Arts

Evolving performances at Hari Raya celebrations are a window into deeper cultural change

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

Piety and consumption in popular Islam

The arts scene has changed radically since 1998, but some of the old uncertainties remain

Sundanese have a habit of putting each other in their places

A group of Jakarta punks challenges the criminal stigma attached to tattoos

A photo essay about families of the disappeared

Indie designers rework commercial iconography – and the business of clothing production

Fight-choreography in West Java is a source of cultural pride

Local writers help combat illiteracy in rural Banten

The legacy of the Suharto era lingers in school history books

Journalists strike after West Java’s most famous newspaper ‘withdraws’ poem.

A community takes a fresh look at water

Indonesian, Australian and Timor Leste artists collaborate

Quite unknown to the tourists, Balinese youth are creating a dynamic musical identity that refuses to be colonised. EMMA BAULCH joins the death thrashers for an evening of metal.

GLORIA FRYDMAN talks with successful artist Diany Sinung about her favourite subject, other women.

The National Library of Australia now has the most comprehensive collection of Indonesian films available outside of Indonesia. Two films in this collection come from Sumatra.

TOM PLUMMER talks with a graphic artist in Yogyakarta whose work is drawing international praise.