To commemorate the return of these sacred statues, the first Gotong Toapekong procession was held in the eighth month of the ...

In many ways, development creates an illusion of choice. As Baudrillard suggests, the choices offered by capitalism are often ...

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Struggling in their transition from education to work, educated young people in rural Flores are often both dependent on and critical of local social support networks ...

L-R: Siti Hediati Hariyadi (Titiek), Sara Djojohadikusumo and Budi Djiwandono are all Gerindra representatives in the DPR 2024-2029/IG @rahayusaraswati Dressed in celebratory batik, the family ...

Every day migrant workers from South Sulawesi enter Sabah state in East Malaysia illegally, without visas and passports, mainly in search of work on palm oil plantations. Take, for example, Syarifah ...

How do we explain victories of neo-strongmen at recent democratic elections? There is no single answer to this question, but one aspect that requires our attention is the changing nature of election ...

The young IT specialist working for a multinational company in Jakarta has plenty to pride herself on. Her monthly pay packet of US$2,000 is bigger than that of 99 per cent of her fellow Indonesians.

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