Their author, a German-born Catholic priest, had already recorded in his preface that a crowd burned his Marx book back in 2001. He was furious. He had written it, he explained, precisely to refute ...

When Smoke-Free Areas are implemented comprehensively — without cigarette advertising in public spaces, without smoke ...

Indonesia occupied Timor Leste (formerly East Timor) from 1975 to 1999. In 1999, 79 percent of nearly half a million voters ...

The collapse of the New Order during the Asian financial crisis paved the way for many political and economic reforms in Indonesia. In exchange for development aid, multilateral donor agencies such as ...

According to local resident Om Nono Muma, most of residents in the small West Sumatran town of Sawahlunto are descendants from migrants who came from other parts of Indonesia, particularly Java, to ...

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 ...

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In 1995, 18 East Timorese youths sailed illegally to Australia in a small fishing boat. After five nights at sea they reached Australian waters. They were picked up by Australian Customs and brought ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The replacement of dangdut with TikTok dances in the 2024 elections heralds a massive demographic shift in Indonesian political campaigning and beyond All three 2024 Indonesian presidential candidates ...