Majapahit was also one of the largest thallasocratic empires of its time. The Javanese naval supremacy was a force to be reckoned with, even for the colonial empires. The Portuguese, for instance, ...

The gubernatorial elections in South Sulawesi were among the latest in a series of direct elections during the last two years. Since revisions of the law on regional autonomy in 2004, several hundred ...

People with disability make up 1.4 per cent of Indonesia’s population, or around four million people, and yet they are an ...

Pramoedya Ananta Toer stands as a major figure in the landscape of Indonesian history and literature. His life and works are deeply intertwined with the intense periods of Dutch colonialism, the ...

Jewish communities in Indonesia have always been tiny, though their history is long. Jewish merchants are recorded in Sumatra in the tenth century, and diasporic and Israeli newspapers regularly ...

After China banned the importation of waste in 2018, Indonesia saw a surge in paper scrap imports containing plastic waste. This in turn led to the government bringing in tighter import rules, ...

Sunting, an exhibition at the National Museum in Jakarta, focuses on women’s contribution to social change in Indonesia, highlighting their leadership and achievements in fields such as education, ...

Imam Aziz passed away from a heart attack early in the morning on 12 July 2025. Hundreds of Indonesians paid tribute to him on their social media platforms. These tributes consistently acknowledged ...

In authoritarian contexts, the state seeks to control its subjects and deploy them to support regime goals. Indonesia’s New Order, often labelled an ‘authoritarian developmentalist’ regime, ...

In 2011, the village of Kadangmas in Kudus District, East Java, was designated as the site of a large water reservoir. In preparation for its construction, government officials went around the village ...