Human Rights

Indonesia’s proposed sexual violence elimination law will help protect women in the workplace

Despite increasingly worrying levels of harassment and surveillance, sexual diversity and sexual empowerment are finding spaces in Indonesia

Indonesian feminists are capitalising on #MeToo, and using social media to facilitate offline action

Hip-hop should be combating, not reinforcing, the problem of sexual violence in West Papua

Hip-hop seharusnya menjadi alat untuk memerangi kasus kekerasan seksual di Papua, bukannya malah mendukung lahirnya kasus-kasus serupa

Unchecked hate speech against Indonesia’s LGBT community is having a devastating effect

Indonesia’s national image excludes many, in clear contradiction with its laws and principles

Constructions of political, sexual and religious others in contemporary Indonesia

Police and interfaith activists are helping defuse tension and safeguard minority expression

The ‘communist stigma’ is being used as a tool in the courtroom to attack human and environmental rights

Sexual minorities increasingly feel left out of Indonesia’s democratisation processes

Despite stated goodwill by authorities, intolerance towards minority groups is growing in Bandung

1965 collaborators and victims living side by side silently negotiate between past and present

Living in the midst of uncertainty

Demographers and genocide scholars at Michigan State University's Asian Studies Centre trace population numbers across East Java at the time of the 1965-66 killings

The plight of Papua’s internally displaced persons is not being recognised by the Indonesian government

Elite politics and Freeport Indonesia’s non-compliance continue to deny Timotius Kambu his owed wages

Satirical candidates that once seemed refreshing have slipped into tired obscenity