Twenty years on, in Sidorajo the mud continues to flow and survivors feel neglected, diminished and unheard Toxic mud ...

But the most harrowing illustration of what happens when industrial risks are ‘tamed’ for the interests of the elite is an ...

It is what happens when a society treats education work as a calling from the heart, then prices it like charity. In Indonesia, we have a phrase that sounds noble and dangerous at the same time: ...

Students fundraising for victims of the Aceh and Sumatra floods demonstrate that offering assistance transcends sociocultural boundaries ‘This assistance (money and clothes) may be small, but within ...

This is a story about Easter in Kupang, where the celebration takes shape through two processions across sea and streets. I did not witness the first directly. I reconstruct it from conversations with ...

Tito Ambyo, in an apartment on the third floor in Kensington, Melbourne. Or Narrm — the name given by the Wurundjeri people, who lived here for more than forty thousand years before Europeans arrived, ...

Sawah between Patjitan and Ponorogo (c1935) / KITLV A1168 CC BY 4.0 Haunting and uncertainty in Ponorogo Baca versi Bh. Indonesia The first time I met the ghosts of Ponorogo, I wasn’t awake. It was ...

On the night of Kajang Kliwon, a sacred Balinese day when the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is believed to be especially thin, Pak Andri’s mother, Ibu Rum, had an experience she would ...

Somewhere between Jambi and Jakarta, a storm in the sky forced me to confront the spirits in the pages of the manuscripts I study. It was by no means the most remarkable manuscript we had seen that ...

What began as a usual day for rice farmer Sono quickly turned into a living hell from which he and his family could not escape. In a remote village in the agricultural hinterland of Central Java, Sono ...

In the last decade, Indonesian folk horror has experienced a striking renaissance. The wave began with Perempuan Tanah Jahanam (titled Impetigore internationally) in 2019 and reached unprecedented ...

The further we went into Gunungkidul, the quieter the road became: plantations stretched across barren landscapes, caves bored into the mountainside, and the houses stood silent save for the dried ...