AIYA Links: 8 January

In the news

• Top pollster @BurhanMuhtadi looks at how realpolitik limits President Jokowi’s ambitions.
• Australian cattle producers are positive on the beef trade with Indonesia predicted to import 600,000 cows in 2016.
• From Kalimantan, Ward Berenschot investigates how local politics gets in the way of solving Indonesia’s deforestation and haze crisis.
• ABC reports on the prejudice affecting the fate of an orphanage for HIV-positive children in Surakarta.
• At a transgender-friendly mosque in Yogyakarta, the New York Times takes a look at the status of Indonesia’s waria community.

At the AIYA Blog

• Good for what ails you: a Queensland student living in Indonesia teams up with a popular healer to learn traditional massage practices.
• At AIYA Jakarta’s recent discussion on the media and the relationship, a special shoutout to the contributions of Inside Indonesia.