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Fighting apathy, seeking engagement

 Students are finding value in Indonesia’s university community service program, despite its shortcomings

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Labour takes a citizenship approach

Despite the impressive activism of Pekalongan’s labour union, its political clout remains limited

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‘I am an Indonesian citizen!’

What does exercising citizenship in Indonesia's democracy look like?

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Digital citizenship

Online corruption talk in Banten can be vitriolic

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When ‘home’ is not home

Locals react coolly to ex-transmigrants who return to Java after fleeing violence elsewhere

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‘We are natural-born children, you are adopted’

Locals contest national citizenship rights in North Maluku

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Indonesia’s diaspora citizens

After decades of neglect, Indonesia’s diaspora demands more rights

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From mother to citizen

The New Order actively promoted citizenship of a particular kind for women

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Encountering Indonesia at AsiaTOPA (Part 2)

Reflections on contemporary Indonesia and Australia-Indonesia relations at the AsiaTOPA festival

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The Floating School

A mobile school in South Sulawesi offers new horizons to young islanders

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Footy, culture and finding community

Indonesians are bonding more deeply with Melbourne, through football and the Krakatoas

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Mining mercury in an Indonesian periphery

Improved market chain monitoring and recognition of sociocultural dynamics are important for central mercury control

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Church-based resistance to mining in Manggarai

Resistance is a way of defending local people’s rights in dealing with mining policy

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The extractive industries in East Nusa Tenggara

As a number of communities in East Nusa Tenggara reject mining, tourism as a resistance strategy can be equally exploitative

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Multiplier effects on the Bombana goldfields

Benefits ripple outwards but local government struggles to regulate the process

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Mining the land, mining people

Irrespective of location or commodity, peasants now compete with multinational mining companies on the mineral-rich tracts of Indonesia

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Small-scale mining in Central Kalimantan

After reformasi, Kereng Pangi, Kalimantan became the site of a gold rush

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Mining and equitable development

Mining dominates East Luwu GDP but development of agriculture underpins equitable development

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Has resource extraction reduced poverty? 

The benefits of more concentrated natural resources are less likely to be spread

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Stories from Sulawesi

The 2009 mining law and the community benefit in Sulawesi

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