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'Sunting' exhibit on Indonesian women: Tribute or tokenism?
Academia 1 month ago

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'Sunting' exhibit on Indonesian women: Tribute or tokenism?

The recent exhibition at the National Museum that aimed to celebrate women in Indonesian history car...
Minister kicks off public discussion on controversial new history books
Politics 1 month ago

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Minister kicks off public discussion on controversial new history books

Culture Minister Fadli Zon has reassured the public that the forthcoming history books “are no...
Diponegoro just wants to get respect: Carey
Interview 1 month ago

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Diponegoro just wants to get respect: Carey

The five-year guerrilla campaign resulted in a pyrrhic victory for the Dutch colonial government, le...
Diponegoro lives on, two centuries after the fact
Art & Culture 1 month ago

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Diponegoro lives on, two centuries after the fact

Although the Java War started two centuries ago, the story of Diponegoro's heroism remains fresh...
Rewriting the past: Indonesia's new history books spook scholars
Society 2 months ago

Rewriting the past: Indonesia's new history books spook scholars

A summary of the rule of Soeharto, who is also Prabowo's former father-in-law, only mentions how...
Revising history: A return to an incomplete narrative?
Academia 2 months ago

Revising history: A return to an incomplete narrative?

The rewriting of national history is a calculated move to bolster an increasingly authoritarian gove...
Lawmakers push to halt Fadli Zon’s 'history denialism' textbooks
Society 2 months ago

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Lawmakers push to halt Fadli Zon’s 'history denialism' textbooks

Following the culture minister's skepticism over the mass rapes that occurred  during the M...
Why the ARF cannot intervene in the Thai-Cambodian dispute
Academia 2 months ago

Why the ARF cannot intervene in the Thai-Cambodian dispute

The ARF functions as a dialogue platform for confidence-building and preventive diplomacy, not as an...
A critical inquiry into the denial of May 1998 mass rapes
Academia 2 months ago

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A critical inquiry into the denial of May 1998 mass rapes

Formal recognition, both domestically and internationally, has been vital in combating denial, valid...
Acknowledging our dark past
Editorial 2 months ago

Acknowledging our dark past

Removing violent accounts from history books will not "right a wrong" but rather woul...
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