Is KGMP working to assist workers or to nullify resistance? The gig economy has continuously served as a backup plan when formal jobs are hard to find. In Indonesia, the number of people working in ...

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 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 ...

Handshake / Unhistoried archive collection. Image is from the archive of a family whose member worked in a Faculty of Law, found in Malang, circa 1970s Indonesia’s transition to democracy in 1998 ...

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, ...

Between January 2016 and December 2018 Indonesia’s online media saw an unprecedented rise in anti-LGBT hate speech and an extraordinary level of coverage of LGBT issues more broadly – a sign of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

L-R: Siti Hediati Hariyadi (Titiek), Sara Djojohadikusumo and Budi Djiwandono are all Gerindra representatives in the DPR 2024-2029/IG @rahayusaraswati Dressed in celebratory batik, the family ...

Benteng (Fort) Rotterdam is a cream-brick, red-roofed fortress complex on the historic, harbourside edge of Makassar, South Sulawesi. The seventeenth-century Dutch colonial fort does not look out of ...