Sixty-seven residents of Wadas Village were arrested after opposing an andesite quarry for the Bener Dam in Central Java. A total of 518 families were evicted to make way for Yogyakarta International Airport. At least 33,626 students across Indonesia suffered food poisoning from the Free Nutritious Meals program. In South Papua, 543,575 hectares of forest land are set to be released for a food and energy estate. What do these cases have in common? They…
Thousands of rotational soldiers move in and out of Papua. They fight, guard state projects, and leave civilians under a seemingly endless shadow of guns. Papua now hosts 74,297 soldiers. Of those, 17,780 are rotational troops drawn from across Indonesia. The cost of mobilizing them and sustaining their operations in Papua is estimated at Rp2.34 trillion (around US$129.5 million) a year. The density of military and police personnel in Papua is about…
Residents around the Bantaeng Industrial Park must live with thick dust and the constant roar of nickel smelters that are steadily damaging their health and the environment. The “national strategic project” the government promotes as a road to prosperity has instead become a source of seemingly endless hardship.Ambo Ambo Enre, 77, has witnessed every change that has come to Papanloe village in Pa’jukukang, Bantaeng. Since the Bantaeng Industrial Park began operating, he…
Four soldiers have been convicted over the acid attack on human rights activist Andrie Yunus. But Project Multatuli’s investigation found signs of a wider intelligence operation, with more suspects,…
For the Indonesian media, there’s one key difference between the Jokowi and Prabowo administrations: the former monitored newsrooms from the outside, whereas the latter has people watching from within. …
Indonesia’s plastic crisis no longer ends at the landfill or the market. Recent studies have detected microplastics in rainwater, urban air, and human biological samples. This raises a harder question:…
Trigger warning: The story contains descriptions of digital sexual abuse and violence. AI tools are making it easier to create sexualized images without consent while victims face real-world consequences and…
