Labour Rights
A new tactical toolkit
The labour movement successfully adopted new tactics in their campaign for social security reform
Leaving Indonesia
Passports optional
Oppressed and they know it
Learning to lead
Politics of symbolism
Unionists express their disgust at local government’s failure to look after the interests of workers
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.
Myth of the effective little NGO
Making idealism work is very hard. NORI ANDRIYANI, with extraordinary honesty, tells why.
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.
Gone fishing
AHMAD SOFIAN explores the lives of young people on hundreds of isolated fishing platforms in the Malacca Straits
An unlikely unionist
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
