Society

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

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

Poems across the Indonesian-Australian divide

Mobile libraries and writers clubs reveal a rich reading and writing culture among Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong

A writer pays homage to the women writers and intellectuals who paved the way for others

History and heritage in the Indonesian imagination

Pohlman’s study provides sensitive and powerful testimony of the impact of this violence on women and girls

A new interdenominational Christian movement is gaining momentum in urban centres