Human Rights

The provocative Julia Suryakusuma on the rampage

What happens after three police officers are found guilty of manslaughter and torture?

Lia Kent’s study of East Timor’s attempts at transitional justice is an important contribution  

Young Indonesian lesbians struggle with the pressure to marry

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

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

Former political prisoner Eko Maryadi speaks to Nikki Edwards about his incarceration during the New Order

Detained asylum seekers face massive hurdles in accessing rights and protection

Two young Solo poets believe poetry should serve the people

Tickamyer and Kusujiarti’s new book is essential reading

Indonesia’s parliament is cracking down on sorcery

Joshua Oppenheimer’s groundbreaking new film raises disturbing questions about why perpetrators of the 1965-66 mass killings still enjoy impunity for their actions

The filmmaker explains that The Act of Killing exposes the imagination of terror

Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing is a bold, disturbing and ultimately unsatisfactory exploration of the place of violence in modern Indonesia

In 2012 significant new information exposed critical truths about the 1965 massacres in Indonesia, but there remain major obstacles to recovery and reconciliation

Dan Lev explains how an outsider became a national hero

Rather than being merely the result of religious extremism, recent cases of moral outrage point to a wide range of current political and social problems

What do you get when you cross Sarah Palin and an Islamic polygamist? Meet Rhoma Irama – Indonesia’s king of dangdut

There are signs that Indonesia may move towards abolition of the death penalty