Inside Jepara

Tensions between state, society and business

No longer so 'special'

Keating's 'special' relationship with Jakarta was undemocratic. After East Timor, Howard is right not to rush back.

Scenes from an occupation

Review: A lone Australian filmmaker records East Timor's history-making year of 1999

Sulami explains why

An extract from Sulami's speech at YPKP's first anniversary

The kampung bookshelf

An innovative idea to stimulate reading in the urban village

The slow birth of democracy

Two years after Suharto, authoritarian values remain strong. But new groups are emerging to challenge them.

Wahid, IMF and the people

A young activist jailed under Suharto is stirring more opposition to Wahid too

A hero passes on

Y B Mangunwijaya (always known as Romo Mangun) died of a heart attack on 10 February 1999, moments after presenting a paper at a Jakarta symposium. On 6 May 1999 he would have turned 70.

Box - The Togian Islands

KATE NAPTHALI falls in love with the Togians, and discovers that health and education are major needs
wife eks tapol1

Despised delight

The Suharto Government's political prisoners have only very rarely been allowed to speak. Here, for the first time, we have an autobiographical story written by a woman, the wife of an ex-tapol, the mother of his child.

Christmas in a prison camp

The following excerpts are taken from a diary of letters kept by an Australian woman who lived in Java, Kalimantan and Bali for nine years
Not that I don't love

Not that I don't love

This short story, written by an ex-political prisoner, has never been published in its original Indonesian version. We cannot disclose the author's real name or the various pseudonyms under which she has been publishing since her release. 
Keeping your head

Keeping your head

Memoir of detention in Indonesia

Page 68 of 68