Sulawesi

Mining law changes in decentralising Indonesia raises new challenges and opportunities for local communities

The 2009 mining law and the community benefit in Sulawesi

Mining dominates East Luwu GDP but development of agriculture underpins equitable development

Benefits ripple outwards but local government struggles to regulate the process

Improved market chain monitoring and recognition of sociocultural dynamics are important for central mercury control

A mobile school in South Sulawesi offers new horizons to young islanders

Organisations like Wahdah Islamiyah envision an ‘Islamic’ citizenship for Indonesia

To understand the future of Indonesian precipitation, climate scientists are looking into the distant past

Herb Feith Annual Memorial Lecture 2014

Democratic institutions are increasingly burdened by the illicit transactions and collusive practices of politico-business elites

The second round of direct elections for governors and district heads shows that democratisation is allowing powerful families to entrench themselves in local politics

Healthcare in Indonesia suffers from many chronic problems that only healthier politics can cure

A home schooling project in Kendari provides a new kind of early learning experience

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

A small community in Southeast Sulawesi is engaged in an ongoing quest for recognition of its right to live on its ancestral land

Bioprospecting is threatening Bunaken National Park

The Nahdlatul Ulama congress in Makassar arrests the slide away from liberal views but shows the organisation's vulnerability to outside political interference

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

From the Archives

Greg Fealy (ii65: Jan-Mar 2001) interviews the leader of a new, radical and militant sect

Suspected communists who survived the killings of 1965-66 in South Sulawesi spent the next 20 years working for the military in an isolated jungle camp