Work
A new tactical toolkit
The labour movement successfully adopted new tactics in their campaign for social security reform
Leaving Indonesia
Costly inducements
Eager to work
The value of children’s paid work on Lombok’s tobacco plantations presents a challenge to emotive arguments for the wholesale banning of child labour
A matter of luck
Learning to lead
Politics of symbolism
Unionists express their disgust at local government’s failure to look after the interests of workers
Sand rafts - a photo essay
Along the Opak River in Pundong, near Bantul, Yogyakarta, locals trade their sweat for a pile of sand.
Children at work
Officially, 2.4 million Indonesian children work in factories or on the streets, instead of being at school. Unofficially, the number could be 10 million. SHARON BESSELL talks with some working children, and asks what is being done.
Regulate or abolish?
Should child labour be abolished or regulated? WENDY MILLER spoke with activist ARIST MERDEKA SIRAIT during the Child Labour Conference at Melbourne's Monash University.
Colonial legacy
It may be true that Java rules Indonesia. But Javanese labourers in Sumatra, writes BUDI AGUSTONO, have been at the bottom of the heap for generations.
Post-bomb lessons
The demand for sustainable timber is colliding with the needs of Central Java farmers
Jusuf Wanandi’s memoir allows glimpses into the mindset of Suharto-era officialdom
Indonesia’s parliament is cracking down on sorcery
Recent ground-breaking publications, an internationally award-winning film and a major conference are opening up new truths about Indonesia’s past
The filmmaker explains that The Act of Killing exposes the imagination of terror
