Jewel Topsfield – On the impoverished Indonesian island of Madura is a house that looks like it has taken an acid trip.
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January 7, 2018
December 14, 2017
Google recently released its Year in Search 2017 lists, showing the top unique terms that people entered into the digital giant's search engine this year.
December 7, 2017
If there's a silver lining to former Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama's controversial imprisonment for blasphemy, it's that it has served as a wake up call to the reality that fundame
December 5, 2017
Ihsan Ali Fauzi – When the news finally came that former State Secretary Djohan Effendi had died in Geelong on 17 November, few who knew him were surprised.
November 26, 2017
Jeffrey Hutton – Susi Pudjiastuti shows off a copy of an application for a permit submitted one year before she was named Indonesia's fisheries minister in 2014.
November 10, 2017
Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo recognized four prominent Indonesians as the country's heroes on Thursday (09/11), ahead of the National Heroes Day celebrations on Nov. 10.
March 23, 2017
Jakarta – Prominent journalist Ahmad Taufik died of lung cancer on Thursday at 7:15 pm after being hospitalized in Jakarta. His body was taken to the family home in Kebon Pala, Central Jakarta.
March 16, 2017
Ahmad Junaidi, Jakarta – Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country's largest Muslim organization, lost one of its best sons as its former chairman Hasyim Muzadi, passed away on Thursday in his home town of
March 10, 2017
Karishma Vaswani – On top of a rock formation on the Indonesian island of Bali, sits Tanah Lot.
December 19, 2016
Ariel Heryanto – On International Human Rights Day, 10 December, Indonesia lost one of its great public thinkers: George Junus Aditjondro.
December 12, 2016
Mahinda Arkyasa, Jakarta – The Timor Leste government extended it condolences for the passing of Dr. George Junus Aditjondro on December 10, 2016.
December 10, 2016
Ruslan Sangadji, Palu – Activist, researcher, scholar and former Tempo magazine journalist George Junus Aditjondro died in Palu, Central Sulawesi, on Saturday at 5:45 a.m. local time.
August 23, 2016
Hamish McDonald, Dili – The biggest private sector employer in Timor-Leste has two names on his business card.
January 22, 2016
Sarah Marinos – It's a weekday afternoon at Coburg Library and Kirsty Sword Gusmao and her youngest son, Daniel, 11, are browsing.
December 17, 2015
Jakarta – GlobeAsia, a sister publication of the Jakarta Globe that appears in print every month, has released a list of Indonesia's 50 most influential figures in its December issue, h
December 13, 2015
Dandy Koswaraputra, Jakarta – Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson, an Indonesianist with Cornell University, US, died at the age of 79 on Saturday night during a nostalgic visit to Indon
Jakarta – Studying Indonesia was not always easy for the late Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson, or Ben Anderson, who was banned from entering the country by the New Order regime due t
September 25, 2015
Sabam Siagian – It would be difficult to expect the emergence of a fearless fighter for democracy and staunch advocate of human rights to equal the late Adnan Buyung Nasution, or "Buyung" for short
September 23, 2015
Jakarta – Noted Indonesian lawyer Adnan Buyung Nasution has passed away at Pondok Indah Hospital. He died at 10:15 a.m. today, Wednesday 23 September.
June 8, 2015
For Kirsty Sword Gusmao, being appointed an officer of the Order of Australia is not just a recognition of her life's work, but of another country.
March 30, 2015
Hans David Tampubolon – Playwright Faiza Mardzoeki often takes inspiration and ideas from the books she reads to produce high quality plays.
December 21, 2014
Jakarta – Sitor Situmorang, one of Indonesia's most prominent poets, passed away on Saturday night local time in the Netherlands, at the age of 91.
July 26, 2013
Zoe Reynolds, Contributor, Sydney – Putu Oka Sukanta survived one of the greatest atrocities in Indonesia during the violence of 1965-1966.
July 25, 2013
Zoe Reynolds, Contributor, Sidney – Putu Oka Sukanta survived one of the greatest atrocities in Indonesia during the violence of 1965-1966.
May 5, 2013
Karl Quinn – Kirsty Sword Gusmao answers the door of her mother's house on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula wearing flat-heeled boots, a patterned jacket, a hint of make-up and no hair.
March 11, 2013
Zakir Hussain – Bonnie Triyana was buying men's magazines for his friends back home while attending a conference in Brazil eight years ago when he realized he had better buy a more resp
February 25, 2013
Lim Chia Ying, Dili – The breast cancer diagnosis that came just before Christmas was the latest in Kirsty Sword Gusmao's series of continuous battles.
February 18, 2013
Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono paid his last respects to the late former Indonesian Military (TNI) commander and former coordinating political and securi
December 1, 2012
In 1975, Jose Ramos-Horta, the then foreign minister of the newly-liberated nation of East Timor, was sent by his country's prime minister to New York.
October 20, 2012
Muhammad Cohen, Bali – Max Lane is a Marxist and leading authority on Indonesia.
September 22, 2012
Jakarta – Mindful of an increasing number of incidents of religious intolerance in the nation, activists are commemorating late president Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid, known as the smili
June 11, 2012
Shoeb K. Zainuddin – He was a giant of Indonesia's business world, a confidante of former President Suharto and the founder of the Salim Group.
Jakarta – Liem Sioe Liong, also known as Sudono Salim, once the country's wealthiest person who amassed vast wealth from his close connection with former New Order strongman Soeharto, p
May 24, 2012
Kate Hodal – Young, blonde, and Australian, she was an unlikely undercover agent for an unlikely cause: a far-flung province on a Southeast Asian island that had been in a bloody fight
April 28, 2012
Lindsay Murdoch – Jose Ramos-Horta guns his Mini Moke along Dili's pot-holed backstreets, waving and laughing with barefooted children running to see their President.
April 19, 2012
Ezra Sihite, Bayu Marhaenjati & Arientha Primanita – Sudomo, a former cabinet minister, Navy chief and top security commander, died in Jakarta on Wednesday morning at the age of 85.
Sita W. Dewi and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Indonesians have a strong tendency to refrain from speaking ill of the recently deceased.
Pitan Daslani – Navy Commander Adm. R.E. Martadinata looked tense as he gathered top officers at the Navy headquarters in early January 1962.
March 14, 2012
David McKittrick – At the funeral of Francisco Xavier do Amaral the president of East Timor paid handsome tribute to the man he described as "a symbol of unity in our aspiration to inde
March 9, 2012
Jakarta – The respected economist and senior New Order-era government official, Widjojo Nitisastro, died at 2.30 a.m. Friday at the Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital in Jakarta.
March 7, 2012
Damien Kingsbury – (Unknown) 1937-6 March, 2012.
Damien Kingsbury – (Unknown) 1937-6 March, 2012.
East Timor's first and shortest-serving president Francisco Xavier do Amaral died on Tuesday after a long battle with cancer, a presidential spokesman said.
April 15, 2011
Dessy Sagita & Arientha Primanita – Indonesia on Thursday bid farewell to veteran journalist Rosihan Anwar, who was laid to rest at the Kalibata Heroes Cemetery in South Jakarta wit
January 8, 2011
Jakarta – The wife of the late novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Maemunah Thamrin, 81, passed away at her residence in Utan Kayu, East Jakarta on Saturday afternoon after suffering from t
November 20, 2010
Tom Allard, Surabaya – When the editor of now defunct Sydney afternoon daily The Sun got the message through to Tony Rafty to head down to Java, the artist and caricaturist was not plea
October 29, 2010
Jakarta – Leading human rights activist Asmara Nababan died Thursday in Fuda Cancer Hospital, Guangzhou, China, where he was undergoing treatment for lung cancer. He was 64.
October 28, 2010
Ulma Haryanto, Jakarta – Asmara Nababan, a prominent Indonesian human rights activist passed away at the age of 64 on Thursday morning after battling pulmonary cancer.
December 31, 2009
Jakarta – Festive preparations to part with 2009 quickly turned into mourning on Wednesday as the nation bid farewell to its cleric of pluralism, Indonesia's fourth president, Abdurrahm
Abdurrahman Wahid, more affectionately known as Gus Dur, was the most colorful, if not the most illustrious among six presidents Indonesia has had.