This year’s theme for the festival was imajinasi. The winning film this year centres on a father facing life as an empty nester.
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Actor brothers Stephen, 49, and Bernard Curry, 51, were named winners of The Amazing Race Australia: Celebrity Edition after a come-from-behind victory in Java, Indonesia.
Visitors enjoyed diverse activities including dance and band performances, traditional reog shows, food stalls, clothing vendors, fashion shows, and children’s workshops.
Mowea Sarapu: Centuries-old dispute settling process aims to let couples put infidelity behind them, foster a sense of peace, maintain dignity.
Indonesian language officially became the 10th recognized language by UNESCO, alongside other languages such as English, Arabic, Mandarin, French, Spanish, Russian, Hindi, Italian, and Portuguese.
Mothernet, a new Indonesian feature by director Ho Wi Ding, explores grief in a world where AI can bring a loved one back to life with uncanny accuracy.
In Indonesia, it is common for people to lean on grandmothers to look after their children while they are at work. Many gladly do, as their way of showing care toward the family. As part of this, grandmothers would cook meals for their grandchildren and also buy them treats. Indonesian children often grow up on their grandmother’s cooking.
There is a perfectly acceptable argument that the first 17 rounds of MotoGP 2025 had been far too predictable. But with the championship settled, the shackles came off in Indonesia as a dirty track and insane temperatures.
Renowned for diverse marine life, pristine coastline, and other-worldly volcanic terrain, this chain of islands is where the famed Komodo National Park—with its golden savannahs, crystalline waters, and native population of the infamous lizards from which it draws its name—calls home.
On 10 September 2025, Acicis celebrated its 30th Anniversary with a special gathering in Canberra. The evening brought together alumni from across three decades, government representatives, university partners, and long-time friends of the consortium
The shortlist for ReelOzInd! 2025 features 24 short films by filmmakers from across Australia and Indonesia. Winners will be announced at festival premieres in Melbourne and Yogyakarta on 23 October.
As a child growing up in Sydney, Lee – an acclaimed chef and James Beard award-winning cookbook author – was mesmerised by her Indonesian grandmother preparing traditional dishes, watching her ‘Popo’ grind ingredients into a paste for gado gado sauce, observing the steam rising from a bubbling pot of babi kecap on the stove.
Indonesian language study in Western Australia is in crisis, with the number of Year 12 students sitting ATAR Indonesian plummeting from 350 in 2001 to just 50 in 2024, according to figures from the School Curriculum and Standards Authority.
In the interior of North Kalimantan Province, there still exists a forest tribe that truly lives within the jungle. This tribe is dubbed the last hunters and gatherers of Kalimantan (Indonesian part of Borneo).
Located at Queen Victoria Market Melbourne, the “Taste of Indonesia” event celebrating Indonesia’s 80th independence anniversary was held on 30 and 31 August. This annual culinary festival showcased a variety of Indonesian specialities, including traditional snacks and desserts.
Monash University Museum of Art will next month debut the landmark Indigenous exhibition Awakening Histories, exploring the deep connections between the First Nations Peoples of Northern Australia and the Makassan seafarers of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
