Digital Methodologies
Provisional panel details for the Digital Methodologies Symposium at Coventry 25.5.25 (booking here)
Sukatani Censored
Resty Woro Yuniar, SCMP, Indonesian punk band’s apology for anti-police song sparks outcry over perceived censorship, 27 Feb 2025. “Sukatani, a punk rock duo hailing from Purbalingga in Central Java,...
New and noted: Islamic preachers in contemporary Indonesia
Raya, M.K.F. Digital Islam: new space for authority and religious commodification among Islamic preachers in contemporary Indonesia. Cont Islam (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-024-00570-z From the abstract: “This study found that digital media platforms...
Vote Counting App
Michelle Anindya, Rest of World, Indonesia rushed out a vote-counting app for this year’s election. It did not go well, 28 May 2024. “Tabulation discrepancies were blamed on technical...
Indonesian Influencers
Michelle Anindya, Rest of World, Indonesia taps influencers to convince people to move to its new, under-construction capital, 19 Apr 2024. “With more than half of Indonesia’s population of...
Youth Vote Strategies
“For first-time voter 18-year-old Nafis Athallah, the election is everywhere. There are banners on the roads, pavements, and even outside homes, and his social media feed has been transformed...
TikToker Jailed
BBC News, Indonesia: TikToker jailed for two years over pork video, 20 Sep 2023 “Many conservative groups across the country also issued rulings calling the video blasphemous. They included...
Recent Research: HTI and FPI in West Java and Banten
MT Rahman, Post-Prohibition Da’wah of Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia and Islamic Defenders Front – Ilmu Dakwah: Academic Journal for Homiletic Studies, 2023 Another article for the Reading List. Abstract (extract):...
Voice of Baceprot
Matt Mills, Guardian, ‘Music lets us be the real versions of ourselves’: Indonesian Muslim metalheads Voice of Baceprot, 17 July 2023 “With sturdy riffs and Rage Against the Machine-style...