In the Indonesian online sphere, illustrators who are invested in railway history have begun reimagining train stations ...

Before BTS made K-pop mainstream globally, there was me: a teenager from the United States who fell in love with Indonesian music and became a Sahabat NOAH, the equivalent of BTS’s Army.

In 2024, Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) quietly disbanded. This news drew far less public attention than when the terrorist organisation was in the international spotlight following the 2002 Bali bombings.

We stood beneath a coconut palm, its fronds swaying above an alang-alang field. Dayu Mas looked toward the Petanu river and said, ‘This place listens.’ It was 1983. We had been speaking for weeks ...

mengingatkan pengunjung tentang arus sejarah yang tetap mempengaruhi Timor-Leste hingga saat ini. Berkendara kurang lebih sejam ke arah selatan Dili, dengan mendaki jalanan berliku, kita kemudian akan ...

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, formerly a Portuguese colony, on 7 December 1975. The invasion marked the beginning of a 24-year annexation of East ...

Statue of Nicolau Lobato, Dili, inaugurated in May 2014 /Lia Kent. The search for the missing continues Over the past few years, as part of a research project, I have listened to many East Timorese ...

In 1979, Jose da Costa was three years old when he was captured by the Indonesian army together with his family up in the mountains where - like hundreds of thousands of other Timorese - they were ...

What might Indonesia have achieved if it had not occupied East Timor? As an Indonesian who always sympathised with Timor-Leste’s independence struggle, I once thought its freedom was an impossible ...

On a late morning in 2022, I balanced on the back of a friend’s motorbike as we wound our way through the dusty streets of Atambua Selatan, West Timor, toward the weekly market. By the time we parked, ...

Puisi ini berfokus pada sepatu boot tua yang bisa diinterpretasikan sebagai figur pejuang lama yang memiliki peran monumental dalam perjuangan Timor-Leste. Ini adalah sebuah alegori politik yang ...