Politics

Ethnicity now plays a role in local politics in South Sumatra but money still rules
Ethnic Chinese experience a ‘reawakening’ of their Chinese identity
Ien Ang returns to Indonesia and her Chinese roots
Ethnic relations in West Kalimantan are marked with blood
Music is still a potent source of cultural resistance in West Papua
Five Indonesian domestic workers face possible death sentences in Singapore
Scholarly research and political reality meet in a Dutch inquiry into Papua
140,000 progressive Muslim volunteers monitored Indonesia’s April elections
A Christian candidate for a Muslim party in North Maluku
Diverse responses to proponents of Islamic law indicate democracy is healthy in South Sulawesi
Protest poetry lives on in post-Suharto Indonesia
Teaching kids is about the little things
Money politics still reigns supreme
Australian university students lend a helping hand
Indonesia’s decentralisation law is causing headaches in Dusun Belido
The elections show that Indonesian workers are not yet a major political presence
The long-running struggle for self-determination continues in Aceh
Munir’s death robbed Indonesia not only of a unique intellectual and activist, but of one of its brightest hopes for the future