Indonesian women’s rights groups demand better protections against misogyny and harassment for livestream hosts When TikTok’s e-commerce platform launched in 2021, Indonesia became one of its biggest markets. Even after...
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...
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...
How a global green boom is rearranging lives, land and power In this sweeping investigation for Mongabay, journalist Irfan Maulana traces the human cost and political stakes of Indonesia’s nickel rush,...
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...
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...
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...
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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