The people of Indonesia & their culture, politics, economy and environment - Inside Indonesia: The peoples and cultures of Indonesia

The price of sacred land

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 12:55:49 +0700

Tourism and quiet dispossession in Sianjur Mula-Mula

‘We take care of our own’

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 06:46:04 +0700

COVID-19 has amplified existing societal fissures and exposed the alarming fragility of the lives of Indonesian transwomen who work as drag performers

Essay: Masked but not hidden

Fri, 22 Dec 2017 05:52:45 +0700

A small museum in Java is preserving a storytelling tradition, and the thoughts and feelings behind it

Food sovereignty and peasant activism

Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:07:22 +0700

Farmers and would-be farmers in Lombok are fighting a land-rights battle against the tourism industry

Good intentions, mixed realities

Tue, 05 Jul 2016 08:33:07 +0700

Bali’s World Heritage listing has put its rice-farming culture under stress

Religious conflict and heritage management in Banten Lama

Tue, 05 Jul 2016 06:45:46 +0700

An ongoing struggle to control a historic Mosque disrupts a heritage region

Wild West Batur

Mon, 22 Sep 2014 03:00:00 +0700

Beyond the tourism and real estate frontiers in Bali is a small branch of the global resource frontier.

Mining paradise

Sun, 11 May 2014 21:49:27 +0700

Local communities resist mining development on Sulawesi’s Bangka Island

Floating world

Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:44:37 +0700

See the world and be exploited

Empty seas and hard times

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:21:37 +0700

A community in western Bali hopes that government regulation and a shift to eco-tourism will save it from the decline of its traditional fishing industry