Economy

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

A man who left his home to work in a plantation half-way around the world

The 100 year anniversary of Indonesia’s ‘National Awakening’ fails to inspire

A land conflict on the tourist island of Gili Trawangan dates back decades

Ten years after Suharto, the economy is not recovering fast enough

Local writers help combat illiteracy in rural Banten

With no internal wars to fight, Yudhoyono can afford to reform the military

In Kuta, a local surfer has found that it is worthwhile to share waves with tourists.

Managing conservation, tourism and the needs of local communities in Bali Barat National Park

Living with the Lapindo disaster

Along the Opak River in Pundong, near Bantul, Yogyakarta, locals trade their sweat for a pile of sand.

Jakarta’s disabled are striving for a better deal.

Unionists express their disgust at local government’s failure to look after the interests of workers

The passing of the technocrats

An unstoppable flow of mud from an explosion in a gas well in Sidoarjo, East Java, has unleashed a plethora of political issues.

Indonesia’s wealthy partake of a booming spa tourism industry, joining a pan-Asian community of well-to-do consumers of the ‘non-west’

Tourism campaigns in East Kalimantan fall short of provincial middle class aspirations

Working-class Singaporeans travel to Indonesia’s Riau Islands in search of a fantasy built around sex

Organic farming takes root in post-bomb Bali