Indonesia

Indonesia is a vast country in maritime southeast Asia, spanning more 17,000 islands in a vast archipelago. Its population is more than 270 million, making it the fourth-largest country by population in the world. Over half its population lives on the island of Java. Indonesia was a dictatorship for much of the latter half of the 20^th century, and still today it is criticised for its repressive tactics against national minorities, like the West Papuans and (decades ago) the East Timorese, who never wanted to be part of Indonesia and were subsumed into it by force. Indonesia is one of Australia’s closest neighbours, geographically, so lots of Australians go on holidays there, and lots of Indonesians come here for work or study.

Wiki

• 2022-04-28: 🪴 West Papua: West Papua is a region consisting of the western half of the island of Papua. Since the 1960s, it has been under the …
• 2022-02-25: 🪴 1965 coup in Indonesia: Let’s begin by establishing the context, before the coup. In the late 1940s, Indonesia was a newly independent …
• 2022-02-25: 🪴 Indonesian Communist Party: The Indonesian Communist Party (PKI, after its Indonesian initials) is the oldest Communist Party in Asia, founded in …

Links

• 2022-04-28: 🇮🇩 Link: “Suharto’s Old Guard Is Still Calling the Shots in Indonesia”

Book Reviews

• 2020-04-22: 📚 Book review: Home by Leila S. Chudori (★★★★)

Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.