Politics Article Type

Obituary: Stop telling, start listening

Owen Podger’s guide to aid-giving

Dancing into the elections

The replacement of dangdut with TikTok dances in the 2024 elections heralds a massive demographic shift in Indonesian political campaigning and beyond

The Labour Party (Partai Buruh) was revived in the wake of opposition to the Omnibus Law on Job Creation, but failure in the 2024 election shows they failed to connect with the workers they aim to represent

Book review: Uncovering Suharto's Cold War

Film review: Inheriting collective memories through 'Eksil'

A documentary embraced by TikTokers is changing how young people understand Indonesia’s past

Book review: Clive of Indonesia

The Jokowi-Luhut alliance

A business alliance forged in 2008 between Joko Widodo and Luhut Pandjaitan formed the basis for a major axis in his presidency

Review: Netflix’s ‘Cigarette Girl’ promotes Big Tobacco interests in Indonesia

Netflix’s series Gadis Kretek (Cigarette Girl) romanticises an industry that kills around 290,000 Indonesians each year

Book review: I am that unicorn

Obituary: Soni Farid Maulana (1962-2022)

Book review: Systemic Silencing

An Indian student in Indonesia

Times change. Neighbours can now learn a lot from Indonesian democracy.

Prabowo's record in need of review

Letter to the Editor

Review: Historical parallelism: Batavia-Ommelanden and Jakarta-Bodetabek

Photo essay: Human-Nature connections

Indigenous Dayak Benawan in West Kalimantan

Book review: Civil society elites

A history of film activism

Though characterised by autocracy and authoritarianism, political dissent found a place in the cinema of the Sukarno and Suharto eras

Internationalisation as democratisation?

Film festivals, streaming and creative freedom

Filming female agency in environmental activism

Recent documentaries have highlighted the agency of women in tackling the local and global environmental challenges of our time

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