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…
Permata Adinda24 Jun 2026
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, stolen civilian identities, and a military trial that left key…
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. THERE was a period in April 2025 when Cica had…
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: what happens when pollution becomes something people breathe and carry…
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 live in fear. Big tech platforms, from Meta to X,…
It was still early in the morning but Dian Mardiana had been ready to take her 11 month old daughter, Yasmin, to community health center Puskesmas Babakan Tarogong in Bandung, West Java, to get a vaccine shot. This would be…
The perpetrators, according to the victims’ testimonies, were seven adult males. Warning: This article contains explicit descriptions of sexual violence that some readers may find disturbing. A SINGLE MOTHER of five reported the alleged sexual assault of her two daughters…
In Kanekes village, almost smack in the middle of Lebak regency, Banten, none of the residents wears masks. Not because they have some political or ideological aversion to them, but because they have no reason to. Unlike the rest of…
Seizure of customary land, forced conversion, social exclusion, impoverishment, and famine: these are the types of bleak stories we often hear about indigenous peoples. For centuries, those in power have systematically marginalized these groups in what is now Indonesia, often…
When Amanda Wamblolo was young, she never had any difficulties finding food. Living in Yoka, on the eastern shore of Sentani Lake in Jayapura, Papua, between an expanse of hills and dozens of rivers flowing down the Cyclops Mountains, she…
Warning: This reportage features descriptions of violence. The names of several sources have been changed to preserve their safety. In August 2022, the US District Court for the District of Columbia released the testimony of 11 victims of alleged human…
