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 ...

Indonesia’s diversity is well known for its languages, peoples, as well as world and local religions. This diversity, however, doesn’t always sit well with everyone. Since the country’s independence ...

While many journalists and academics reported the atomisation of ride-hailing drivers in North America and Europe, Indonesia seemed to be a good news story. There, drivers for Gojek, Grab and Shopee ...

The outcome of Indonesia’s presidential election on 14 February 2024 was no surprise. Even before the start of the campaign period, pollsters predicted a lead of around 40 per cent of the votes for ...

On 27 November 2024, 37 provinces and 508 regencies/cities in Indonesia simultaneously held regional head elections. During the election campaigns, many of the candidates used populist slogans to ...

Dressed in celebratory batik, the family gathered in the nondescript hotel ballroom resembles any other coming together for an anniversary or reunion. But this was no ordinary family. And the ...

How do we explain victories of neo-strongmen at recent democratic elections? There is no single answer to this question, but one aspect that requires our attention is the changing nature of election ...

Indonesia’s election year – with legislative and presidential elections held on 14 February 2024, and regional head elections on 28 November 2024 – was a critical test case for Indonesia’s democracy, ...

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‘I am campaigning because I feel like it,’ said Joko Widodo (‘Jokowi’) on 16 November 2024 as he toured the city of Purwokerto in support of Ahmad Luthfi’s bid for the Central Java governorship. He ...

Why some ride-hailing drivers stay outside mutual aid organisations Sheri Lynn Gibbings, Elan Lazuardi and Robbie Peters While many journalists and academics reported the atomisation of ride-hailing ...