Guided Democracy

Arnold Ap and Theys Eluay

Political assassinations targeted West Papua’s culture and political identity

Oey Hay Djoen (1929-2008)

Sartono Kartodirdjo, 1921-2007

Indonesia’s premier historian

Remembering Ong

About cooking, studying Java, and other serious pleasures

A fresh wind is blowing

Why is it so hard to remember the evils of the past? ROB GOODFELLOW explores the pain, and the exhilaration, of memory.

Ayam Majapahit

LAINE BERMAN sheds a tear for the late great Indonesian comic.

Women and the nation

Throughout its history, outsiders wanted the women's movement to be nationalist first of all. Now women are finding their own voice

For kicks

The history of football is a history of Indonesia itself

Planning Jakarta

Review: Abidin Kusno examines trends in architectural design and urban planning in Jakarta

Not Fade Away

A General of the Sukarno years criticises today's military

Dirk Samuel Ayamiseba (1912-2003)

Dirk Ayamiseba will be sadly missed by his family and all those who knew and respected this great Papuan leader

Whose stability?

Indonesia’s troubles today result from the pursuit of repressive forms of stability

Fixing Papua's history?

Scholarly research and political reality meet in a Dutch inquiry into Papua

Political humour

There’s more than subversion in Indonesian jokes

The politics of culture

Pramoedya's reputation is still dogged by the cultural polemics of the Sukarno era

Teacher and Friend

A younger writer remembers Pramoedya’s influence on his own life and work.

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