Oct 28, 2021 Last Updated 10:22 AM, Oct 21, 2021

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Social Media

Cyber mercenaries vs the KPK

Map of online news covering the ‘KPK is a Taliban hotbed’ story, showing how mainstream media amplified the cyber troop campaign to garner public support for the KPK Law revision / Drone Emprit

Cyber troops spread disinformation to gain public support for the KPK Law revision

Organisation and funding of social media propaganda

The desk of a buzzer, with dozens of phone cards and seven mobile phones / Wijayanto

Politicians and entrepreneurs spend big on hiring online mercenaries, or ‘buzzers’, to manipulate public opinion on social media in their favour

Why so serious?

Twitter/mumaxxmuma

Netizens’ responses to the banning of a popular slang word raise questions about the moral character of public communication

Pelakor dan Instagram

Lost in A Love Affair / Amanda Niekamp Creative Commons

Bahasa yang kita gunakan di media sosial ternyata sangat bias jender dalam memosisikan kaum perempuan dan melepaskan tanggung jawab kaum lelaki dalam narasi perselingkuhan

Budaya populer queer

Indonesian female cosplayer performing as a male character / Indra Adryan @indraadryan; APHIN @phinaphin. permission to use the photo granted

Ruang-ruang baru ekspresi queer melalui idola Korea dan komik bromance Jepang

#EroticArt: Agency, advocacy and women’s sexuality

One of my erotic drawings posted on Instagram / Patresia Kirnandita

Art and activism combine to drive the discourse about female sexuality on Instagram

Bicara tentang seksualitas perempuan lewat #eroticart di Instagram

Salah satu gambar erotis yang saya unggah di Instagram / Patresia Kirnandita

Menonton malu dan penghukuman

This image of a public caning in Aceh featured in news outlets around the world: Image by Heri Juanda/AP

Penyebaran foto hukuman Syariah merupakan strategi utama kontrol sosial di Aceh

Pelakor and Instagram

Lost in A Love Affair / Amanda Niekamp Creative Commons

Language around extramarital affairs on social media punishes women and lets men off the hook

Are #DildoforIndonesia a pair of sexist pricks?

The red letters spell out ‘most enjoyable penis’. Full poster reads, ‘The most fun tronjal-tronjol coalition for Indonesia, Nurhadi-Aldo for Indonesia, most fun tronjal-tronjol’. ‘Tronjal-tronjol’ means losing one’s mind during enjoyable sex activities.

Satirical candidates that once seemed refreshing have slipped into tired obscenity

#StayAlive

The 'Into the Light' Facebook page

Social media’s ability to help cut through stigma and misinformation on suicide is being underutilised

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The isolation poems by Putu Oka Sukanta

Oct 09, 2021 - PUTU OKA SUKANTA, VANNESSA HEARMAN & KIERNAN BOX

Supplied by Putu Oka Sukanta. Photograph by Lara Norgaard.

Poems by Putu Oka Sukanta were translated by Vannessa Hearman and Kiernan Box with commentary written by Vannessa Hearman based on her interview with the poet.

Reshaping masculine cultures of terrorism

Sep 20, 2021 - NOOR HUDA ISMAIL

Young men gather at Monas, Jakarta / Francisco Anzola @Flickr creative commons

Former members of terror networks are focussing on masculinity’s role in encouraging violent extremism in Indonesia

A lost generation

Sep 01, 2021 - ANTON LUCANUS

'Where we used to be', Central Jakarta, 2020 / ATH

Thousands of children have been orphaned and ostracised as the pandemic crisis continues to spiral

Film review: Kinipan

Aug 31, 2021 - ARFAN AZIZ

How forest restoration and food estate policies affect local communities

Photo essay: Banyutowo harmony

Aug 28, 2021 - HUTAMA LIMARTA

Locally bought fishermen’s catch at Banyutowo Fish Auction House

A fishing village on the northern tip of Java stays true to its roots

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