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The Wallace Line: Indonesia’s Invisible Animal Border

Stand on the beach in Bali and you might spot a wild boar or a species related to Asian deer.

Fifty years after Borobudur rose from the Central Java plains as a monument to Buddhism, a rival dynasty answered with

Long before “Indonesia” existed as a modern nation-state, a single East Javanese kingdom came remarkably close to unifying the entire

At 10 AM on a Friday morning in August 1945, a single reading of a short, deliberately understated statement changed

Three and a half centuries is a long time for one nation to shape another — long enough to leave

For centuries, one of the largest religious monuments ever built simply vanished — swallowed by jungle, buried under volcanic ash,