International Relations

Human rights groups report on abuses

Despite attempts to re-engineer Indonesia’s governance mechanisms, corruption remains a chronic problem

Foreign news coverage needs to focus on Indonesia’s people, not just its leaders

A man who left his home to work in a plantation half-way around the world

Ten years after Suharto, the economy is not recovering fast enough

Political parties have stronger social roots in Indonesia than elsewhere in the region

How Indonesia’s democratic transition transformed Aceh

An Australian teacher trainer learns a lesson (or two) in East Java

Jatropha biofuel production in Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara

30 September 1919 – 27 January 2008

A conference in Banda Aceh reveals divergent opinions about what model of Islamic law Aceh should adopt

Working-class Singaporeans travel to Indonesia’s Riau Islands in search of a fantasy built around sex

Indonesia’s premier historian

Rich countries should pay big bucks to reduce emissions in the developing world

About cooking, studying Java, and other serious pleasures

Indonesian, Australian and Timor Leste artists collaborate

In the past decade, 140 Indonesian fishermen drowned in Australian waters, a further 400 were imprisoned. JILL ELLIOTT reports that policies dealing with the issue are costly, ineffective and have tragic consequences. She suggests better alternatives.

While top officials hail the Australia-Indonesia security agreement, ARTHUR KING is appalled to find that, on the ground in East Timor, youths who resist still face torture.

On 2 September 1996, the Philippines government signed an agreement with the Moro National Liberation Front that promised to end decades of violence and give Moro Muslims substantial autonomy. Indonesian Ambassador to Australia, Wiryono Sastrohandojo, helped broker the deal.