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

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.

SUA Bali does not isolate—it listens. It does not display—it shelters. In doing so, it offers a modest answer to the forces ...

Students and youths have been instrumental in driving grassroots solidarity and activism Forms of solidarity have persisted between Indonesians and East Timorese after the restoration of Timor-Leste’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

The lia-na’in (elders) from all over Timor-Leste at the 2025 Festival Fronteira in Suai, Covalima, explaining the concepts and practices of customary law, related to conflict resolution and ...

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, ...

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

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 ...