Politics

Undocumented Indonesian migrant labourers - known locally as kuli dollar - work long hours in difficult conditions in search of prosperity in Philadelphia

Migrant domestic workers aspire to more than their home communities can offer and are willing to take risks to change their lives

Indonesian migrant workers without visas - or sometimes even passports - rely on the help of middlemen to get past immigration checkpoints into East Malaysia

Pocket money given to intending migrant domestic workers comes at a price

Megawati Soekarnoputri stakes her claim to opposition, but will it be enough to stem her party's decline?

Abdurrahman Wahid’s life deserves serious and critical reflection

From the Archives

Greg Fealy (ii65: Jan-Mar 2001) interviews the leader of a new, radical and militant sect

Corruption continues to shape the political landscape in Kutai Kartanegara, Indonesia’s richest district

Two villagers from the rural fringe of Surabaya recall the most frightening night of their lives

Suspected communists who survived the killings of 1965-66 in South Sulawesi spent the next 20 years working for the military in an isolated jungle camp

Forty-five years later, survivors are telling their stories about their suffering in detention 

The mass killings of 1965-66 in Indonesia were international, not just local, events - and the US played an important role

This mini-encyclopedia explains some of the key terms pertaining to the events of 1965-66

The exhumation of mass graves from 1965-66 is a fraught and dangerous business

Many of those accused of being communists fled to South Blitar after the Surabaya crackdown, only to become the target of the Trisula Operation in 1968

When Nahdlatul Ulama members killed communists, they believed they were doing it for God

Even now, Indonesians find it difficult to face the traumatic events of the past

Personal reflections on an ongoing challenge

Meaningful dialogue about the future of Papua requires that Indonesians and Papuans honestly address the past

Reflecting on the Act of Free Choice and the integration of West Papua into Indonesia