Human Rights

West Papua and Black Lives Matter
A movement seeking justice, healing, and freedom for Black people has become a powerful rallying call for Indigenous West Papuans
An imagined threat
Atheists are treated with suspicion in a religious society, but they represent an opportunity
Meet, pray, love
Religious belief and sexual identity collide often for an atheist meeting up with gay Muslims
Memotret seksualitas di Indonesia
Di tengah meningkatnya pelecehan dan pengawasan seksualitas, keragaman seksual dan pemberdayaan seksual menemukan ruangnya di Indonesia
Sexualities in Indonesia
Despite increasingly worrying levels of harassment and surveillance, sexual diversity and sexual empowerment are finding spaces in Indonesia
#MeToo Indonesia
Indonesian feminists are capitalising on #MeToo, and using social media to facilitate offline action
Hip-hop: a missed opportunity
Hip-hop should be combating, not reinforcing, the problem of sexual violence in West Papua
Hip-hop: peluang yang terlewatkan
Hip-hop seharusnya menjadi alat untuk memerangi kasus kekerasan seksual di Papua, bukannya malah mendukung lahirnya kasus-kasus serupa
Mobilising fear
Unchecked hate speech against Indonesia’s LGBT community is having a devastating effect
Fearing the queer
Indonesia’s national image excludes many, in clear contradiction with its laws and principles
Criminalising justice
The ‘communist stigma’ is being used as a tool in the courtroom to attack human and environmental rights
Reformasi’s broken promises
Sexual minorities increasingly feel left out of Indonesia’s democratisation processes
Bandung, city of human rights?
Despite stated goodwill by authorities, intolerance towards minority groups is growing in Bandung
A complex relationship
1965 collaborators and victims living side by side silently negotiate between past and present