Human Rights

Living in the midst of uncertainty

In the first of a series of articles we present recent work by demographers and genocide scholars at Michigan State University's Asian Studies Centre on the 1965-1966 killings. Their analysis takes the form of a collection of infographics tracing population numbers across East Java at this time.

The plight of Papua’s internally displaced persons is not being recognised by the Indonesian government

Elite politics and Freeport Indonesia’s non-compliance continue to deny Timotius Kambu his owed wages

Satirical candidates that once seemed refreshing have slipped into tired obscenity

Indonesia’s children wrongly imprisoned in Australia still haven’t been compensated

A change in Australia’s asylum policy has denied refugees in Indonesia vital support

A recently uncovered report reveals how anti-communist paranoia stoked abductions of pro-democracy activists in the last days of the New Order

The stories of Seno Gumira Ajidarma have helped to counter the denial of a national trauma

Indonesia’s first 'new city' may not be addressing the urban problems it was supposed to 

The 2009 mining law and the community benefit in Sulawesi

Foreign investment in large-scale mining has encountered serious obstacles

A witness account of the 2015 International People’s Tribunal on 1965

Aceh’s Commission for Truth and Reconciliation has an important, though delicate, mission ahead

After decades of neglect, Indonesia’s diaspora demands more rights

Locals contest national citizenship rights in North Maluku

Locals react coolly to ex-transmigrants who return to Java after fleeing violence elsewhere

Despite the impressive activism of Pekalongan’s labour union, its political clout remains limited