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Women and marginalised groups seize new opportunities in the arts

Aid must embrace social change

Aid must embrace social change

A shared vision

Portraits of Islamic women from different centuries and different organisations

Forty years on

With Suharto gone, the anniversary of the 1965 coup attempt is more controversial than ever

Partnership or pretence

Who should call the shots – international donors or local NGOs?

A free lunch?

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

The activists' dilemma

Many are ambivalent about international aid

Aid with strings attached

Foreign policy not poverty reduction drives the Australian aid program

IMF aid helping the poor?

Economists propose an alternative strategy to the prevailing neo-liberal ideology for reducing poverty

From poverty to social justice

Aid works best when it seeks to confront social injustice

How to stop understanding

Blanket travel warnings just don’t make sense

Friends on the net

Networking sites are popular with young Indonesians

Here's looking at you, kids

Here's looking at you, kids
Here’s looking at you, kids

Accusations of blasphemy

Are recent fatwa evidence that moderate Islam is a myth?

Generation 98

Djenar Maesa Ayu – one of Indonesia’s exciting new female authors

Lost daughters

Underage women in the commercial sex trade

Caring for people with AIDS

Universal access to treatment is not just a dream

The AIDS awareness clinic

HIV prevention in West Jakarta’s red light district

Local democracy

The entrance to a local election booth during the 2008 West Java election. (Ikhlasul Amal/Flickr)
Old elites are still in power, but direct elections now give voters a choice

Speaking of sex

Ignoring teen sexuality only increases health risks

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