Human Rights

Constructions of political, sexual and religious others in contemporary Indonesia

Police and interfaith activists are helping defuse tension and safeguard minority expression

The ‘communist stigma’ is being used as a tool in the courtroom to attack human and environmental rights

Sexual minorities increasingly feel left out of Indonesia’s democratisation processes

Despite stated goodwill by authorities, intolerance towards minority groups is growing in Bandung

1965 collaborators and victims living side by side silently negotiate between past and present

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