*by Fajar Junaedi and Andy Fuller
**an earlier version of this article was published on Football Fandom Indonesia.
***photos by Husin Ghozali
Resistance towards injustice can appear anywhere. The resistance to the political forces that have sought to kill off the ...
Gelora Bung Karno Stadium is one of the great Sukarno-era monuments of Jakarta. It is the home of Persija football club and also the offices of the PSSI – The Indonesian Football Federation. (Official page is here, Persija, and fans page, ...
*Guest post by Fajar Junaedi of Muhamadiyah University, Yogyakarta
**This article is a translation of Kapitalism Semu dan Kegagalan Swastanisasi Sepak Bola Indonesia.
There is a missing link in professional football in Indonesia. The combination of the Association clubs with those ...
*Originally published on Shoot Farken as “Modern Football and Urban Alienation Under the Golden Arches in Maastricht”
An underground freeway is being built on the eastern edge of Maastricht. The current site is a broad expanse of dust. Middle of the ...
Or, “The Last Day of The Season”
The weather is mild: this is an evening for t-shirts and light jackets. The train leaves for Dordrecht from Leiden at 18:30 and will stop at Schiedam Centrum more or less at 1900. This allows ...
*Thomas E. Fuller is a psychologist and photographer based in Maastricht, The Netherlands. His photos of bicycles can be found here, Love Your Bicycle.
Uncle Tony barracks for Port. Aunty Kip barracks for Port. Uncle Tony is a joker. I’m not sure of his job. I remember he gave me a Crowded House cassette when I was seven, one Christmas in Helmsedale Avenue, Glengowrie. Aunty Kip ...
PSIM, a football club based in Yogyakarta and founded in 1929, has seen better years. The club is well and truly in the second tier of the domestic competition and suffers from poor management and fan violence. The violence not only occurs ...
The Catastrophe of PSS Sleman
Sofyan, an Acehnese man, living in Yogyakarta runs a small stall by the side of Lapangan Minggiran (Minggiran Field) in the southern part of the city. His regular customers are largely ex-soccer players from the local leagues. ...