The orang pendek is the stuff of legends in Sumatra. It's a bipedal ape-like creature first recorded in Western literature by Dutch colonialists back in the late 1800s. The creature is sort of like a miniature bigfoot and, just like its larger North American cousins, the orang pendek has obsessed local crypto-zoologists for decades. But for Dally there's no doubt—the orang pendek are out there. He finances his trips into the forest on his own, striking out to interview local indigenous peoples

The "farm-to-table" concept is all about knowing the source of your food. But what if that source is under attack? One Jakarta-based collective is forcing diners to confront that very question with a series spotlighting the farmlands and communities that are under threat from development and big business. The collective recently held its first themed dinner at the test kitchen of the nation's largest food distributor PT Sukanda Djaya, offering diners a five-course meal made from ingredients sou

The first Onitsuka Tiger basketball sneaker hit the market in Japan way back in the 1950s. It looked like a weird Chuck Taylor knockoff with tiny octopus-like suction cup things on the sole. In the decades that followed, ASICS, Onitsuka Tiger's parent company, turned the sneaker into one of the world's most iconic running shoes. In Indonesia, two men, Theng Tjhing Djie and Liog Hian Fa, registered a logo that looks a lot like the one used by Onitsuka Tiger in the 1994 for their own sneaker comp

The residents of Pasar Ikan are starting to rebuild, moving out of military surplus tents into new cinderblock houses set up on top of their demolished homes after opposition candidates Anies Baswedan and Sandiaga Uno won the Jakarta gubernatorial election. The community, a part of Luar Batang, North Jakarta, became emblematic of the controversial slum clearing policies of ousted Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama and a flashpoint in the movement to topple the governor, a man popularly know

This post originally appeared on VICE Indonesia Indonesia instituted a nationwide ban on the sale of beer at minimarts in 2015, ending a culture of late-night convenience store drinking seemingly overnight in a move that critics called a poorly thought out olive branch to conservative Islamic political parties. Now, more than two years later, reports are showing that the ban has done more harm than good. By making beer harder to get, some Indonesian drinkers have shifted their consumption to

There are two ways to describe "pornography" in Indonesia: pornografi, which is, you know, porn, and pornoaksi, which is almost anything "indecent." Bali-based photographer Angga Pratama has had his work called both. Angga has been, perhaps unfairly, stereotyped as a man who only photographs nude, or semi-nude young women. It's a trend these days, with Instagram full of so-called fashion photographers who seem to post photos where the only "fashion" on display is somewhere on the floor. But Ang

"I could bomb a clean spot, and three weeks later in the same spot and there's new handstyles, new names," SEND7 says. "When you go around Jakarta, the effect is amazing because now every meter you see [paint] streaks on the walls, even if they're toys, but graffiti is more alive than ever." The BTV021 crew (or BTV for short) was founded by DARTE1 and the late CNGR, along with other guys from their same neighborhood: YUK07, HAPZ, TIROE1, NELI4, FAKER, BAKE, KAJE, DOEMS, and SEND7. SEND7 and the