In the Indonesian online sphere, illustrators who are invested in railway history have begun reimagining train stations ...

Before BTS made K-pop mainstream globally, there was me: a teenager from the United States who fell in love with Indonesian music and became a Sahabat NOAH, the equivalent of BTS’s Army.

In 2024, Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) quietly disbanded. This news drew far less public attention than when the terrorist organisation was in the international spotlight following the 2002 Bali bombings.

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 ...

Puisi ini berfokus pada sepatu boot tua yang bisa diinterpretasikan sebagai figur pejuang lama yang memiliki peran monumental dalam perjuangan Timor-Leste. Ini adalah sebuah alegori politik yang ...

When the authoritarian New Order regime collapsed in 1998, many people expected that organised labour would be in a good position to benefit. Successive post-Suharto governments changed labour laws in ...

It was mid-October, 1998, in Malang, East Java. I was sitting in a friend's house watching television coverage of Indonesian students demonstrating in the streets of Jakarta. They were protesting ...

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 ...

What might Indonesia have achieved if it had not occupied East Timor? As an Indonesian who always sympathised with Timor-Leste’s independence struggle, I once thought its freedom was an impossible ...

A child worker burns mercury amalgam while smoking. Inhaling mercury is one of the most direct and dangerous ways of taking it into the human body. (Omar Pidani and Fitrilailah Mokui) Improved market ...

In 2009, my brother came across a reference to our grandfather (whom, in the Dutch tradition, we called opa) on the Verzetsmuseum website in a story about Dutch resistance member, Bep Stenger, the one ...