No. 68 October-December 2001

Politics and Human Rights

Ethnic fascism in Borneo
       Old elites in Central Kalimantan discover new and dangerous strategies - Gerry van Klinken

Laskar Jihad
       A spiritual home for the lost, this militant sect is used by dangerous elites for their own ends - IRIP News Service

Mother of the nation
       For now, reformasi is dead. But Mega didn't kill it - Edward Aspinall

Radical or reformist?
       How Islamic will the new movements make Indonesia? - Bernhard Platzdasch

The return of 'Shock therapy'
       Overseas friends stand by persecuted Acehnese human rights workers - Signe Poulsen

Rewriting history

Whitlam knew
       Indonesian military intelligence kept Australia fully informed (and complicit) in its 1975 East Timor invasion plans - Paul Monk

Out of the black hole
       After the New Order, the lid on Indonesia's past is beginning to lift - Hilmar Farid

The first Asian boat people
       Strange things began to happen when Indonesian refugees came to Australia during World War II - Jan Lingard

Romo Mangun
       Tribute to a multi-talented, national figure - Catherine Mills

For kicks
       The history of football is a history of Indonesia itself - Freek Colombijn

A soldier's historian
       New Order generals needed new history books. Nugroho Notosusanto was their man. - Kate McGregor

The Suharto Museum
       What gifts did Aussie prime ministers bestow on President Suharto? - Pam Allen

Merdeka!
       Indonesian poems selected by Harry Aveling

Rebel rises from the dead
       Sulawesians believe that Qahhar, their rebel hero, has risen again - Andi Faisal Bakti

Untold stories
       On the other side of 1965 lay a vibrant Indonesia worth remembering - Ann Laura Stoler

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