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

Bali-based NGOs are an important part of Indonesia’s growing sustainable agriculture movement Nicola Edwards    A farmer...

Despite attempts to re-engineer Indonesia’s governance mechanisms, corruption remains a chronic problem Luky Djani    ‘...

Living with the Lapindo disaster Sarah Rennie Bambang’s real life nightmare began on 28 May 2006 when the mining company Lapindo was dr...

Bunaken National Marine Park is promoted as an ideal mix of tourism and conservation, but not all local people agree. Leila Sievanen   ...

Reintegration funds have caused problems as well as solving them. Blair Palmer    Now looking for new jobs  William Nessen...

In Aceh and Timor, violence remains an attractive option for men even after the peace Jacqueline A Siapno On a recent visit to Aceh, I was struc...

Rebuilding after an earthquake takes local initiatives as well as aid. Anton Lucas By the time Muhammad Idham Samawi, the popular bupati (distri...

The 27 May earthquake shook a kingdom, not just a city. Phil King South central Java was the subject of media frenzy over the heightened activi...

Universal access to treatment is not just a dream Chris W Green Yuni was diagnosed HIV-positive in 1997. In 2002, she suffered a severe bout of ...

Aid must embrace social change Bob Muntz Indonesians are now better fed and housed than at any time since independence sixty years ago. Internat...

Aid works best when it seeks to confront social injustice Bob Muntz In 1966 Indonesia was one of the poorest countries in the world, but over the...

Foreign policy not poverty reduction drives the Australian aid program Tim O’Connor Indonesia has been a major focus of the Australian aid pro...

NGOs and local people work together to rebuild communities, until feudalism intervenes Leonard Simanjuntak In August 2005 an NGO tsunami reconst...

Much aid comes with strings attached – crippling loan repayments, exploitation of resources and vulnerability to unfriendly international markets ...

Who should call the shots – international donors or local NGOs? Bob Muntz I have worked for fifteen years in the aid industry. It has been a g...

As reconstruction moves into high gear, it’s time to listen to tsunami victims Andrew Thornley Politics and aid are awkward bedfellows, but in...

International agencies need to take the time to understand local groups Linda Mylle The meeting hall was packed with representatives of the worl...

Journal of an Aceh volunteer Edward Aspinall These excerpts come from the diary Ed Aspinall kept while in Aceh after the tsunami. 4–6 Janua...

Western security agendas have shifted donor priorities, forcing NGOs to rethink their own agendas Joel Backwell In Australia we see members of N...

Surfers rally to help the people of the Mentawai Islands Tim Baker The Mentawai Islands, off the coast of Sumatra, were discovered by surfers in...