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Creative campaigners
While material inducements to voters have been prevalent in 2014, candidates also employ innovative campaign strategies to attract support Tom Power Utut meets with...
Money politics
The distribution of money, goods and other benefits is an integral part of electioneering in Indonesia Edward Aspinall A headscarf, a prayer book, and some mementoes: a...
Prabowo and human rights
Jakarta 1998 was bad, but Prabowo likely had more blood on his hands in East Timor Gerry van Klinken Prabowo has emerged as a strong presidential candidate, despite his...
Election year
Edward Aspinall Indonesia’s legislative elections offer a window into the deep forces shaping the country, and a glimpse of its political future Indonesia is...
Saigon Ink, Tattoo in Vietnam
By: Diana van Oort After our report ‘Got Ink? Yogyakarta Tattoo Guide’ we present another story on tattoo life in South East Asia: Saigon Ink. Vietnam is not a...
Diaspora power
The main cry of the second Indonesian Diaspora Congress was ‘hidup diaspora!’ – long live the diaspora. It rang out in session after session in Jakarta from 18 to...
Floating World
Indonesian cruise ship service workers have a kind of cosmopolitan experience at sea. They seem to be good candidates for the development of a cosmopolitan outlook. They...
Impossible ideal?
Cosmopolitanism might appear to be a concept tailor-made for Indonesian conditions. Diverse peoples have lived side by side in the region for ages. Linguistic difference...
Subaltern cosmopolitans, Riau Islands
When people think of cosmopolitans, they think of jet-setting elites or the chattering classes, flitting between countries and consuming the ‘global’ through food,...
Defining the Nation? Indonesian arts
Indonesia’s participation in the Venice Biennale in 2013 sought a place for Indonesian contemporary art within the international dialogue of cosmopolitan art...
