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Review: Hello says the mountain

Review: The USA, the CIA and Suharto’s coup

Book review: The journey of Australia’s first Asian language

Review Essay: Banishment and belonging

Book Review: Man of Contradictions

Review: Diponegoro's biographer

Review: China, Indonesia and the Cold War

Review: Witchcraft and doubt

Book Review: The Tasman Map

Book reviews: Telling the Dutch colonial wars in Aceh and South Sulawesi

Review: Bridges of Friendship

An excellent reminder of the strength and importance of relationships between people of different cultures

Review: Flowers from Universe

Textiles from Java

Review: Landscape of the soul

An exhibition of wall-hangings and mixed-media depicts the experiences of European Dutch and Eurasian people in Indonesia during the Japanese Occupation, the Revolution and after

Review: Revisiting the colonial wars

Review: Short Film 'KTP'

A census worker’s village visit reveals the absurdities of identity card data

Review: Ricklefs on Islamisation

Review: The killing season

More than 50 years on, mis-truths about the 1965-66 killings and what motivated them prevail in Indonesia. Geoffrey Robinson's and other books and films on the issue, based on archival research and analysis, continue to be of utmost importance to counter this movement against the truth.

Review: Bicultural leader Siauw Giok Tjhan

Remembering the gang rapes of May 1998

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

Review: Nation building and national identity in Timor Leste

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Recent attempts to address the Indonesian genocide after 1 October 1966

Review: Historical parallelism: Batavia-Ommelanden and Jakarta-Bodetabek

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Photo essay: Human-Nature connections

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Indigenous Dayak Benawan in West Kalimantan

Book review: Civil society elites

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