Green Left spoke to Ramzy and Romadon, from Salatiga in Central Java, about what sparked them to become activists and the political developments…

Vincent Bevins has written a riveting and quite disturbing book about the military coup that took place in Indonesia in 1965 and…

Recent scenes from Indonesia have gripped international headlines. Massive youth protests provoked by economic austerity and parliamentary privileges erupted across the country.…

In January 2025, Indonesia – the world’s fourth-largest country by population (282 million) with the seventh-largest Gross Domestic Product by purchasing power…

On September 16, 2023, fire at Indonesia’s National Museum swept through the roof and back wall, causing the building to collapse. It…

When I was doing interviews for my dissertation in Santiago, Chile, in 1972, I was told that the word “Jakarta” had been…

(Photo: Anne Marxze Umil/Bulatlat) Abused, exploited, deceived and neglected, that is how migrant workers in Indonesia are treated by their employers and…

“We indigenous Papuans ask you all for moral and social responsibility to save us from the genocide of indigenous Papuans and ecocide in the land of West Papua”

The terror that followed has few parallels; not even Pol Pot succeeded in killing, proportionally, as many Cambodians as Suharto and his fellow generals killed in East Timor

So the real figures behind this extraordinary military force is not how many countries plan to participate, but how many millions – or billions – of dollars Saudi Arabia plans to pay them for their fraternal military assistance