Before BTS made K-pop mainstream globally, there was me: a teenager from the United States who fell in love with Indonesian music and became a Sahabat NOAH, the equivalent of BTS’s Army.

When in 2019 the Indonesian government wanted to curtail the powers of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), students took to the streets. Many Indonesians were angry about this seemingly ...

The collapse of the New Order during the Asian financial crisis paved the way for many political and economic reforms in Indonesia. In exchange for development aid, multilateral donor agencies such as ...

When Indonesian parliamentarians wanted to curtail the powers of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), social media was suddenly awash with messages suggesting that the KPK was full of ...

A movement seeking justice, healing, and freedom for Black people has become a powerful rallying call for Indigenous West Papuans Resonating with the Black Lives Matter protests in the US and ...

Technicians of state utility PLN take part in an exercise to learn what do in case of emergencies in Depok / Antara Photo/Teresia May The government’s approach to this mega power infrastructure ...

Empires, grand in ambition and hard-hearted in expansion, have fought wars throughout history, whether Rome and Carthage, the Ottomans and the Habsburgs or the Mughals and the Marathas. Their ...

The replacement of dangdut with TikTok dances in the 2024 elections heralds a massive demographic shift in Indonesian political campaigning and beyond All three 2024 Indonesian presidential candidates ...

Pro-reformasi demonstrators in Solo, May 1998 / Sunaryo Haryo Bayu, Solopos, 1998. Hearing about my mother's experiences in May 1998 became a pivotal moment that has shaped my life. ‘Every second, I ...

A business alliance forged in 2008 between Joko Widodo and Luhut Pandjaitan formed the basis for a major axis in his presidency As Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut ...

Handshake / Unhistoried archive collection. Image is from the archive of a family whose member worked in a Faculty of Law, found in Malang, circa 1970s Indonesia’s transition to democracy in 1998 ...

In the past two years race and racism has come to the forefront of political and social debate in many countries, including Indonesia. America’s #BlackLivesMatter movement resonated globally and ...