Military & Police

In 2012 significant new information exposed critical truths about the 1965 massacres in Indonesia, but there remain major obstacles to recovery and reconciliation

Perfectly coiffed hair and rose-pink cheeks underpin Polri’s latest policing tactic

When Indonesia’ s National Police took on the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) over the Bank Century case, the KPK won

From the Archive David Bourchier (ii53: Jan-Mar 1998) looks at the new generation of military leaders, after a big shakeup between July and October 1997

Conflict between Timorese youth gangs and martial arts groups hark back to the Indonesian occupation

A child abducted during the Indonesian occupation returns to her former home

Will the US president continue unrestricted aid to Indonesia’s military?

Muchdi’s murder trial starts falling apart

Political assassinations targeted West Papua’s culture and political identity

Conflict resolution should move from a security to a justice approach

Since their institutional separation, the relationship between the police and the military has been troubled

The peculiar relationship between sex and jasmine tea in downtown Semarang keeps both police and prostitutes in a game of cat and mouse.

There is concern within the Indonesian Armed Forces (ABRI) about human rights abuses committed by its members. Part of the evidence is a manual on human rights recently issued by Maj-Gen Dunidja D., Military Area Commander in Irian Jaya. All soldiers in Irian Jaya are required to carry it as part of their personal equipment.

Australian volunteer LEON JONES was living in Aceh in the lead-up to the violence that eventualy left up to 2000 dead.

The world has long known about the East Timorese death toll. Now retired Lt-Col SUBIYANTO speaks out about Indonesian casualties.

Abri officers are becoming more Islamic, but many do not want their Islam to become a political tool for the administration, according to MARCUS MIETZNER.

Senior ABRI intentions may be obscure now, says BOB LOWRY, but no one should assume they will remain that way.

DAMIEN KINGSBURY puts his money on five military winners in the presidential stakes. Indonesians call them the five Pendawa.

Facing a sceptical public, Abri has to talk harder to justify its political role. JUN HONNA listens in.