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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Indonesia, Islam is on the march. The country has been undergoing an Islamic revival since the 1980s, and religious activity of all kinds escalated in response to the freedom created by the fall of ...

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 ...

Rendra's life, writings and work indicate that spirituality and performance were not separate categories of human experience for him. They depict a man who conceived (perhaps nostalgically) of the ...