Titre | Inside Indonesia |
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Langue | anglais |
Pays, continent | Indonésie, Asie |
Editeur | Edward Aspinall, Indonésie |
Périodicité | trimestrielle |
Editions | électronique |
Site web | http://www.insideindonesia.org/ |
Five years ago, many saw the electoral contest between Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto as a battle between good and evil. In April 2019, the two men face-off again for the presidency. This time it seems more like a case of the lesser of two (...)
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Former migrant workers are finding new empowerment in the bureaucratic jungle of legal aid Like many rural teenagers, Bariyah, the daughter of peasant parents, did not have many options when she finished secondary school in Kebumen District, (...)
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Insurrectionary anarchists, with international connections, nihilist values and a penchant for arson, are moving to fill the vacuum on the left par Dominic Berger On the night of 22 March 2011, bricks smashed the windows of a McDonald’s branch (...)
Food security is an urgent policy problem in Indonesia but opinions are divided about how best to feed the poorest and most vulnerable Indonesia is a country with a rapidly expanding middle class and a growing economy. Its neighbours are taking (...)
Rahmat Ajiguna talks to Eve Warburton about the need to make farmers the centre of food security in Indonesia. Rahmat Ajiguna is secretary general of Alliance for Agrarian Reform (AGRA). This organisation represents farmers from across (...)
People in rural Papua are more interested in basic services than grand political struggles Indonesian Papua is not a uniform entity. When outsiders think of Papua, they imagine provincial and national-level political conflicts and protests (...)
The statement by President Yudhoyono that recent violent incidents in Papua are ‘small-scale incidents compared to those in the Middle East’ (Jakarta Post, 12 June 2012) is worrying. The worry is not only that, by comparing Papuans and people in (...)
In Indonesia, it sometimes seems that the left is everywhere yet nowhere. Though one rarely hears the word socialism these days (it was sometimes used even by officials during the Suharto period), words that in other countries connote radical or (...)