A Beginner’s Guide to Hating Indonesia

Four Tips on Managing that Symptomatic Love-Hate Relationship…

Kemal Palevi’s Bra Prank is Everything That’s Wrong with Sexuality in Indonesia

Or, How We Severely Misunderstand Everything About Respect and Consent

Why I Stopped Believing in Character Building

Why Indonesia’s obsession of “local wisdom” and…

I can’t believe I’m writing about Internet Positif again

Dear Kemkominfo, please stop.

What Teenage Girls’ Bodies Can Tell Us About Indonesian Politics

How our gaze towards the teenage…

This Whole Mess We Call “Indonesian Censorship”

Can someone please make it stop?

Indonesia’s censorship has gotten to a point where it has become a parody of itself. On Monday (10/10), the film Automata (2014) on TransTV got the blur treatment. So…

Indonesia’s Internet Censorship, Two Years On

Slowly but surely, we’re curving away from total net…

In Defense of Violence

Or, why we should stop debating violent acts per se and start questioning the narratives around them

This Whole OM TELOLET OM Craze

And Why It Matters in the Broader Socio-Cultural Context

How to Dream in Motion Picture

A reading of “Melancholy is a Movement,” perhaps Indonesia’s most…