Selected stories + case studies

Dimas’ pursuits of joining the Indonesian army was shattered when his father, an esteemed army general, prevented him. So he moved to Hawaii in the late 1990s to become a chef, only to find himself becoming an Indonesian soldier trapped in a foreign battle.

 

Unregistered Marriage | reporter, producer

(Forthcoming) When Soraya found out she was not legally married in front of the law, she decided to go to the court and send a message to her community. Around the same time, a local imam, a lawyer and a researcher trying to figure out how to prevent more “Sorayas”…and why it’s not that simple.  

Audrey Watters talks about the history’s attempts to automate the classroom and the psychologists that tried to remove emotions from education.

 

A mother and son from East Nusa Tenggara Indonesia lived through the 60s and 70s, during times of great famine and instability in Indonesia. They recount the days they were forced to radically change their diet to eating instant noodles, a mega dietary project prompted by the Cold War. 

Just before COVID lockdown hit, on a flight back to Hong Kong, MJ met the Queen. His life is never the same again. 

 

A short documentary film about the other-worldly experiences of workers who toiled on some of the major city-wide cleaning projects in New York City.

TANITA RAHMANI

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