Society

Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing is a bold, disturbing and ultimately unsatisfactory exploration of the place of violence in modern Indonesia

Indonesian artists are using new media to rethink urban space

Indonesia’s liberal art scene attracts adventurous Australian artists

Titarubi’s art challenges masculinity in Indonesian visual arts and beyond

Dan Lev explains how an outsider became a national hero

Rather than being merely the result of religious extremism, recent cases of moral outrage point to a wide range of current political and social problems

A new program sends Indonesia’s best and brightest graduates to teach children in its poorest villages

Perfectly coiffed hair and rose-pink cheeks underpin Polri’s latest policing tactic

Highland communities in Papua are demanding access to services, but there is a limit to what can be offered in the most remote settlements

As infectious diseases spread, strategic governance becomes ever more important

Rebuilding trust in doctors will be an important part of Aceh’s post-conflict recovery

Mental health services have been seriously neglected in Indonesia, but emergency responses to the Aceh tsunami and conflict have led to new ways of thinking

Many Indonesian women face great difficulties in accessing safe terminations of unwanted pregnancies

Regional governments around Indonesia are devising new and ambitious free healthcare schemes for their electorates, but to what end?

Healthcare in Indonesia suffers from many chronic problems that only healthier politics can cure

Campaigns against smoking are finally gaining ground, but the tobacco lobby is fighting back

People in rural Papua are more interested in basic services than grand political struggles

In Jakarta’s crowded neighbourhoods, beliefs in supernatural power and invulnerability still surround the figure of the jago tough man

Indonesian television advertisements are constructing images of Indonesia by appropriating well-known nationalist themes