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Experts in Exile: How Indonesia Lost an Entire Generation of Intellectuals
Thousands of students, experts, and foreign service officers were cast aside by the New Order regime. Has the country ever recovered?
Joko Anwar Talks About Rebooting the Scariest Movie He's Ever Seen
The critically-acclaimed filmmaker looks back at the golden era of Indonesian movies.
The Uniquely Indonesian Pains of Having Only One Name
Think your life is difficult? Try going through life with only a first name.
Every US President Cozies Up to Dictators
Trump's praise of foreign strongmen is unusually effusive, but America has a long history of alliances with authoritarians.
Soccer Madness in Indonesia: Can the Nation's Top League Finally Get Under Way?
The Indonesian Super League season might kick off this weekend. But then again, it might not. The reasons why go right to the heart of the country's politics.
Indonesia Did Terrible Things in East Timor — and Australia Doesn't Want You to Know About Them
Australia's government is fighting the release of documents that could shed light on the deaths of more than 200,000 people during Indonesia's occupation of East Timor.
'Indonesia Is Clearly in a Transition': VICE News Talks to Joshua Oppenheimer, Director of 'The Act of Killing' and 'The Look of Silence'
'The Act of Killing' offered a surreal look at the Indonesian genocide. 'The Look of Silence' is the director’s second film on the anti-communist death squads and their carnage.
Meet the Journalist Who Crushes War Criminals
I spoke to Allan Nairn about confronting mass murderers and ruining their political careers. His specialty being US-backed atrocities, Nairn has reported from the killing fields of Haiti, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Indonesia.
High Tension’s Karina Utomo Wants to Thrash With Indonesia’s New President
Joko Widodo supports economic reform and Napalm Death.
Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo Wins Indonesian Presidency, Heralds Reform
Jokowi is a cathartic figure in Indonesian politics, the first president to emerge from outside of the country’s powerful elite.
Common Man and Military Man Face Off in Pivotal Indonesian Election
Joko “Jokowi” Widodo presents Indonesia’s first real chance to break from the entrenched corruption of the political establishment.
Politicians Are Rewriting the History of Indonesia's Most Corrupt Dictator
Throughout his time in office, Suharto’s Golkar Party was an election vehicle masquerading as a political entity.