Jan 22, 2019 Last Updated 6:32 AM, Jan 20, 2019

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Aceh

Forbidden smoke

Source/ Flickr Creative Commons/ d_mcplum

Banda Aceh’s anti-tobacco efforts are unfairly focused on women smokers

Gambling with truth

Two Acehnese young women hold up colourful protest signs demanding justice for past human rights violations.

Aceh’s Commission for Truth and Reconciliation has an important, though delicate, mission ahead

Review: Hope and despair in Aceh

Mahdi Abdullah speaks to guests at Transmemorabilia. (Australia Plus)

Contemporary Indonesian painter Mahdi Abdullah exhibits Acehnese culture in Melbourne

In the name of food security

A banner in front of a military outpost in Langkahan village, North Aceh. The banner reads ‘Together with the people the TNI will be stronger’. Emirza Adi Syailendra

The army’s over-immersion in civilian affairs is being encouraged by its role in food security projects

Imagining a nation divided

A mosque in Sidikalang, a town in North Sumatra just across the border from Aceh Singkil - Daniel Andrew Birchok

Aceh Singkil’s recent church burning may reflect common ways Indonesians have linked religion and region

Documenting genocide

Military death map for Aceh. Top right hand corner: 'Attachment: Intelligence Map'. Numbers in circles are the number of public deaths recorded in each district. 'Dead PKI elements': Oknum PKI jg. mati.- Credit: photographed by Jess Melvin.

Newly discovered military documents detail culpability for the 1965 genocide. Why has it taken so long to find them?

Lessons learned from Indonesia’s conflicts: Aceh, Poso and Papua

Sidney Jones lecture

Herb Feith Annual Memorial Lecture 2014

Strange bedfellows

Strange bedfellows

An unlikely alliance between former rebels and a former New Order tormentor will test the limits of Partai Aceh loyalty

Traveling for a cure

Traveling for a cure

Rebuilding trust in doctors will be an important part of Aceh’s post-conflict recovery

A new model for mental health care?

A new model for mental health care?

Mental health services have been seriously neglected in Indonesia, but emergency responses to the Aceh tsunami and conflict have led to new ways of thinking

Medicine for a sick system

Medicine for a sick system

Healthcare in Indonesia suffers from many chronic problems that only healthier politics can cure

On death row

On death row

Dozens of Acehnese drug offenders face the death penalty in Malaysia

From the archive: On death row

Cannibis plants - Michael Wolf

Inside Indonesia revisits a series of articles from its archive on the theme of the death penalty. We asked the authors of these articles to write an update to accompany their pieces

Supporting syariah, advancing women

Supporting syariah, advancing women

The life and work of an Islamic teacher in Aceh shows that the struggle for gender equality is about much more than syariah.

The Aceh Party

The Aceh Party

The elections were tense in Aceh but in the end helped to consolidate the peace process

Surviving conflict

Surviving conflict

Aceh’s performing arts have blossomed despite the conflict and the tsunami

Patrolling sexuality

Patrolling sexuality

The authorities and the media promote vigilantism in Aceh

Aceh on a knife's edge

Aceh on a knife's edge

There are big dangers in declaring success too soon

Hubs and wires

Hubs and wires

Internet use in Indonesian NGOs is strengthening civil society

We miss you wali nanggroe

We miss you wali nanggroe

Hasan di Tiro returns to an Aceh in transition

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Blasphemy on the rise

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As blasphemy convictions increase in this democratic era, election campaigning indicates little will change

Radical theatre of the difabled

Nov 27, 2018 - IRFAN KORTSCHAK

The group during a rehearsal / Irfan Kortschak

Drawing upon the Theatre of the Oppressed, villagers with disabilities have an opportunity to express themselves

Essay: Contesting urban beauty in Jakarta

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Walking Jakarta’s northern coastline reveals communities experiencing disruptive and rapid change

A ‘powerhouse’ scholar: In memoriam Jim Schiller (1944 – 2018)

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