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A Free Aceh Movement flag, right, flies alongside the Indonesian national flag during a rally outside the Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh on Aug. 15, 2026. Reza Saifullah/AFP via Getty Images

21 years after disaster helped bring peace to Aceh – has botched Indonesian response to floods reignited calls for independence?

A decades-long insurgency in the Indonesian province ended after 2004’s devastating tsunami. But pro-independence talk is on the rise again.
A paan vendor in Calcutta preparing a mixture of tobacco and betel nut on a betel leaf. Alamy

Ancient teeth reveal the Ice Age origins of the world’s 4th most common addictive drug

Betel nut is the fourth most-used psychoactive drug in the world – and new evidence suggests it was being used in Indonesia as long as 25,000 years ago.
Female Tapanuli and Baby Batang Toru Male Tapanuli Orangutan. Credit Andrew Walmsley for SOS

Multiple threats endanger the world’s rarest great ape, a new study on the Tapanuli orangutan reveals

Multiple pressures are acting simultaneously in threatening Tapanuli orangutan — from extractive industries to logging to agricultural expansion and, increasingly, climate-related disasters.
Opioid illustration. Towfiqu barbhuiya / Pexels

Pain and the struggle for relief: How fear influences patient access to medical opioids

Patients in Indonesia cannot access medical opioids because the government fears drug misuse.
Australia-Indonesia Centre and Universitas Hasanuddin held the PAIR Sulawesi Annual Summit in Makassar, South Sulawesi (20-23 July 2026), connecting researchers with policymakers and the business community. Courtesy of Australia-Indonesia Centre

How a research program in Sulawesi is narrowing Indonesia’s research‑policy gap

A research program is narrowing Indonesia’s research-policy gap in Sulawesi. But the island’s blue economy vision is colliding with Jakarta’s nickel ambitions.
As students embrace AI, higher education must move from resistance to instruction. Andrew_t8/Pixabay

Stop policing AI in the classroom, start teaching it

Universities’ crackdown on the use of AI misses the point. They should instead teach it as a vital productivity tool, undepinned by ethics.

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