Indonesia

There is economic and social upside for Indonesia in reducing its contributions to climate change

A subculture of street protest survives beyond Jokowi

On what’s lost when the Dutch East Indies is recalled as a time of picturesque sophistication

Caught in the middle of a new politicisation of Japan’s migration program

On the rise of banker and investor technocrats in Indonesia

Social media offers an ersatz form of accountability

Southeast Asian studies has lost one of its most compelling voices

The destruction of centuries past should focus the region on preparing for Indonesia’s next mega-eruption.

What happened when global markets arrived in two seaweed-fishing villages

Why are millions of Indonesian workers taking up methamphetamine?

The treatment of refugees in Indonesia sees a serious setback

An anatomy of unpermitted mining in Indonesian Borneo

Among Jokowi’s legacies for Prabowo is a nearly opposition-free elite landscape

Prabowo has been generous to former military and police officers when doling out cabinet positions

“A pre-dawn break-in could lead to an evening KLM flight”

The outgoing president transformed the relationship between government and civil society in his decade in power

Indonesia’s biggest Islamic organisations have dealt away their freedom to criticise government

Two problematic planned cities, one postcolonial utopia

New evidence for the overriding importance of money in electoral success

An industry that markets itself as socially responsible is failing in its duty to protect worker safety

The kretek cigarette industry and its devastating public health impacts are sustained via a huge apparatus of labour, and appeals to cultural nationalism

Identity and patronage are playing a part in stabilising a “two-track” party system

Broadcast regulators are still vigorously policing gender expression in the media

A new online survey gives researchers fine-grained insights into short-term shifts in public opinion