Society

30 September 1919 – 27 January 2008

Newspaper obituaries, from Sabang to Merauke

Who is really responsible for Indonesia's drug epidemic?

A conference in Banda Aceh reveals divergent opinions about what model of Islamic law Aceh should adopt

Jakarta’s disabled are striving for a better deal.

Tourism campaigns in East Kalimantan fall short of provincial middle class aspirations

Indonesia’s wealthy partake of a booming spa tourism industry, joining a pan-Asian community of well-to-do consumers of the ‘non-west’

Working-class Singaporeans travel to Indonesia’s Riau Islands in search of a fantasy built around sex

In our new edition, Inside Indonesia explores different perspectives on tourism

Despite being a scene of destruction and heartache, there is a strange beauty in the new landscape created in the wake of the Sidoarjo mud disaster.

An unstoppable flow of mud from an explosion in a gas well in Sidoarjo, East Java, has unleashed a plethora of political issues.

Displaced East Timorese children go hungry in Indonesian West Timor

Indonesia’s premier historian

Women in the Ministry of Finance face significant obstacles to advancement

Indonesia’s Muslim educators support democracy, but grapple with how to make that commitment consistent with Islamic law.

The rise, fall, and re-branding of a celebrity preacher

A community takes a fresh look at water

Inside Indonesia’s founder looks back

Indonesian, Australian and Timor Leste artists collaborate