[6] Due to its links with the Northern Territory and proximity to the border, the APY Lands do not observe daylight savings unlike the rest of South Australia.

[8] Based upon the climate records of the nearest weather station at Marla Police Station, Indulkana experiences summer maximum temperatures of an average of 37.1 degrees Celsius in January and a winter maximum average temperature of 19.7 degrees Celsius in June.

It will accommodate officers with specialist response capabilities, as well provide a base for a mobile unit which will be deployed in Fregon/Kaltjiti, Indulkana and Pipalyatjara.

[18][19] The 2019–2020 Government of South Australia agency budget estimates the completion date as June 2021, with a total spend of A$4.28 million.

Indulkana is one of the two communities on the APY Lands that provides an aged care facility for elders, the other being Ernabella.

Leslie was educated at Ernabella (Pukatja) community where he learnt to read and write English and Pitjantjatjara.

As of 2013[update], Indulkana has a Youth Shed that has been supervised by Uniting Care Wesley Country SA[21][22] staff since 2011.

A permit from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara is required to access Indulkana, as the land is owned freehold by the resident Aboriginal people.

There is a long history of printmaking among local artists, and examples of their work is held in both the South Australian Museum and National Gallery of Australia.

[25] In the early 1980s, artists Alec Baker and Sadie Singer drove to Adelaide and then on to Canberra, to advocate for funding to develop facilities for a contemporary arts centre, including a printmaking workshop and painting studios.

Betty Muffler is another longtime Iwantja Arts artist and ngangkari (healer), whose work was featured in the 2020 Tarnanthi exhibition[28] as well as on the cover of the September 2020 issue of Vogue Australia.