At the same time, the book places the country’s modern history within the broader sweep of centuries of intellectual, economic, and military change. Indonesia’s trajectory to statehood was ...

Also known as The City of Heroes, Surabaya was the birthplace of modern Indonesia. It was here in 1945 where revolutionaries first proclaimed independence, challenging the Dutch rulers who had held ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Over the past decade, Joko Widodo has reinvented Indonesia’s economy to make it one of the world’s most ...