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A fair go for all

Taking a legal approach to fighting discrimination

Blood or money?

Ethnicity now plays a role in local politics in South Sumatra but money still rules

How to be Chinese

Ethnic Chinese experience a ‘reawakening’ of their Chinese identity

Remembering today

Ien Ang returns to Indonesia and her Chinese roots

A history of diversity

Ethnic relations in West Kalimantan are marked with blood

Singing for life

Music is still a potent source of cultural resistance in West Papua

Divide and who rules?

Ethnic nationalism under siege in West Papua

Trial by fire

Taking the law into your own hands is now commonplace in urban areas in Indonesia

Maids face death penalty

Five Indonesian domestic workers face possible death sentences in Singapore

Wiralodra's buffalo hide

A Jakarta NGO is building alternatives to prostitution

Fixing Papua's history?

Scholarly research and political reality meet in a Dutch inquiry into Papua

We were slaves in a free country

Maid Halim, a communist, wants the state to admit its crimes

The year that never ended

Oral histories of 1965

Watching the vote

140,000 progressive Muslim volunteers monitored Indonesia’s April elections

Running for office

A Christian candidate for a Muslim party in North Maluku

Women and syariah in Aceh

Aceh’s women find themselves between an armed conflict and Islamic law

Opponents of Islamic Law

Diverse responses to proponents of Islamic law indicate democracy is healthy in South Sulawesi

Islam and democracy cannot meet

Irfan Awwas sets out his vision for Islamic law in Indonesia

The Politics of Power

Denise Leith makes a significant contribution to the debate surrounding the Freeport mine

Zakir's demise

Protest poetry lives on in post-Suharto Indonesia

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