Politics

What you see is what you get

Our new edition shows how far Indonesia has come, and how much remains to be done

Journalists strike after West Java’s most famous newspaper ‘withdraws’ poem.

Living with the Lapindo disaster

An Australian teacher trainer learns a lesson (or two) in East Java

Jatropha biofuel production in Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara

30 September 1919 – 27 January 2008

Newspaper obituaries, from Sabang to Merauke

A conference in Banda Aceh reveals divergent opinions about what model of Islamic law Aceh should adopt

Arief Budiman reflects on Suharto and his legacy.

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.

Despite being a scene of destruction and heartache, there is a strange beauty in the new landscape created in the wake of the Sidoarjo mud disaster.

Strategic planning for disaster remains a low priority for the central government, despite the lessons learned in the aftermath of the Bali bombings

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

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

Direct elections in South Sulawesi show that a new breed of political godfathers is coming to power in Indonesia’s regions. Parties are increasingly irrelevant, but electoral competition is real.