20 Years of Reformasi
Memories of Life Under the New Order
We asked a lot of people who grew up in the 80s and 90s what life was really like back then.
TFW Everything You Loved From Childhood Reveals Itself as New Order Propaganda
A reflection on a time when pop culture was really propaganda culture.
Chinese-Indonesian Refugees Found a New Home, and New Problems, in the US
In Philadelphia, home to the second largest Indonesian American population in the US, those who escaped the riots in May 1998 are living through a period of rising anti-immigration rhetoric.
We Asked People Who Fled After the '98 Riots How They Feel About Indonesia Today
What's the country look like to them after all these years abroad?
Here's Everything I Learned From a Visit to a Museum Celebrating Suharto's Legacy
Twenty years after his fall, I went to a museum built by his family to see how they want us all to remember Indonesia's former dictator.
We Asked People Born After the Start of Reformasi What They Think of the New Order
Indonesia's Gen Z speaks up.
Reflections of May '98 Looters, Victims of the New Order's 'Organized Riots'
A week before the fall of Gen. Suharto, riots broke out in Jakarta targeting the country's ethnic Chinese communities and their businesses. Now experts say rioters and looters were tricked into escalating the unrest by the government.
The New Order Ended 20 Years Ago, But Indonesian Students Still Aren't Taught the Full Story
It's the bloodiest era of Indonesian history so far, but high school history books are leading out the worst of it.