism

COVID-19 has amplified existing societal fissures and exposed the alarming fragility of the lives of Indonesian transwomen who work as drag performers

A small museum in Java is preserving a storytelling tradition, and the thoughts and feelings behind it

Farmers and would-be farmers in Lombok are fighting a land-rights battle against the tourism industry

Bali’s World Heritage listing has put its rice-farming culture under stress 

An ongoing struggle to control a historic Mosque disrupts a heritage region

Beyond the tourism and real estate frontiers in Bali is a small branch of the global resource frontier.

Local communities resist mining development on Sulawesi’s Bangka Island

See the world and be exploited

Bioprospecting is threatening Bunaken National Park

Asmat bisj-poles gain new meaning in a Papuan refugee protest in Melbourne

Migrants from South Sulawesi have played an important role in manufacturing a Papuan identity

A land conflict on the tourist island of Gili Trawangan dates back decades

In Kuta, a local surfer has found that it is worthwhile to share waves with tourists.

Managing conservation, tourism and the needs of local communities in Bali Barat National Park

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

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

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

Organic farming takes root in post-bomb Bali

Strategic planning for disaster remains a low priority for the central government, despite the lessons learned in the aftermath of the Bali bombings.

Bunaken National Marine Park is promoted as an ideal mix of tourism and conservation, but not all local people agree.