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COVID-19: The politics of local responses in Indonesia

  • Trissia Wijaya,

Indonesia has been widely criticised for a weak national response to COVID-19. But sub-national governments have also played an important role.

COVID-19, women and digitised food networks in Jakarta: Inequality and resilience

  • Dr Inaya Rakhmani, Dr Ariane Utomo, Dr Catherine Phillips, Dr Diahhadi Setyonaluri,

COVID-19 has highlighted the need for informal food networks and the essential role that women play in creating and sustaining them.

INTERVIEW: COVID-19 will set back the cause of women’s rights in Indonesia

  • Atnike Nova Sigiro,

Work on gender quality, such as the Draft Law on the Elimination of Sexual Violence, is made more difficult by coronavirus.

Indonesia is exploiting the COVID-19 crisis for illiberal purposes

  • Rafiqa Qurrata A'yun, Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir,

The COVID-19 crisis in Indonesia has become a means for elites to further accumulate power and money.

The use of the term LGBT in Indonesia and its real-world consequences. (中文)

  • Associate Professor Michael Ewing,

There’s been a dramatic shift toward public anti-LGBT discourse in Indonesia.