Indigenous communities of several ethnolinguistic groups across South Papua province have erected customary bar ...

In times of crisis, civil disobedience becomes not only legitimate but necessary. As Arendt understood, it is not a threat to ...

We stood beneath a coconut palm, its fronds swaying above an alang-alang field. Dayu Mas looked toward the Petanu river and said, ‘This place listens.’ It was 1983. We had been speaking for weeks ...

Students and youths have been instrumental in driving grassroots solidarity and activism Forms of solidarity have persisted between Indonesians and East Timorese after the restoration of Timor-Leste’s ...

On a late morning in 2022, I balanced on the back of a friend’s motorbike as we wound our way through the dusty streets of Atambua Selatan, West Timor, toward the weekly market. By the time we parked, ...

The treatment of a keris in a Batik clothing store in Indonesia /author In following the journey of Diponegoro’s keris from a Dutch museum to Indonesia, I encountered the social life of keris as an ...

Content creators can both initiate and benefit from viral trends/ Instagram @toni_jasafotomalioboro With high youth unemployment and the rise of digital media, a career as a content creator is an ...

Empires, grand in ambition and hard-hearted in expansion, have fought wars throughout history, whether Rome and Carthage, the Ottomans and the Habsburgs or the Mughals and the Marathas. Their ...

Dea is a 23-year-old student living independently in Pamulang sub-district in South Tangerang, Banten. She has visual impairments and has been struggling to replace her expired debit card at a bank ...

Sunting, an exhibition at the National Museum in Jakarta, focuses on women’s contribution to social change in Indonesia, highlighting their leadership and achievements in fields such as education, ...