Arts

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.

From Sajak-sajak cinta dari balik terali (Love poems from behind bars) by Bambang Isti Nugroho, published by Penerbit Widya Mandala, Yogyakarta, 1994.

DAVID HILL and KRISHNA SEN scour the music shops. They find that foreign music is now as Indonesian as batik. From Hindi film to 'Indie' punk rock, foreign musical genres are being indigenised, and imbued with Indonesian political meaning.

Remember the election last May? MAS SUJOKO was there and listened in to the people's vote, recorded on walls all over Yogyakarta.

TOM PLUMMER speaks with Moelyono, an artist engaged with farmers threatened by a large dam.

Punk rockers turn to Yogya craftsmen for ‘guitar weapons’.

Challenge to political parody on Indonesian television.

Review: Tarian bumi is the story of four generations of Balinese women

A new novel explores the ambiguous role of the outlaw in today's Indonesia

He was a wood carver, musician, and mover and shaker for the arts on Biak

Contemporary art in Papua is about new and contested identities