An Indonesian push for a Southeast Asian return to values rooted in an ancient Indo civilisation amounts to an innovative attempt to manage polarisation.
Human Rights
Six contestants in the Miss Universe Indonesia pageant have filed complaints with police, accusing organisers of sexual harassment.
A Muslim preacher has been arrested on charges including blasphemy and hate speech after his Islamic boarding school provoked protests for allowing women to preach and pray beside men, police said.
Marriage between people of different faiths has become more difficult, if not impossible, following a Supreme Court circular letter telling district courts to stop giving legitimacy to these unions.
Processes of rapid and truncated agrarian change—driven through expanding urbanisation, infrastructure development, extractive industries, and commodity crops—are shaping the livelihood opportunities and aspirations of Indonesia’s rural youth.
A forthcoming Indonesian regulation that would force online content distribution platforms to share revenue with media companies will harm the press and limit the flow of information, one such distributor, Google, has warned.
Zainudin Kelsaba traversed across the eastern Seram highland and stopped at an ancient outcrop grown over by trees and scrub.
Mutiara Mulia orphanage is part of a trend of charitable groups using the popular video-sharing app to attract funding.
There have been cases of surrogacy in several regions of Indonesia, carried out by individuals secretly through family connections.
With sturdy riffs and Rage Against the Machine-style funk bass, the young female trio have accrued millions of listeners – and are devoted to calling out violence against women.
A new book throws light on the 1965 massacres – but the government’s redress for victims is yet to extend to justice for the perpetrators.
A group of widows off Jakarta Bay collects scraps of rusted metal that break off from ships and float to the shoreline. They’re part of Indonesia’s green shipping boom, but they barely earn enough to feed their families.
The voice of Isabelinha de Jesus Pinto is heard narrating this vivid memory after her departure from Timor-Leste, in the opening minutes of the short documentary Nina & The Stolen Children (2016).
At least 150 Indonesians, mostly from religious minorities, have been convicted under the law since 1965, rights group says.
Concerns program to provide victims of abuses from 1965 mass killings to Aceh conflict with compensation will hinder justice.
Two cases highlight inconsistencies in the way Indonesian authorities enforce blasphemy laws.
