Arts

Maximum impact
The production and strategic planning behind films looking to effect social change in Indonesia is slowly reaching a new level of sophistication
Transformasi pendidikan film
Mempromosikan kesetaraan gender dan inklusi sosial dalam pendidikan film akan membentuk masa depan industri film Indonesia yang lebih baik
Screen politics
The production of visual content has exploded in recent years. Increasingly this medium is being used in innovative ways to tell stories and encourage action on political and social issues
Review: 25 years of music activism
For two decades Bali-based rock band Navicula’s mission has been to tackle some of the country’s biggest social and environmental ills
Ki Poedijono (1940-2021)
Obituary of Ki Poedijono: dhalang (puppeteer), musician, dancer and gamelan teacher
Review: The Planet, A Lament
Garin Nugroho’s major theatrical work inadvertently reveals the challenges in representing race in cross-cultural collaboration
Dancing for diversity
The mixed-race identity of Indonesian-Australian cultural performers
Exhibited as losers
A new artwork holds up a mirror to physical anthropology and its baseless racial categorisations
Seni pertunjukan dan pandemi
Dalam edisi ini, penulis-penulis kami merinci dampak pandemi yang menghancurkan pada sektor seni pertunjukan Indonesia, tetapi juga semangat ketahanan yang mendorong para seniman ini untuk terus maju.
Wayangan dalam bayang-bayang COVID-19
Seniman dan penonton pertunjukan wayang kulit purwa di Jakarta beradaptasi menghadapi kesulitan di tengah pandemi COVID-19
Teater di masa COVID 19
Keterbatasan telah lama menentukan teater modern Indonesia, sehingga pandemi tidak dapat menghentikan kemajuan
Essay: Don’t forget to wash up
Locked out of live theatre, Dina spent time pondering the meaning of physical space, enjoying rest time and helping others stay safe
Theatre in the time of COVID 19
Limitations have long defined Indonesia’s modern theatre, so the pandemic could not stop progress
‘We take care of our own’
COVID-19 has amplified existing societal fissures and exposed the alarming fragility of the lives of Indonesian transwomen who work as drag performers