A researcher comforts her informant  Memori-Memori Terlarang
Recent ground-breaking publications, an internationally award-winning film and a major conference are opening up new truths about Indonesia’s past
Review: From the dark side
Jusuf Wanandi’s memoir allows glimpses into the mindset of Suharto-era officialdom
Anwar Congo (right) being made up  Final Cut For Real
Joshua Oppenheimer’s groundbreaking new film raises disturbing questions about why perpetrators of the 1965-66 mass killings still enjoy impunity for their actions
Credit: Final Cut for Real
Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing is a bold, disturbing and ultimately unsatisfactory exploration of the place of violence in modern Indonesia
'Truth takes a while, justice even longer'
In 2012 significant new information exposed critical truths about the 1965 massacres in Indonesia, but there remain major obstacles to recovery and reconciliation
Coins for the KPK
A public donation campaign shames the national legislature into supporting Indonesia’s premier anti-corruption agency
What gives rise to moral outrage?
Rather than being merely the result of religious extremism, recent cases of moral outrage point to a wide range of current political and social problems
Teaching remote Indonesia
A new program sends Indonesia’s best and brightest graduates to teach children in its poorest villages
Indonesia’s secret police weapon
Perfectly coiffed hair and rose-pink cheeks underpin Polri’s latest policing tactic
Joke of the month?
What do you get when you cross Sarah Palin and an Islamic polygamist? Meet Rhoma Irama – Indonesia’s king of dangdut
The middle of nowhere
Highland communities in Papua are demanding access to services, but there is a limit to what can be offered in the most remote settlements
Thirty years of Inside Indonesia
The last three decades have seen many political and technological changes, but Inside Indonesia remains a popular and important publication
A new tactical toolkit
The labour movement successfully adopted new tactics in their campaign for social security reform
Born-again cosmopolitan
Pentecostalism and its expressive religiosity resonates with a new generation of Christians