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Falling through the cracks

The JKN or the National Health Insurance is failing Indonesia’s most vulnerable

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A drink for humanity

Honouring Indonesian activist Putu Oka Sukanta for humanity

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Jakarta’s Asian Games, yesterday and today

Ignoring issues from the 1962 Games will not help solve the many problems faced by sport in Indonesia

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Review: Footsteps of Indonesians in Victoria

Celebrating fifty years of the Indonesian Community Association of Victoria (IKAWIRA)

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A lottery love affair

On the island of Flores, a Singaporean lottery based on the Chinese zodiac is a popular pastime

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Essay: Hope in the darkness

A Hazara fleeing persecution has dedicated her life in Indonesia to helping her fellow refugees in Bogor

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Traditional village institutions and the Village Law

The Village Law provides recognition for traditional village institutions, but villagers in Bali and Mentawai are not interested

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When village development fails

Faulty administrative procedures led to the misuse of village development funds in Papua

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Participation in Ngada

Why residents in Ngada district are exceptionally eager to take part in village meetings 

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The village head as patron

The Village Law might restore the dominance that village heads enjoyed under Suharto

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New law, old bureaucracy

Taking stock after two years of village law implementation

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The myth of the harmonious village

Indonesia’s Village Law fails to provide village communities with control over their elites

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Creating Indonesia’s Village Law

How a law that goes against many vested interests was enacted

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New law, new villages?

The new Village Law could substantially change Indonesia’s villages. Not necessarily for the better.

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Review: Hope and despair in Aceh

Contemporary Indonesian painter Mahdi Abdullah exhibits Acehnese culture in Melbourne 

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Old and poor

Indonesia’s welfare schemes are failing to support older citizens

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Indonesia’s woman to watch

Yenny Wahid is the new face of moderate Islam

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Reviews: Writing Australia and Indonesia

Reviews: ‘Linking People’ and ‘Troppo’

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HIV-positive mothers left behind

Married women endure the highest rate of new HIV infection in Indonesia

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Review: Four perspectives on Hanung Bramantyo’s Kartini

Reviewing the history behind and themes in Hanung Bramantyo's Kartini

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