Arts - Inside Indonesia: The peoples and cultures of Indonesia

The absences that remain in a history of Indonesian women

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 14:20:06 +0700

An exhibition at the National Museum shows that marking women’s contribution to the nation remains highly contentious

Myth, art and science

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 08:51:12 +0700

Indah Arsyad’s Balinese perspective

Sukarno's Indonesia as seen from Yogyakarta

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 11:53:03 +0700

Sukarno's dedication to the arts and obsession with creating a nationalist ideal live on in luxury hotels he built in the 1960s

Essay: Under the poetic stars

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 08:18:58 +0700

Makassar International Writers Festival and its ripple effects

Petruk 1920 confronts Petruk 2020

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 17:14:04 +0700

An essay introducing Ki Purbo Asmoro’s original wayang tale Tamba Tĕka, Lara Lunga (Remedy Shows Up, Malady Gives Up)

Beware the disease of influenza

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 17:13:08 +0700

An anonymous Javanese text written in response to the flu epidemic of 1918-19, offers its audiences eerily familiar lessons for surviving a pandemic

Dancing into the elections

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 07:26:27 +0700

The replacement of dangdut with TikTok dances in the 2024 elections heralds a massive demographic shift in Indonesian political campaigning and beyond

Indonesians call for climate action through music

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:55:02 +0700

Self-education and lived experience of the impacts of climate change, are driving a grassroots environmental movement

Making music together

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 09:40:42 +0700

At Earhouse Songwriting Club music is not only about the performer or performance, but also about the audience and the act of listening

Obituary: Soni Farid Maulana (1962-2022)

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:36:47 +0700