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Lost daughters

Underage women in the commercial sex trade

Caring for people with AIDS

Universal access to treatment is not just a dream

The AIDS awareness clinic

HIV prevention in West Jakarta’s red light district

Anti-malarials or anti-Christ?

Health promotion in remote Tello islands

Blood money

Links between corruption and violence in Poso

Local democracy

The entrance to a local election booth during the 2008 West Java election. (Ikhlasul Amal/Flickr)
Old elites are still in power, but direct elections now give voters a choice

Speaking of sex

Ignoring teen sexuality only increases health risks

Youth Indonesian

Much more than just Indonesian without the grammar

Homicide and hip-hop

Bandung’s outspoken rap group

Girl culture on the big screen

No longer misfits, but far from gender warriors

Distro

Independent fashion moves from margins to mainstream

Illegal drags

Thrills and spills of Jakarta’s street races

Youth heroin use

How effective is the war on drugs?

Unfinished Business

Labour on the net

Reviews

Review: Toraja comes alive in this book through the detailed descriptions and interlinking of political, social, economic, and religious processes.

From workers' rights to democracy

From workers’ rights to democracy

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Review: This book is an important and timely discussion of how nation, belonging, same-gender/same-sex identity and desire as well as geography all intersect in Indonesia

Prospects for peace

New agreement to end conflict in Aceh creates surprising trust and optimism

A cultural carnival?

Observing social change in Papua

Rendra speaks

Rendra speaks
Australia: an alternative West in Asia?

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