To commemorate the return of these sacred statues, the first Gotong Toapekong procession was held in the eighth month of the ...

Every day migrant workers from South Sulawesi enter Sabah state in East Malaysia illegally, without visas and passports, mainly in search of work on palm oil plantations. Take, for example, Syarifah ...

The young IT specialist working for a multinational company in Jakarta has plenty to pride herself on. Her monthly pay packet of US$2,000 is bigger than that of 99 per cent of her fellow Indonesians.

Patriarchy at home For Ciciek, the struggle to achieve justice for women and transform what she describes as Indonesia’s ‘patriarchal social system’ is one that has taken place in her private as well ...

In many ways, development creates an illusion of choice. As Baudrillard suggests, the choices offered by capitalism are often ...