- Ethnomusicology.
- Food
- The bit where I have spent the most time: Daerah Sunda
1 Culture
Customary Practices of Musyawarah Mufakat: An Indonesian Style of Consensus Building (Anggita and Hatori 2020).
2 Online shopping
Online shopping is a big thing in Indonesia, finally.
- Lazada
- elevenia
- Batik Keris has an online store 😻
It’s hard to get Indonesian merchants to ship to Australia. The Indonesian economy isn’t internationally open, at least not at our scale as consumers. reshipping can help. I tried vPost, now defunct. Shopnship may be next.
3 Podcasts
English-language podcasts about Indonesia:
The Indonesian-language podcast industry is vast and beyond my scope here.
4 Media
5 Censorship
6 Politics
Indonesia has historically played rough when it comes to power, with the Suharto dictatorship massacring on an industrial scale.
They are gone now, in favour of a robust public sphere, but it can still be a blood sport.
7 References
Anggita, and Hatori. 2020. “Customary Practices of Musyawarah Mufakat: An Indonesian Style of Consensus Building.” IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science.