Society

Inventing Papua
Migrants from South Sulawesi have played an important role in manufacturing a Papuan identity
Writing for God
Piety and consumption in popular Islam
Blaming the messenger
Indonesia’s tangled public information laws are keeping the press in check
Skin deep
Young Indonesians struggle to resist the power of the skin whitening industry
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NGOs are having to come to terms with the demands of the governance agenda
Crime and criminality
This edition of Inside Indonesia explores the complex politics of illegality
Prison cum hostel?
A political economy of drugs thrives inside one of Indonesia’s most notorious prisons
Marginal and tattooed
A group of Jakarta punks challenges the criminal stigma attached to tattoos
Brutal lessons
A culture of violence in schools makes life tough for kids
Personality cults
Foreign news coverage needs to focus on Indonesia’s people, not just its leaders
Global fashion, remixed
Indie designers rework commercial iconography – and the business of clothing production
Seeking Soeparno
A man who left his home to work in a plantation half-way around the world
Policy drift
Ten years after Suharto, the economy is not recovering fast enough