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Published in: openMovementsFighting the good fight: Labour activism during COVID-19 in Indonesia
During the pandemic, Indonesia’s unions have found new ways to be heard without resorting to the streets.
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Published in: 50.50Arrests of women’s rights activists put Saudi Arabia on the wrong side of history
From Indonesia to Saudi Arabia, Muslim women’s movements for equality are increasingly interconnected – and unstoppable.
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Published in: HomeDrug offences: states must acknowledge the flawed logic at the heart of the regime itself
As the world turns its back on the death penalty for drug offences, the US looks to the extreme fringe.
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Published in: HomeIn Indonesia, the peasant struggle of Kendeng
"We are ‘orang desa’ (country people), far from big cities. Maybe it’s hard for you to imagine that we work close to...
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Published in: 50.50A fatwa against sexual violence: the story of a historic congress of female Islamic scholars
Can women interpret Islamic law? Scholars who think so recently gathered in Indonesia, where fatwas were also issued...
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Published in: HomeRescuing democracy from the harms of hate speech
The tale of two places of worship, in the United States and Indonesia, suggests that fighting actual discrimination...
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Published in: HomePeat fires travel underground - the Indonesian disaster
Walking around the town in the worst of the smoke, I estimated a good 50 percent were not covering their faces at...
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Published in: openSecurityIndonesia regresses with the use of the death penalty
The prospect of execution of two Australians in Indonesia has caught international media attention, amid Australian...
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Published in: HomeAsia at the crossroads
Aside from China, nearly all the states in Asia make use of the trappings of democracy, such as elections,...
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Published in: TransformationCan clients become citizens? Evaluating the new democracy in Indonesia
Political transformation means more than a few new institutions. It’s a deeply cultural process that lives in the...
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Published in: civilResistancePopular action against corruption
Some of the biggest corrupt operations are run by governments themselves, and watchdog bodies often lack sufficient...
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Published in: Home‘Change’ in Indonesia: critical reflections on the Indonesian elections
Indonesia is under a spell of change. But does the election of Joko Widodo really represent a clean break for the...
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Published in: HomeMeasuring democracy in Indonesia's borderlands
While democracy may seem to be working in Indonesia on a theoretical level, a look into the impoverished province of...
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Published in: HomeThe state of silence: Indonesia’s religious discrimination
Indonesia’s religious minorities have no recourse when the state becomes a passive audience to violent attacks...
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Published in: 50.50Indonesia: facing life with HIV
Strategies, no matter how well intentioned, are not enough without the knowledge, insights and experiences of people...
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Published in: openSecurityDompak eco-city: a tale of corruption
The creation of new master-planned cities is an emerging transnational trend stretching across Asia, the Middle...
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Published in: HomeElections in Indonesia: long-term lessons for democratisation after regime change
Recent Indonesian electoral politics offer significant lessons for other Muslim nations which are grappling with the...
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Published in: HomeMilitary ambition in Indonesia's presidential politics
Indonesian society must decide whether democratic reforms will continue to strengthen civilian governance in the...
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Published in: HomePapua’s response to the gift of Special Autonomy plus
Many Papuans are concerned about what the impact will be of the current president’s so-called “gift” to the...
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Published in: HomeMissed opportunities to rid the Middle East of WMD
Concerned by misrepresentation of Egypt’s withdrawal from the recent NPT meeting in Geneva, a retired Egyptian...