Society - Inside Indonesia: The peoples and cultures of Indonesia

Disability and exclusion

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:14:40 +0700

The intersection of disability and poverty creates layered barriers to financial inclusion

Essay: When cultural roots meet political change

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:06:23 +0700

Through decades of shifting political landscapes, Tangerang's Chinese community has preserved their sacred traditions

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)

Reporting on Java’s 1918 influenza pandemic

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 17:13:25 +0700

Pieter Bastiaan van Steenis’ report on the 1918 influenza pandemic in Java is a rare and detailed account by a colonial health official who experienced its horrors first-hand

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

Interpreting pandemics through history, text and performance

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 17:12:53 +0700

Featuring translations and analysis of rare texts, including the revival of an early 20^th century Javanese wayang play, this edition illustrates the multi-faceted ways in which pandemics affect us and how a conversation between the science of epidemiology and public health, drama and translation are interwoven in interesting and sometimes surprising ways.

Asbestos danger

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:58:21 +0700

What can be done to prevent suffering in Indonesia?

Gendered flames

Mon, 20 May 2024 09:55:36 +0700

There have been improvements in understandings about the importance of women’s roles in community-based environmental initiatives, but in the realm of fire governance there is still a long way to go

Book review: I am that unicorn

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 06:29:19 +0700

Essay: A movement to remember

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 12:33:02 +0700