The word itself needs rescuing,’ Mutiara told me. What is so often dismissed as trivial, unpleasant encounters, through repetition become one of the ways inequalities are made. Mutiara lost a job when ...

In 1778 the Bataviaasch Genootschap voor Kunsten en Wetenschappen or Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences was established in Batavia, now Jakarta. The exclusively male Board of Directors, was ...

The collapse of the New Order during the Asian financial crisis paved the way for many political and economic reforms in Indonesia. In exchange for development aid, multilateral donor agencies such as ...

Indonesians' present-day notions of beauty are embedded in a long and complex relationship between skin colour and race Go to any mall in Indonesia and you will find images of light-skinned, if not ...

House of the Unsilenced postcard, which reads: ‘This is our house, which we’ve built from our stories and artworks. Here we are not silenced. Here we are free to express ourselves. Listen to our ...

It is often assumed in Indonesia that people who are both Muslim and queer constantly experience konflik batin (inner conflict). It is further assumed that Muslim queers are prone to negative and ...

In the past two years race and racism has come to the forefront of political and social debate in many countries, including Indonesia. America’s #BlackLivesMatter movement resonated globally and ...

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During the Japanese occupation, the Balinese teacher Ida Wayan Sidemen from Klungkung showed the children at his school a Dutch, a Japanese and an Indonesian flag. ‘He wanted them to understand what ...

According to local resident Om Nono Muma, most of residents in the small West Sumatran town of Sawahlunto are descendants from migrants who came from other parts of Indonesia, particularly Java, to ...

In 2021 the West Sumatran photographer Muhammad Fadli and journalist Fatris MF, published an innovative documentary project called The Banda Journal. Through photography, textual narratives and film, ...

A vendor sells counterfeit shoes based on designs from Nike and Adidas. Counterfeit footwear is among the most popular items amongst Gen Z Shoppers / Alice Sinclair ‘The original price is Rp16 million ...