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Reviews Reviews Reviews Maluku Children

The year that never ended

Oral histories of 1965

Running for office

A Christian candidate for a Muslim party in North Maluku

The Politics of Power

Denise Leith makes a significant contribution to the debate surrounding the Freeport mine

Losing the battle

Owners of customary marine tenure are fighting for their livelihoods

Human rights for kids

It’s difficult to get human rights education into Indonesian schools

Wild West TV

Televangelism comes to regional Indonesia

Peace market

Building trust through trade in Ambon

Who benefits?

For the Forest Tobelo people, regional autonomy is a mixed blessing

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Review: This book is a useful contribution to a very small body of scholarly work in English on Indonesian literature. Pam Allen

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Review: Goenawan's essays investigate the meaning of difference in many forms

Generation 98

Djenar Maesa Ayu – one of Indonesia’s exciting new female authors

Lost daughters

Underage women in the commercial sex trade

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Review: Toraja comes alive in this book through the detailed descriptions and interlinking of political, social, economic, and religious processes.

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Review: This book is an important and timely discussion of how nation, belonging, same-gender/same-sex identity and desire as well as geography all intersect in Indonesia

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Review: This book provides readers with an alternative history of Indonesia

Debating democracy

School debaters struggle against social norms to promote change.

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Review: A History of Modern Indonesia is written in eloquent prose and contains fascinating information on different eras of Indonesian history.

Ubud writers festival

New Indonesian writers receive international exposure.

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Review: Opposing Suharto

Water, land, and Suharto

Review: Both books illustrate the way the Suharto family exploited Indonesia

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