Box - West Kalimantan at a glance
West Kalimantan at a glance
The fear and the fury
FRANZ MAGNIS-SUSENO believes that riots happen because people feel threatened by change.
Citizens organise themselves
Goenawan Mohamad explains to GERRY VAN KLINKEN why the independent electoral monitoring committee KIPP inspired so many volunteers to take action.
Pauline Hanson -- you are what you eat
ROB GOODFELLOW and PETER SMITH take a whimsical look at an Australian backlash against Asia, and against the wider world.
Dayak anger ignored
MICHAEL DOVE traces Dayak unhappiness to inequities in state development.
Murder in the cathedral
IRIP NEWS SERVICE speaks with a member of Dili's Catholic Commission for Education and uncovers an assassination attempt against Nobel prize winner Bishop Belo
What price victory? The 1997 elections
ED ASPINALL finds that Golkar's massive electoral victory sits strangely with its loss of credibility on the streets.
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