Jemma Purdey

2 weeks ago | indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au | Jemma Purdey

In March this year parcels containing a pig’s head and the carcasses of dead rats were sent to the offices of Tempo magazine in Jakarta. The story made international headlines and led to an outpouring of support and condemnation from across Indonesia’s mediascape and public more broadly. Known for its deep investigative reporting the magazine’s chief editor described the brazen threat on its journalists as an act of terrorism.

1 month ago | indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au | Jemma Purdey

On 28 March 2025, in downtime Jakarta across from the Sarinah department store, an unlikely group of protesters gathered holding signs and making speeches. The crowd largely consisted of middleclass women of various ages, gathered under the name ‘Suara Ibu Indonesia’ (Voices of Indonesian Mothers).

2 months ago | insideindonesia.org | Jemma Purdey

The Djojohadikusumo family has claimed the ultimate prize, and its next generation are going to make the most of it Jemma Purdey Dressed in celebratory batik, the family gathered in the nondescript hotel ballroom resembles any other coming together for an anniversary or reunion. But this was no ordinary family. And the celebration was marking something altogether extraordinary. The Djojohadikusmo family had finally reached its zenith.

2 months ago | insideindonesia.org | Yatun Sastramidjaja |Jemma Purdey

The legislative, presidential and regional head elections in 2024 revealed old patterns and new trends in ongoing challenges to Indonesia’s democracy Yatun Sastramidjaja Indonesia’s election year – with legislative and presidential elections held on 14 February 2024, and regional head elections on 28 November 2024 – was a critical test case for Indonesia’s democracy, and according to many the outcome did not bode well.

2 months ago | indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au | Jemma Purdey

Amid Indonesia’s conservative turn, the moral panics of the 2010s and the introduction of the draconian Criminal Code in 2022, LGBTQI+ people are as vulnerable as at any time in the country’s modern history. In a nation with the world’s largest Muslim population and where religion plays a central role in defining belonging and nationalism, the identities of queer Indonesian Muslims provide valuable insight into how these subjectivities are negotiated in everyday life.