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Conflict between Timorese youth gangs and martial arts groups hark back to the Indonesian occupation James Scambary    Graf...

Violence at the National Monument in Jakarta almost caused a conflict between Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah in Lamongan Nathan Franklin ...

Hindu-Muslim tensions have mounted, but not to boiling point Lene Pedersen    Bali is famed for its Hindu cul...

Chinese Indonesians reflect on their place in the new Indonesia Michele Ford and Jemma Purdey     Chinese Indonesians a...

Challenges remain for Chinese Indonesians 10 years after reformasi Jemma Purdey     A social gap? Beggars gather outsid...

Chinese Indonesians play asylum roulette in the United States Damai Sukmana     ‘Asylum Roulette’     dargo...

Glodok: A photo essay Monika Swasti Winarnita  In the wake of the riots in May 1998 and the revelation that more than one hundred rapes –...

The people of Poso are rebuilding their lives. Sue Useem    The smashing of alcohol to mark the beginning of ...

Is Indonesia a 'tinder-box'? A potential Bosnia in Southeast Asia? Or is it essentially peaceful, but someone is stirring the pot, perhaps to ...

The East Timorese resistance movement also committed crimes. Gerry van Klinken In early January 1976, as Indonesian troops were advancing into ...

Links between corruption and violence in Poso Dave McRae On 28 May 2005, two bombs exploded in Tentena market, Poso district, killing 22 people ...

Bugis IDPs have travelled as warriors, farmers, fishers and traders Greg Acciaioli The recent surge of IDPs (internally displaced persons) in In...

Building trust through trade in Ambon Abubakar Riry and Mashudi Noorsalim When riots broke out in Ambon in January 1999 and spread throughout ...

Those who support the Acehnese should not support GAM Kirsten E Schulze Since the 1999 referendum in East Timor and subsequent independence of t...

Ethnic relations in West Kalimantan are marked with blood Mary Somers Heidhues In West Kalimantan, people like to speak of the ‘three pillarsâ...

In search of honest, well-designed aid for people displaced by the Poso conflict Lorraine V. Aragon In search of honest, well-designed aid for p...

Indonesian journalists attend a peace journalism training workshop in Manado Jake Lynch Indonesian journalists have the advantage over most of t...

Sending Troops is not Going to Solve Regional Conflicts Douglas Kammen Indonesia is presently faced with large-scale conflicts in the regions of...

A new security force in Bali is cloaked in tradition Degung Santikarma Two months ago, I received an e-mail from a Western friend living in Ba...

Homegrown security forces wield great power in Lombok John M. MacDougall It was mid-October, 1998, in Malang, East Java. I was sitting in a frie...