The Jakarta Post
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search results
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search resultssoeharto
Opinion 1 month ago
PREMIUM
Analysis: PPHN Prabowo's green light for Soeharto's ghost
It is almost a done deal. After a decade of false starts under President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, the push to revive a binding state roadmap, the Pokok-Pokok Haluan Negara (Principles of State Policy, or PPHN), finally has what it lacked: political consensus and a president willing to back it.
Politics 1 month ago
PREMIUM
Prabowo’s textbook overhaul plan fuels revisionism fears
President Prabowo Subianto’s plan to overhaul school textbooks has raised concerns that the government could use the revisions to further its controversial project to reshape Indonesia’s history, which critics have accused of downplaying human rights violations committed during the New Order era.
Academia 2 months ago
PREMIUM
The ‘Sturm und Drang’ of a teenage girl and Indonesia’s transition to authoritarianism
Framed against the violent communist purges of 1965, Tari Lang’s debut memoir My Neighbour the Dictator weaves a gripping, Anne Frank–like coming-of-age story of a teenager thrust into Indonesia’s dangerous underground resistance.
Academia 5 months ago
PREMIUM
Middle powers: A new vision for India and Indonesia
Despite their geographical proximity and deep-rooted cultural affinities, India and Indonesia often overlook their potential as a united diplomatic front. By reclaiming the historic spirit of the Bandung Conference, these two "middle powers" could lead the way toward a more stable, multipolar world order.
Editor's Picks
Popular
- New islands appear after Anak Krakatau volcano erupts
- The agrarian reform law and investment prospects of palm oil
- Philippines arrests 244 foreign workers in online scam crackdown
- A ministry restored
- Dutch royal house benefitted from colonial policies, study shows
- Myanmar migrants returned to war-torn nation from Malaysia
- Land rights controversy hurts palm oil investment
- Prabowo resurrects advisory board
- Reshuffle shores up coalition support for 2029
- Bringing the military back in
