Adhik Kristiantoro earns his living from his skills in carving. Most of his clients are builders, who come to his workshop in Wirobrajan, Yogyakarta with orders for filigree work and detailing in ...

What is ethnicity? Is it social construction or a part of an ancestral heritage? In what way is ethnicity significant in the Indonesian context? These are the questions Holy Rafika Dhona tries to ...

Since Reformasi, Indonesia's ethnic Chinese community has experienced dramatic change in their relationships with the state and with other Indonesians. As the contributions to this edition suggest, ...

The sad news finally came and I attended Rendra's funeral to pay my last respects. I thought back to our first meeting in 1985 when a Dutch painter friend Bert Hermens invited me to his small ...

As the US deploys tariffs as economic weapons — the story of how a 1930s trade policy accidentally abolished penal sanctions ...

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Yohana Pekei and Nelly Pigome sell handicrafts by the road in Jayapura. In January 2008 they were interrogated by Indonesian police and intelligence agents because of the bags they make and sell. What ...

The pregnant patient on the examination bed in front of us was barely a teenager. Her late-term belly did not seem to match her youthful face, which was anxious as she waited for her nurse at the ...

Although there is no trace of an ancient Jewish community in the Indonesian archipelago, it is possible that Jews arrived in Sumatra and Java as individuals – traders and mariners from the Indian ...