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The Forestry Law has not stopped mining in Indonesia's state forests

The elections show that Indonesian workers are not yet a major political presence

Munir’s death robbed Indonesia not only of a unique intellectual and activist, but of one of its brightest hopes for the future

There’s more than subversion in Indonesian jokes

Will victims of human rights abuses at last have their say?

The new Constitutional Court combines law and politics

The successful new party PKS is a moderate alternative to radical Islamism

Elections do nothing to eliminate sources of social tension

It’s difficult to get human rights education into Indonesian schools

Preman have had to change in order to stay in business

Always controversial, Mochtar Lubis was one of Indonesia’s most respected journalists and best-known authors for over four decades.

This man’s message is simple — four wives are better for business than one

Golkar still dominates Indonesian politics

Women are now on both sides of the camera

Subversive ‘underground’ voices in Indonesian rap Michael Bodden It’s Jakarta, June 2004 and the boom box is playing a hip-hop beat. It’s a far cry from the meditative gamelan music, saccharine love songs or even the sensual dangdut one expects to hear in Java. The rapper is Xaqhala and he spins a gritty, rhythmic poem of everyday youth experience.

Indonesia’s comic scene is in a golden age but the industry remains marginal and plagued by self-doubt

Women and marginalised groups seize new opportunities in the arts

Aid must embrace social change

Portraits of Islamic women from different centuries and different organisations