Indonesia

Forest and faith in Mentawai

How Indigenous life and spirituality remain bound to forests undergoing ecological and political pressure in Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands In this extensively reported feature for Ekuatorial, journalist Dewantoro documents the lives of...

A life stolen in the name of national purity

The lynching of a 19-year-old Bengali labourer in Odisha exemplifies a growing climate of communal violence against Bengali-speaking Muslim migrant workers in India On Christmas Eve in Sambalpur, Odisha, a...

Jakarta: The price of belonging in Indonesia’s restless city

When a mother and daughter discover their local cemetery expanding for profit, their grief unearths a grim truth: in restless Jakarta, every breath—and every burial—exacts a heavy toll....

Cracks beneath the surface

Why West Java’s tremors – felt from the city of Bandung to Bekasi – demand urgent attention to Indonesia’s fault lines. It began with a shiver beneath the surface. At...

The Wisdom of the Semende

How a land stewardship custom honouring eldest daughters has allowed a Sumatran indigenous group to flourish over three hundred years South of the shiny skyscrapers of Singapore and west of...

Wheels of Inequality

Women motorcycle taxi drivers in Indonesia navigate exploitative digital platforms and structural gender bias Last month, on International Labour Day, Konde.co released a groundbreaking research report on the precarious conditions...

From Behind the Digital Curtain

In Indonesia’s digital shadows, LGBTQ+ voices are being hacked, harassed and silenced – often with the law’s blessing. In the dark corners of Makassar’s digital sphere, where anonymity should be...

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