Society

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 Indonesian Fiction Series

Lontar Modern Indonesia Fiction Series

A regional problem with a regional cause  

An Indonesian transsexual movement faces challenges from within, as well as from without

HIV prevention programs lack financial support, with serious consequences

An environmental movement is generating new forms of resistance by fusing traditional and contemporary Balinese art with social media

Poems across the Indonesian-Australian divide