Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka has identified the halal industry as a strategic pillar in Indonesia’s pursuit of becoming a developed nation. He underscored the importance of fostering independence across halal sectors such as Islamic finance, food and beverage, Muslim fashion, and Islamic media content.
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How exactly are these online food platforms reshaping Indonesian society? And what happens when we compare their impact across different cultural and economic contexts? A fascinating new study by Nadia Egalita, a PhD researcher at RMIT, offers insights into these questions through comparative ethnographic research conducted in Surabaya and Melbourne.
In Indonesia, a boom in demand for seaweed from largely China-based industry has transformed seaweed farmers’ relationships with the sea and each other, creating new imperatives to assert “ownership” of sea space and have those claims backed up by grassroots state officials.
Despite significant strides in recent decades, Indonesia continues to face one of Southeast Asia’s higher maternal mortality rates. A recent study published by Syaraji and colleagues (2024) found that for every 100,000 live births, approximately 249 women die from pregnancy-related causes.
Indonesia sebagai negara pertama yang dikunjungi setelah Partai Buruh memenangkan pemilu menunjukkan perlunya Australia untuk memperkuat hubungannya dengan Indonesia.
Historically, Chinese-Indonesians have been rejected from mainstream society. In 1966, they were asked to legally change their “Chinese individual or family names”, as suspicions grew that Chinese-Indonesians still had a strong connection with the Chinese mainland and communism.
Indonesian student numbers in Australia have been in freefall for decades. Scholars, teachers and education leaders have sought to solve this problem and their quest has garnered dramatic labels such as ‘holy grail’, ‘missing link’ and ‘perfect storm’.
Indigenous knowledge is about the understandings, skills and philosophies created by indigenous peoples from their long-term interactions with their natural surroundings.
Indonesia’s strategic position as a country with a free and active foreign policy can be leveraged to optimize opportunities amid global tensions, with a special focus on the perspectives and behaviors of Generation Z consumers as the main drivers of the digital economy.
Utilising the original national survey data prior to the 2024 presidential election, the author finds that authoritarian beliefs and nostalgia for the authoritarian past do not explain support for Prabowo.
In Indonesia, a country prone to disasters and emergencies, effective risk communication can mean the difference between safety and vulnerability for millions. But what happens when risk communication fails to reach those most marginalised? How do social determinants of health impact how urban poor women navigate crises like the COVID-19 pandemic?
On 22 February 2025, President Prabowo Subianto hosted dozens of chief editors from major media organisations at his private residence in Hambalang, West Java, to discuss his administration’s budget cuts and free nutritious meals program.
From FIFA World Cup Qualifier power plays between Australia v Indonesia to cross-border goals, we break it all down.
Amid Indonesia’s conservative turn, the moral panics of the 2010s and the introduction of the draconian Criminal Code in 2022, LGBTQI+ people are as vulnerable as at any time in the country’s modern history.
“When you see the problems, you run to the problems, you face the problems, you overcome the problems.”
In mid-February 2025, a song titled Bayar, Bayar, Bayar (Pay, Pay, Pay) by post-punk band Sukatani sparked a nationwide call for greater freedom of expression under President Prabowo’s increasingly authoritarian administration.
