Pengunjuk rasa yang tergabung dalam Komite Perjuangan Perempuan (KPP) Yogyakarta melakukan aksi di kawasan Tugu Pal Putih, Yogyakarta. ANTARA FOTO/Hendra Nurdiyansyah/aww/16.

Bagaimana jurnalis perempuan memperjuangkan kesetaraan gender: antara jurnalisme dan advokasi

Penelitian dua tahun kami menunjukkan bagaimana penulis dan jurnalis perempuan menggunakan platform daring untuk terlibat dalam aktivisme gender, dan bagaimana cara mereka menghadapi tantangan dan kesempatan yang ada melalui media digital.
A protester wears a mask of the late Marsinah at a rally demanding justice for the female labour activist who was killed during the rule of Indonesia’s New Order government. ANTARA FOTO/Hendra Nurdiyansyah/aww/16.

How Indonesian female journalists take part in gender activism: the line between journalism and advocacy

Our two-year study explores how female writers and journalists use online platforms to engage in gender activism, and how they navigate the challenges and opportunities that come with digital media.
Nomor baju pemain Brisbane Roar Ivan Franjic terlihat copot pada pertandingan AFC Champions League antara Brisbane Roar dan Ceres Negros FC di Queensland Sports and Athletics Centre di Brisbane, Australia, Selasa, January 23, 2018. AAP Image/Dave Hunt

Nasib klub sepak bola Australia milik Bakrie dan kisah nomor kaos lepas

Di tengah-tengah pertandingan, nomor baju para pemain terkelupas dari baju-baju seragam mereka.
The shirt numbers of Brisbane Roar player Ivan Franjic are seen to dislodge during the Preliminary Stage 2 AFC Champions League match between the Brisbane Roar and Ceres Negros FC at the Queensland Sports and Athletics Centre in Brisbane, Tuesday, January 23, 2018. AAP Image/ Dave Hunt

Teflon tycoons and sticky‑taped kits as club unravels – but you won’t read about it in Jakarta

The Brisbane Roar’s woes are the least of the Bakrie Group’s concerns, writes Nasya Bahfen.
Germany’s Sami Khedira has the option of citing the travel exemption during Ramadan. EPA/Srdjan Suki

Ramadan and the World Cup coincide … but it’s no big deal

The World Cup and Ramadan – the ninth month of the Muslim year, during which strict fasting is observed from sunrise to sunset – last clashed in 1986. This year they did so again in spectacular fashion…
Unfair: only girls will be subject to the ‘virginity tests’. Indrani Soemardjan via Creative Commons

Planned virginity tests ignore reality for Indonesia’s youth

For news editors, this is a dream story - an outlying part of a democratic and moderate Muslim-majority country proposes something out of the dark ages. Under the plan put forward by the education board…
Bodies are prepared for a mass funeral at Houla, Syria on the weekend.

Syria, social media and the failure of our collective memory

While the photos currently coming out of Houla look like scenes of an apocalypse, anyone with Syrian friends or connections has seen equally horrifying videos and photos circulating on Facebook or Youtube…
Kony 2012’s “Cover the Night” Flickr/Susrutac

Cover the Night and the missed opportunities of Kony 2012

The latest instalment of the saga of the Kony 2012 movement, “Cover the Night”, launches this evening. Comedian Aamer Rahman summed up the rise and implosion of the Kony2012 campaign when he said people…
Iranian soccer players cry after FIFA cancels their match due to the nature of their headware. EPA

Storm in a headscarf: FIFA was wrong to ban hijabs in soccer

Five years after ruling against the wearing of headscarves by female football players, the sport’s world governing body FIFA has taken initial steps to lift the hijab ban. In March 2012, the International…
The AFL is throwing everything is has at Greater Western Sydney. AAP/Paul Millar

Bridging codes: football and Islam in western Sydney

The 2012 AFL debut of the GWS Giants is the culmination of efforts by the powerful, cashed up body that administers Aussie Rules to make inroads into the rugby league-obsessed, poor and predominantly refugee…

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