Inside Indonesia - a quarterly magazine on Indonesia and its people, culture, politics, economy and environment

Essays, reflections and poetry on East Timor, 1999-2010

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People in rural Papua are more interested in basic services than grand political struggles

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Suspected communists who survived the killings of 1965-66 in South Sulawesi spent the next 20 years working for the military in an isolated jungle camp

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Personal reflections on an ongoing challenge

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Meaningful dialogue about the future of Papua requires that Indonesians and Papuans honestly address the past

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Reflecting on the Act of Free Choice and the integration of West Papua into Indonesia

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Indonesia’s claim to sovereignty over West Papua rests upon an unsound legal basis

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There are big dangers in declaring success too soon

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Chinese Indonesians must re-enter politics in order to fully exercise their citizenship

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The story of the Teochiu Huikuan building in Medan provides insights into Chinese Indonesians’ history of dispossession

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This edition of Inside Indonesia marks an important anniversary, and explores the multiple faces of Indonesian Papua today

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Special autonomy and Papuan aspirations have been thwarted by Jakarta and hampered by the administrative fragmentation sponsored by local politicians

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Whether Papuans support autonomy or independence, they should be allowed to speak freely

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Human rights groups report on abuses

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Political assassinations targeted West Papua’s culture and political identity

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A photo essay about families of the disappeared

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While top officials hail the Australia-Indonesia security agreement, ARTHUR KING is appalled to find that, on the ground in East Timor, youths who resist still face torture.

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KERRY BROGAN talks with two women whose husbands 'disappeared'.

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Why is it so hard to remember the evils of the past? ROB GOODFELLOW explores the pain, and the exhilaration, of memory.

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Authorities blame the recent Jakarta riots on the coalition PRD. It has hundreds of members, but military leaders liken it to the PKI of the 1960s, which had millions. Who are these 1990s activists? VANNESSA HEARMAN visited with one of the coalition partners earlier this year, and filed this inside story.

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