Society

Orang-orang di Rengat dan arsip-arsip di Belanda, kedua-duanya tahu adanya pembantaian di bulan Januari 1949. Lalu, mengapa masyarakat umum Belanda tidak tahu itu?

The people of Rengat, the Dutch archives and Dutch authorities have always known about the massacre of January 1949. Why then is the Dutch public not aware?  

Pasukan payung Belanda membunuhratusan, bahkan mungkin ribuan orang di Rengat, sebuah kota Sumatra, pada masa Revolusi Nasional Indonesia, tapi kelihatannya orang-orang di luar Rengat tidak tahu itu. 

Dutch paratroopers massacred hundreds, perhaps thousands, in a Sumatran town during the Indonesian Revolution, yet nobody outside Rengat seems to know.

A look into Indonesian migrant women, identity, and cultural performances. 

Benedict Anderson’s memoir showcases a broad-minded approach to the world and Indonesia

Yogyakartan Salafi youth are turning to social media to promote their faith 

Standing up in the name of truth and justice

Indonesia’s struggle to create a culture of reading

What next for Indonesia’s underwater cultural heritage?

Bali’s World Heritage listing has put its rice-farming culture under stress 

How UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage program transformed the batik neighbourhood of Laweyan

Archeology and public participation in Indonesian heritage management

Yogyakarta’s little internet community, Taman Sari

An ongoing struggle to control a historic Mosque disrupts a heritage region

When visitors take pictures of Indonesia, they tend to photograph Indonesia’s cultural heritage. They also often exclude people or represent them as bound by history and relics of a past era.

LGBT rights and recognition have been under attack in the Indonesian media, for various reasons

Lontar Modern Indonesia Fiction Series

Lontar Modern Indonesian Fiction Series