Central Java

It's a, it's a big island.

There's East, West, and Central Java.

And, a- and at the same time, put the country deep into debt to us.

And so there I was [laughs] supposedly to do this job, and I had no idea what I was doing.

They serve, for instance, business actors.

My research during my PhD was in Solo, Central Java, and also in Medan, North Sumatra.

A lot of conflicts due to the land grabbing and then especially related to the plantation industry in North Sumatra at a time when the famous and most prominent gangsters until now in Medan and North Sumatra is Bermuda Pancasila.

Actually, there are many others conducting similar activities, providing protection and serving the interests of the plantation industry or the companies when they have conflict with local communities related to, for instance, land management, land tenure.

Um, in his twenties, he had to perform surgery to his own mom, so my great-grandma, to remove her breast cancer tumor, so they couldn't afford hospitalization.

This happened in Klaten, Central Java, Indonesia, where tempeh was first documented in the 1600s, where my grandpa was born in.

So while doing that in their basically, like, garage, he got traumatized.

He couldn't work with blood anymore.

The suspects are believed to have links to networks affiliated with the Islamic State.

Raids began on Friday in West Java, Central Java, Central Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, Riau and North Maluku.

Investigators found that suspects held online meetings to connect supporters across regions.

Some were suspected of involvement in conspiracies to commit terrorist offences.

the Wayang Wong, so the dancers, the characters in this and in a very, very contemporary style.

So I was still learning my traditional training in Central Java, but I came to Indonesia as a contemporary artist.

So we try our best to really master our traditional training first before we go into our contemporary practice.

But because I was coming from Australia, I already had a practice that I was doing here and as Indonesian diaspora.

Serving others is one of the ways I can understand what God wants me to do.

Rati S.H.17, Central Java, Indonesia, loves singing, dancing, and doing her makeup.