Society

Name stone resistance

Decolonising knowledge

Dekolonisasi pengetahuan 

Save Sangihe

A new way to write about mining and logging

Cara baru menulis tentang pertambangan dan penebangan kayu

We, the Indigenous Peoples, are never alone.

Kami, Masyarakat Adat, tidak pernah sendiri. 

In following the journey of Diponegoro’s keris from a Dutch museum to Indonesia, I encountered the social life of keris as an intimate part of Javanese life.

With high youth unemployment and the rise of digital media, a career as a content creator is an increasingly popular option among young Indonesians

The intersection of disability and poverty creates layered barriers to financial inclusion

Through decades of shifting political landscapes, Tangerang's Chinese community has preserved their sacred traditions

An essay introducing Ki Purbo Asmoro’s original wayang tale Tamba Tĕka, Lara Lunga (Remedy Shows Up, Malady Gives Up)

Pieter Bastiaan van Steenis’ report on the 1918 influenza pandemic in Java is a rare and detailed account by a colonial health official who experienced its horrors first-hand

An anonymous Javanese text written in response to the flu epidemic of 1918-19, offers its audiences eerily familiar lessons for surviving a pandemic

Featuring translations and analysis of rare texts, including the revival of an early 20th century Javanese wayang play, this edition illustrates the multi-faceted ways in which pandemics affect us and how a conversation between the science of epidemiology and public health, drama and translation are interwoven in interesting and sometimes surprising ways.