Economy

Trouble in Paradise
A land conflict on the tourist island of Gili Trawangan dates back decades
Policy drift
Ten years after Suharto, the economy is not recovering fast enough
A world of reading
Local writers help combat illiteracy in rural Banten
The peace dividend
With no internal wars to fight, Yudhoyono can afford to reform the military
€˜Go home, tourist!€™
In Kuta, a local surfer has found that it is worthwhile to share waves with tourists.
Bali'€™s wild side
Managing conservation, tourism and the needs of local communities in Bali Barat National Park
Sand rafts - a photo essay
Along the Opak River in Pundong, near Bantul, Yogyakarta, locals trade their sweat for a pile of sand.
Politics of symbolism
Unionists express their disgust at local government’s failure to look after the interests of workers
Un-natural disaster
An unstoppable flow of mud from an explosion in a gas well in Sidoarjo, East Java, has unleashed a plethora of political issues.
Living like kings
Working-class Singaporeans travel to Indonesia’s Riau Islands in search of a fantasy built around sex
Singapore, not sawit
Tourism campaigns in East Kalimantan fall short of provincial middle class aspirations
Rich, Asian and all-natural
Indonesia’s wealthy partake of a booming spa tourism industry, joining a pan-Asian community of well-to-do consumers of the ‘non-west’
Post-bomb lessons
Strategic planning for disaster remains a low priority for the central government, despite the lessons learned in the aftermath of the Bali bombings
Eco-tourism for whom?
Bunaken National Marine Park is promoted as an ideal mix of tourism and conservation, but not all local people agree
Tourism in question
In our new edition, Inside Indonesia explores different perspectives on tourism