Sitting on one of Semarang’s busiest traffic circles facing the Tugu Muda monument to fallen heroes and the Diponegoro military museum is Lawang Sewu, one of Indonesia’s most famous buildings.

When Indonesian parliamentarians wanted to curtail the powers of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), social media was suddenly awash with messages suggesting that the KPK was full of ...

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, ...

Yogyakarta's new international airport and aerotropolis embody national aspirations, but at what cost to the locals it has displaced? In August 2020, amid COVID-19 and not even a year behind schedule, ...

The last decade has witnessed an unprecedented rise in interest in colonial history across the world and efforts by grassroots organisations to address the enduring legacies of colonialism. One of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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, ...

President of the Labour Party, Said Iqbal, speaks at an election campaign rally at Istora Senayan, Jakarta (8/2/2024). ANTARA/Nadia Putri Rahmani The Labour Party (Partai Buruh) was revived in the ...

Still from the film Prologue of a nation by Bibi Fadlalla in the exhibition Our Colonial Inheritance/ Bibi Fadlalla reproduced with permission Amsterdam ...

Over half of the world’s palm oil supplies are sourced from Indonesia, where monocrop oil palm plantations today cover an estimated 16.38 million hectares of land. The expansion of oil palm monocrops ...