If colonial batik once spoke of colonial refinement and order, contemporary batik narrates raw, honest resistance from the ...

Three decades after Suharto fell, the army is back. On the night of 8 May 2026, a screening of the documentary film Pesta ...

In Aceh, tensions boil over between locals and the Rohingya refugees they once generously took in On 26 March 2026 in the ...

The intensive program of Indonesian language and culture courses (PIBBI) at Salatiga’s Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana (UKSW ...

Early on Sunday morning, Jalan Jenderal Sudirman in Jakarta is full of runners, cyclists, and families enjoying the city’s weekly car free day. Along the roadside, dozens of photographers with ...

No single voice can speak for the Seko people. That is exactly the point. The night I arrived in Seko in South Sulawesi’s North Luwu regency, most of the hillside was dark. A few houses glowed faintly ...

The Tasi Diak (Good Sea) was spotted from the air only after a tip-off from Aussie and Timorese activists plotting its progress. Although the boat had no communications equipment, its Darwin-based ...

When the school day ends, the classroom empties. Chalk dust settles. Children sprint to the gate as if freedom is a competitive sport. But the teacher does not rest. She checks her phone. There is ...

This is a story about Easter in Kupang, where the celebration takes shape through two processions across sea and streets. I did not witness the first directly. I reconstruct it from conversations with ...

Students fundraising for victims of the Aceh and Sumatra floods demonstrate that offering assistance transcends sociocultural boundaries ‘This assistance (money and clothes) may be small, but within ...

The orang Betawi are the native ethnic group who inhabit the Greater Jakarta metropolitan area, colloquially known as Jabodetabek. The ethnic group derives their name from Batavia, the capital city of ...

The first few months of 2026 marked a new stage in global geopolitics, particularly concerning the escalation of tensions in the Middle East. Amid the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, the United ...