Society

Local shari'a or human rights?

Local shari'a or human rights?

The debate about school uniforms is an ongoing struggle between those supporting the implementation of certain moral and religious standards and those who see such a choice as a basic human right
Working together to improve maternal health

Working together to improve maternal health

In 2015 Indonesia signed up the the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) to reduce its high rate of maternal mortality. Little progress has been made.
Diagnosing Indonesia

Diagnosing Indonesia

How has Indonesia’s quest for longer and healthier lives for its people unfolded in the past and present, and what does this mean for the future?
Chasing a cure for beriberi

Chasing a cure for beriberi

A long search for a cure for beriberi in Southeast Asia in the late nineteenth century was led by trial and a lot of error
Contesting the religious soundscape

Contesting the religious soundscape

A controversial regulation governing the call to prayer sparks a campaign aimed at taking down the Religious Affairs Minister
Countering the information void to beat COVID-19

Countering the information void to beat COVID-19

In the absence of reliable government information, citizens are stepping up to share local stories on COVID-19 and keep each other informed about the state of the pandemic
COVID-19 denial in Indonesia

COVID-19 denial in Indonesia

Mixed messaging from government about COVID-19 has left rumours and competing narratives to fill the information void, fuelling mistrust
Dancing for diversity

Dancing for diversity

The mixed-race identity of Indonesian-Australian cultural performers
Exhibited as losers

Exhibited as losers

A new artwork holds up a mirror to physical anthropology and its baseless racial categorisations
Beauty and belonging in West Papua

Beauty and belonging in West Papua

Papuan waria draw on foreign ideals of beauty in their quest for a sense of belonging in their local communities
Beauty and cosmopolitan whiteness

Beauty and cosmopolitan whiteness

Indonesians' present-day notions of beauty are embedded in a long and complex relationship between skin colour and race

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