A Betawi figure worries that many immigrants to Jakarta are too narrow in their cultural perspective.

Spew looks back on the May 1998 riots and the issues of mass rapes, anti-Chinese sentiment, and how the rioters came to be judged.

What Singkawang in Kalimantan is famous for, friendly people and wife selling.

Foreign efforts to eradicate female genital mutilation.

Indonesia’s lukewarm response to Kosovo statehood.

What if the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) had taken over in 1965.

Dukun/shaman practices in Indonesia.

Indonesia is founded on discrimination against minorities, says Dragonwall.

The president doesn’t need to be ethnically Javanese.

The nature of the 1965-66 pogroms in Indonesia as they occurred in East Java province.