Military Oppression

A recently uncovered report reveals how anti-communist paranoia stoked abductions of pro-democracy activists in the last days of the New Order

Reverend Mery Kolimon, researcher and advocate working on the 1965 killings in Eastern Indonesia, has a personal connection to this piece of history

A memoir by a former army officer offers insights into Suharto’s moves in October 1965

Dealing with human rights abuses has been business as usual under the Jokowi administration

A monologue

Herb Feith Annual Memorial Lecture 2014

Jakarta 1998 was bad, but Prabowo likely had more blood on his hands in East Timor

Stories from Papua’s political prisoners show life at the edge of freedom

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

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

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

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

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

A response to Jim Elmslie and Stuart Upton

Papuan claims of genocide deserve to be taken seriously

Migration has caused many problems in Papua, but it is not part of a genocidal master plan

From the highlands of Papua to exile in England, Benny Wenda is a leader of his people

A child abducted during the Indonesian occupation returns to her former home

Will the US president continue unrestricted aid to Indonesia’s military?