Indonesia
I am a freelance journalist from Jakarta, Indonesia whose work mainly focuses on music, politics, international relations and communication studies.
The fact that it happens and how it happens are two different things; I'm still learning about both.
The criminalisation of LGBT communities takes on a more potent tenor in a vote before parliament on Wednesday istory seems to be repeating itself in Indonesia. Same beats, same choruses, same incendiary statements, same rebuttals. The Indonesian government is about to deliver a fresh blow to its LGBTI communities.
CONTRIBUTED REPORTING, JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia is placing prohibitive restrictions on the sale of e-cigarette materials, and Trade Minister Enggartiasto Lukita last week offered an easy solution for the growing number of citizens using the products.
As anti-LGBT sentiment grows in Indonesia - with proposals to criminalise gay sex and public condemnations from government ministers - young Jakartans share stories of discrimination and hopes for the future The year 2016 seems to have provided a helping hand for the increasing discrimination against Indonesia's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
Explore the questionable legality and undeniable influence of Indonesia's Yess Records
Walau bijak, Saaman bin Paidjan rela dihukum mati, meninggalkan ibunya yang kehilangan akal sehat saat menunggu anak kesayangannya pulang. Begitupun keempat adiknya. Sambil menunggu ajal, ia menulis surat untuk orang di rumah. Kepada adiknya yang paling kecil, Hasan, ia berpesan, "Engkaupun harus juga mencari penghasilan. Belajar mencari penghasilan, maksudku.
Stanley Widianto is too young to recall the last time Indonesians turned on their Chinese neighbours, but seeing Jakarta's Chinese Indonesian governor jailed by a court this year was a jolting reminder of the official prejudice his own father had to overcome
The vaults of Sinematek Indonesia. Photo by author The scene was something out of a disaster movie. Thousands of films, some of them classics by Indonesian directors like Usmar Ismail and Teguh Karya, were packed onto the shelves of the humid basement. One of the room's two air conditioners had stopped working and remained broken.
To crack down on the country's epidemic of child sexual abuse, the Indonesian government proposed extreme sentences-which many say are human rights violations.
A 24-year-old woman lies with her wrist and ankle chained to a platform bed at Bina Lestari healing center in Central Java. After her husband abandoned her and their five-year-old daughter to marry someone else, she began to experience depression. Photos by Andrea Star Reese.
In the most recent issue of Soe Tjen Marching's politics and culture magazine "Bhinneka," the academic and writer speaks to several survivors of Indonesia's horrific anti-communist purge in the late 60s.
The hashtag was offensive enough. #TolakLGBT has been trending in Indonesia in recent weeks, and in Bahasa Indonesia, "tolak" means reject. Then this week Muslim activists held a rally against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights with the message: "LGBT is a disease, not a human right".
In an effort to combat illegal downloading and musical piracy, the Indonesian government recently shut down 22 music downloading websites. This may have pleased the Indonesian Association of Artists, Singers, Composers and Recording Businessmen (PAPPRI), who claim piracy has cost the industry Rp 4 trillion (AU$386 million) annually since 2007, but it hasn't affected the pirated CD street vendors of Jakarta.
Frau, the Yogyakarta-based duo, recently played two spectacular shows - dubbed Konser Tentang Rasa (Concert about Senses) - enchanting hundreds of audience members at the Gedung Kesenian Jakarta playhouse. The performance was the third time the respected singer-songwriter Leilani Hermiasih, who is better known as Lani, has played a show under that title.
Staffan Ulmert will let you know if and when an album has leaked. His site Has It Leaked is like the Neighborhood Watch of musical leaks which according to the official website aims to mediate between fans and labels.
Following an International People's Tribunal on Indonesia's 1965 massacre, which accused the Indonesian government of murder and torture and which Vice President Jusuf Kalla dismissed as " drama", Stanley Widianto talks to Joshua Oppenheimer - acclaimed director of two films dealing with the violence and its consequences, The Act of Killing (Jagal) and The Look of Silence (Senyap).
Images: Dawid Laskowski Earlier this year Indonesia went into a mild frenzy when English electronic rock duo Arkana released a cover of the beloved Indonesian folk song "Kebyar Kebyar" to commemorate the 70th-anniversary of the country's independence.