Human Rights

Homophobia on the rise
Recent attacks on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender meetings reveal the growing influence of Islamist groups and highlight unequal protection of citizenship rights
God and democracy
A Christian church is asserting its democratic rights by suing the mayor of Depok
Eager to work
The value of children’s paid work on Lombok’s tobacco plantations presents a challenge to emotive arguments for the wholesale banning of child labour
Passports optional
Indonesian migrant workers without visas - or sometimes even passports - rely on the help of middlemen to get past immigration checkpoints into East Malaysia
Leaving Indonesia
As this edition shows, the choices faced by those who leave Indonesia for work are anything but simple
Learning to lead
Against the odds, Indonesian domestic workers have achieved real change in Hong Kong
Censorship makes a comeback
Recent book bannings mark a return to the repressive practices of the New Order
Driving under the New Order
The tumultuous events of 1965 thwarted Liong Tjie Tjong’s writing aspirations
Survival through slavery
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
Hunted communists
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
I'm still here
Forty-five years later, survivors are telling their stories about their suffering in detention 
Terror in Tandes
Two villagers from the rural fringe of Surabaya recall the most frightening night of their lives
Sensitive truths
The exhumation of mass graves from 1965-66 is a fraught and dangerous business
Accomplices in atrocity
The mass killings of 1965-66 in Indonesia were international, not just local, events - and the US played an important role
The Papua dilemma
Personal reflections on an ongoing challenge
West Papua 40 years on
Reflecting on the Act of Free Choice and the integration of West Papua into Indonesia