Grassroots initiatives in several Indonesian cities have sprung up aimed at achieving food security through urban and family farming.
Helen Brown
Working as a close research partner of Twitter, we are focusing on information manipulation in the Indo-Pacific to encourage transparency around these activities and norms of behaviour that are conducive to open democracies in the region.
Associate Professor Sharyn Davies, Director of the Herb Feith Indonesia Engagement Centre and Indonesian Consulate General Melbourne 2022 Award winner, explains what the award means to her.
In Indonesia, the Bali-based rock band Navicula has spent the past 25 years tackling some of the country’s biggest social and environmental ills — corruption, human rights abuses, religious extremism, pollution, deforestation — through powerful, gritty, anthemic tracks.
A family on an Indonesian island poses for a photo with an elderly relative no longer able to smile, while another clan tries to dress one of their eldest forebears in khakis and a shirt.
Various agricultural groups have warned the central government that the country is rapidly losing farming land and are calling for immediate action.
Indonesians who were imprisoned as adult people smugglers using deeply flawed evidence have asked the current attorney general to use his mercy powers and resolve the “mockery of justice” overseen by his predecessor.
Hundreds of culturally significant artefacts from an historic Asian shipwreck that were offered for sale online before being seized under Australian legislation have been returned to the Indonesian Government.
Indonesia’s president said Thursday that his government is considering imposing a tax on nickel exports this year to increase revenue and promote higher-value local manufacturing.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the potential release of Umar Patek, jailed over the deadly 2002 blasts, will further ‘distress’ Australians.
A team of Griffith University archaeologists has received the prestigious Achmad Bakrie Award, one of the most important awards in Indonesia for science, technology, social thought and literature.
Social Affairs Minister Tri Rismaharini earlier this week submitted Indonesia’s report on its implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons Read more
A new movement is underway across Asia Pacific’s gaming landscape: play-to-own. Home to a thriving online gaming ecosystem along with a young, connected, digitally-native population, the region is well-equipped for this latest innovation in gaming.
Indonesia confirmed its first case of monkeypox in a local man who was recently overseas, prompting authorities to say they will distribute vaccines and increase lab testing services for suspected cases.
Widodo’s bid to tackle Indonesian rights cases sparks fury
Indonesia stands at the “pinnacle” of international leadership and its economy is strong enough to withstand global headwinds, Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has said in an annual address to parliament.
