Before BTS made K-pop mainstream globally, there was me: a teenager from the United States who fell in love with Indonesian music and became a Sahabat NOAH, the equivalent of BTS’s Army.

In the Indonesian online sphere, illustrators who are invested in railway history have begun reimagining train stations ...

In 2024, Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) quietly disbanded. This news drew far less public attention than when the terrorist organisation was in the international spotlight following the 2002 Bali bombings.

When in 2019 the Indonesian government wanted to curtail the powers of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), students took to the streets. Many Indonesians were angry about this seemingly ...

The collapse of the New Order during the Asian financial crisis paved the way for many political and economic reforms in Indonesia. In exchange for development aid, multilateral donor agencies such as ...

A movement seeking justice, healing, and freedom for Black people has become a powerful rallying call for Indigenous West Papuans Resonating with the Black Lives Matter protests in the US and ...

When Indonesian parliamentarians wanted to curtail the powers of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), social media was suddenly awash with messages suggesting that the KPK was full of ...

At Indonesia Bertutur 2024, a biannual festival exploring Indonesia’s cultural heritage through contemporary art, the historic gardens of Bali’s Museum Puri Lukisan became the stage for Amrta, a ...

According to local resident Om Nono Muma, most of residents in the small West Sumatran town of Sawahlunto are descendants from migrants who came from other parts of Indonesia, particularly Java, to ...

Farmers work a potato farm near a geothermal plant on the Dieng Plateau, on the Indonesian island of Java / Raditya Mahendra Yasa via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). A deadly accident at a geothermal power ...

In 1778 the Bataviaasch Genootschap voor Kunsten en Wetenschappen or Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences was established in Batavia, now Jakarta. The exclusively male Board of Directors, was ...