Talking Indonesia
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Talking Indonesia
In the Talking Indonesia podcast, Dr Jemma Purdey, Dr Jacqui Baker, Tito Ambyo and Dr Elisabeth Kramer present an extended interview each fortnight with experts on Indonesian politics, foreign policy, culture, language and more. Find all the Talking Indonesia podcasts and more at the Indonesia at Me...
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Dian Tri Irawaty - Kampung and Urban Advocacy
Dian Tri Irawaty - Kampung and Urban Advocacy by Talking Indonesia
Grace Leksana - A Re/writing History Project
A ‘re’-writing history project - Grace Leksana
Shortly after taking up his position as the Minister for Culture and Education in the Prab...
Aliansi Gusar - Overseas Responses to Indonesia's Protests
On August 25 2025, protestors took to the streets in Jakarta outside the parliament to vocalise their loss of confidence in the current parliament. Wh...
Rebecca Meckelburg: Indonesia's New Protest Movements
In late August, demonstrations against housing allowances for national parliamentarians escalated dramatically when a motorcycle delivery driver, Affa...
Clara Siagian - Rusunawa and the State
While Jakarta's eviction politics have often dominated headlines and grassroots campaigns, the experiences of those who have been relocated to rusunaw...
Diah Angendari - AI Policy in Indonesia
From the algorithms that curate your social media feed to the recommendation systems that influence what you buy, artificial intelligence is quietly r...
Ara Simanjuntak : Betting the Farm
Palm oil contributes to up 4.5% to Indonesia’s GDP and unlike other commodities, the Indonesian government promotes palm oil as motor of rural develop...
Nurwanto - School Violence and Bullying
Nurwanto Nurwanto - School Violence and Bullying
In recent months Indonesians have grown increasingly concerned and indeed outraged fol...
Justinus Lhaksana - Indonesian Football and the Road to the 2026 World Cup
Justinus Lhaksana - Indonesian Football and the Road to the 2026 World Cup
In October 2022, the image of Indonesian football filling news...
Nadia Egalita - Ethnography of Online Food Delivery
When you order food through Gojek or Grab in Indonesia, you're not just getting dinner delivered, but you're also participating in what has become a s...
Sarah Shair-Rosenfield - Women and Healthcare
Despite significant strides in recent decades, Indonesia continues to face one of Southeast Asia's higher maternal mortality rates. A recent study pub...
Evi Mariani - Media Freedom
Evi Mariani - Media Freedom
In March this year parcels containing a pig’s head and the carcasses of dead rats were sent to the offices of...
Haryo Pambuko Jiwandono - Indonesian Games and Esports
In recent years, Indonesia has experienced a remarkable transformation in its gaming landscape, with mobile esports emerging as a powerful cultural an...
Olin Monteiro - A Growing Protest Movement
A growing protest movement
On 28 March, in downtime Jakarta across from the Sarinah department store, an unlikely group of protesters gat...
Melandri Vlok - Archaeology and Reading Bones
Bones can tell us so much about the past, not just about the ancestry of modern humans (or homo sapiens) but also about the people and cultures of tim...
Citra Lestari - Engaging Marginalised Groups in Risk Communication
In Indonesia, a country prone to disasters and emergencies, effective risk communication can mean the difference between safety and vulnerability for...
Diego Garcia Rodriguez - Queer Muslims and Their Allies
Queer Muslims and Their Allies
Amid Indonesia’s conservative turn, the moral panics of the 2010s and the introduction of the draconian Cr...
Riandy Laksono - Prabonomics
This past week has seen what some have argued are the first big mobilisations of the new Prabowo government, with coordinated student protests across...
Jane Ahlstrand - The Climate Crisis and Gender Nexus
Climate Change is well-recognised as a massive challenge facing society today. It is clear that the political, economic and social consequences of cli...
Moira Tirtha - Nongkrong Festival and the Indonesian Diaspora
In Melbourne and across Australia, Indonesian diaspora communities are reimagining what it means to celebrate their cultural identity through art, foo...
Wulan Dirgantoro - Art, Activism and a Cancelled Show
Art, activism and a cancelled show - Wulan Dirgantoro
Late last year news media splashed the image of an elderly artist standing before a...
Ian Wilson - Regional Elections
Late last month, for the first time its history, Indonesia held simultaneous regional elections across 545 provinces, regencies and municipalities acr...
Vannessa Hearman - East Timor's Great Famine, 1977-1979
Vannessa Hearman - East Timor’s Great Famine, 1977-1979
Following Indonesia’s annexation of East Timor in December 1975, the forced displ...
Aristyo Darmawan - Prabowo, China and the South China Sea
About 1000km north of Jakarta is a little pocket of paradise, a sprinkle of islands called the Natuna Islands, home to less than 100,000 people.
Wayne Palmer - Foreign Workers
We often talk hear about the lives and living conditions of Indonesian migrant workers, many of them going to countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, H...
Bagus Laksono - The Papal Visit
The Papal Visit
In early September, Pope Francis visited Indonesia as part of a tour of the region. It was the third papal visit to the c...
Uji Nugroho Winardi - The History of Corruption in Indonesia
Corruption in Indonesia is widely acknowledged as a complex issue, with some even suggesting it as something that is deeply entrenched in Indonesian c...
Remco Vermeulen - Revitalisation of Dutch Colonial Urban Spaces
Some of the most challenging issues post-colonial societies face involve managing the physical remnants of their colonial histories. In Indonesia, cen...
Sujeet Ramgir - Starting A Start Up
Starting a Start Up
Starting a small business is a challenge in any context, but what about if you're a foreigner looking to establish a...
Ary Hermawan - Digital Populism
Digital Populism
Just as we were recording this podcast, the hashtag #daruratdemokrasi (democratic emergency) went viral across Indonesia...
Rebecca Meckelburg - Farming Indonesia
One of the signature campaign promises of the Prabowo Subianto presidency is free lunches and milk for Indonesian school kids. This plan is linked to...
Taufiq Rahman - Vinyl Revival In Indonesia
The Indonesian music scene is currently experiencing a vibrant period of experimentation, where musicians are blending vernacular Indonesian music tra...
Antje Missbach - Refugees Growing Up in Limbo
Antje Missbach - Refugees growing up in limbo
Indonesia is currently home to over 13,000 refugees and asylum seekers, a majority of them...
Howie Manns and Jessica Kruk - Indonesian language instruction
Teaching Indonesian as a second language comes with challenges. In Australia, there is a wide gulf between the government's rhetoric about the importa...
Bivitri Susanti - Dirty Vote
Bivitri Susanti - Dirty Vote
The frenzied final weeks of campaigning leading up to the presidential election on 14 February 2024 were pac...
John Cheong-Holdaway, Eka Poedijono and Jocelyn Tribe - Gamelan Music
In November 2023, a unique event occured. Eight gamelan groups - Gamelan DanAnda, Kacapi Suling Melbourne, Mahindra Bali Gamelan, Melbourne Community...
Anto Mohsin - Electrifying Indonesia
The talk on the street is all about electric cars and scooters as Indonesia strives to become a regional centre for manufacturing electric vehicles. A...
Kathryn Robinson - Marriage Migration and Intercultural Families
There are many things that drive migration to other countries, and one of them is romantic relationships and marriages. But Asian women who are develo...
Marina Welker - Kretek Capitalism
Indonesia has one of the highest smoking rates in the world - approximately two thirds of Indonesian men are classified as smokers. This is in spite o...
Jamie Davidson - Food Security
Indonesians have a saying that you’re not properly satisfied until you’ve eaten rice (belum kenyang kalau belum makan nasi). But in recent weeks the p...