No. 64 Oct - Dec 2000

Culture

Naked truth
       Young artists rebel against the political crisis - M Dwi Marianto

Letter from Makassar
       Artists rebuild community identity - Halim HD

Confused?
       Directions in post-New Order theatre - Lauren Bain

Punks for peace
       Underground music - the voice of young people - Jo Pickles

Of pigs, puppets and protest
       Radical Yogyakarta artists get among the people - Heidi Arbuckle

Skin signatures
       Tattoos are the fad of today's teenagers - Megan Baker

Meet Semsar
       An interview with an artist and activist - Yvonne Owens with Semsar Siahaan

The Theft of Sita
       A joint Australian-Indonesian performance bursts boundaries - Robin Laurie

Politics and Human Rights

View from the top
       Exclusive interview with the president - Greg Barton with Abdurrahman Wahid

Making Indonesia work for the people
       Chusnul Mar'iyah thrives on controversy - Peter King

Busy girl
       Chusnul Mar'iyah and the NGO scene - Peter King

Women and the war in Aceh
       Women want to silence all the guns - Suraiya Kamaruzzaman

A different freedom
       Islamic rebellion in Aceh and Mindanao is not so irrational - Jacqueline Aquino Siapno

Blood on the map
       A conference on recent violence in Indonesia - Jemma Purdey

Society and Economy

Land for the landless
       Why 'democrats' in Jakarta aren't interested in land reform - Dianto Bachriadi

'Run my child'
       Mukti-Mukti sings protest songs about land - Anton Lucas

Travel

One Crater
       Sulphur miners risk their lives on an active volcano - Ciaran Harman

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