After putting female-led Asian genre cinema on the global map with ‘Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts,” Indonesian auteur Mouly Surya has stepped into the big time. On the studio level, she is putting ...

Last month, Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo formally acknowledged 12 episodes of historical human rights violations by government agencies between 1965 and 2003. Chief among the atrocities ...

Surabaya Office Malaysia and Indonesia are currently embroiled in an amicable dispute over land boundaries in the Sumatra and ...

The Indonesian government's plans to issue new history books have sparked fears that mention of deadly riots in 1998 targeting mostly ethnic Chinese in the country will be scrubbed from the text. The ...

In the tumultuous years of the early 1980s, a young Indonesian military officer took part in a series of combat operations in East Timor, then under Indonesian occupation. During one military campaign ...

AS THE ASIAN financial crisis swept through Indonesia in 1997, the IMF offered the country a bail-out. It was thought that the loan would help Indonesia to turn the page quickly. After all, Suharto, ...

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), wrapped over the weekend, having shone a spotlight on the Indonesian cinema and film industry. That focus came on the back of a co-production ...

Acclaimed film-making duo Kamila Andini and Ifa Isfansyah take a calculatedly side-on approach to Indonesian societal history in “Cigarette Girl,” a new Netflix series that releases on Nov.1 and which ...