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

Pining for the certainty of the Suharto era Chris Lundry    Years after his downfall, reverence for Suharto is obvious in an ...

The arts scene has changed radically since 1998, but some of the old uncertainties remain Jennifer Lindsay   ...

Indonesia’s tangled public information laws are keeping the press in check Sebastian Dettman    Newspap...

NGOs are having to come to terms with the demands of the governance agenda Ben Davis    Don’t elect rot...

Political thugs and political Islam work together in Banten Okamoto Masaaki    A performance of invulnerability involving m...

In his last interview, Pramoedya kept up his attack on elitism and corruption. Jeremy Mulholland Pramoedya was well, and in high spirits, when I...

Indonesia’s brave experiment in reinventing its legal system Tim Lindsey Since 1998, Indonesia’s notoriously dysfunctional legal system has ...

Indonesia’s labour movement needs to consolidate the gains of 1998 Michele Ford President Suharto’s resignation in May 1998, and the refo...

Why is organised labour missing from the democracy movement? Olle Törnquist When business abandoned Suharto in 1997-98, and students and se...

Families of the Disappeared are Still Searching for Answers R. Waluya Jati In 1997 political activists began noticing that some of their colleag...

Two poets tour Australia Marshall Clark and Giora Eliraz It seems that the days of superstar poets - who bravely spoke up for the common people ...

For now, reformasi is dead. But Mega didn't kill it Edward Aspinall How should we interpret the fall of Abdurrahman Wahid and his replacement by...

A Truth Commission could bring healing for a tragic past Mary S Zurbuchen Even seasoned observers had trouble predicting how difficult the 'post...