Commentary

food delivery

Talking Indonesia: ethnography of online food delivery

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.

sea space

Sea space, conflict and state building in Sulawesi

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.

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Talking Indonesia: women and healthcare

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.

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