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The 2024 elections illustrate how business figures are taking the business risks out of engaging in political contests

ANU experts share their impressions and predictions about Indonesia's election

Hardliners are adapting to electoral realities—and state restraints—in mobilising for Anies Baswedan.

Personal and patronage ties are once again at the fore.

The ECCC highlights some hazards of miscommunication and mistranslation in multilingual war crimes proceedings

An end-of-2023 note from the site's editor

The narrowing field of political contestation in Indonesia is not just being driven by presidential machinations and ruling-coalition infighting—but also the inescapable contradictions of Indonesia’s middle income status

Does polarisation have a mass base?

A colonial record’s hint at a forbidden lesbian relationship is a reminder of the potential for historical research to uncover queer life in Indonesia’s past and present

China’s modes of foreign economic cooperation are tailor-made for the Jokowi-era political economy

Boat arrivals cause frictions in coastal communities amid signs of a policy shift towards deterrence

Personal connections to the president dating back to his mayorship of Solo have proven a career asset to senior military officers.