Habibie Presidency

A free lunch?

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

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

Union conflict

Greater freedom to organise also means more opportunity for division

Workers in politics

Why is organised labour missing from the democracy movement?

United we stand?

Indonesia’s labour movement needs to consolidate the gains of 1998

Political business

Entrepreneurs are transforming political parties.

Brother killing brother

The East Timorese resistance movement also committed crimes.

Facing the past

Overwhelming data makes the East Timor report rock solid

Teacher and Friend

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

The sixth religion

Chinese Confucianism is recognised again as an official religion.

Contested land claims

Which Dongi people should be compensated for land?

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