There is a place in Riau, a province of Indonesia, that you wouldn’t think of visiting on a trip. One of those places that doesn’t pop up first when you google “where to go” or “what to do and see.” You might think it’s...
Indonesia
Marj Ostani
Dealing with Bipolar Disorder: My Personal Story
It was the year 2005 and I was fifteen years old the first time it happened. I woke up in a hospital, surrounded by my parents, my relatives, and even my estranged older brother. I was not fully conscious yet, but I...
Magdalene
Yuli Ismartono: Indonesia Journalist Turned Media Entrepreneur Talks of ASEAN
For Yuli Ismartono, Founder and CEO of AsiaViews, age didn’t matter to make dreams a reality. AsiaViews was a monthly complementary addition to the well-known Indonesian magazine Tempo English, which Yuli brought...
Guest Writer
Jakarta Feminist Discussion Group Talks About Women’s March Jakarta
Indonesian Feminism in the Social Media Era Jakarta Feminist Discussion Group (JFDG) began as a Facebook group in 2014. In roughly 4 years, its membership has grown to more than 2,000 members and 50 volunteers...
Yenni Kwok
Ask Madge: “My Date Doesn’t Want to Settle Down, Should I Sleep with Him Anyway?”
Dear Madge, I am a 23 years old woman and I’m currently seeing someone. We met through the internet, I know to some people it sounds unbelievable to meet someone from there but to be honest we are connected to...
Ask Madge: “Help! I Have no Self-Confidence”
Dear Madge, I need your help. I’m not confident and I’m not brave. It’s not that I’m scared about ghost or anything like that, but I’m not good enough at standing up for myself. I...
Gayatri Rajapatni: The Queen Mother of the Majapahit Empire
The tropical climate of Indonesia eats away at parchment and paper and wood and even stone, erasing our memory of ancestors and the world they built. Even so, some names come to us across the centuries. One of those...
April Editors
Indonesia is built on diversity. So is Feminism.
[agg-ad id=”14519″ align=”left”] If you pass through Tulungagung District, East Java, in Indonesia, you may see the famous bus terminal called Gayatri Terminal. The terminal is strategically...
Dea Safira Basori
Laksmi Pamuntjak: literary force of Indonesia talks of female ambiguity and “Asian literature” in the West
[agg-ad id=”14519″ align=”left”] When Laksmi Pamuntjak published her first volume of poems, Ellipsis, Herald UK selected it as one of the best books of 2005. She has written for Indonesian weekly...
Yeseul Park
How to change a folktale in Indonesia for gender equality
Once upon a time in a land far, far away, a baby girl was born to a prominent man’s wife. Unfortunately, the man was ashamed to have a girl, as a daughter could not inherit a man’s wealth in that era. Being enraged, he...