Human Rights

Government and the NGO sector are working to change attitudes towards violence against women

Men in Pekanbaru and Makassar are slowly changing their minds about domestic violence

Tarakan’s riots illustrate the risks of collusive public contracting and the continued weakness of local security responses

A small community in Southeast Sulawesi is engaged in an ongoing quest for recognition of its right to live on its ancestral land

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  

A mural competition in Yogyakarta sees Indonesians reinterpreting their revolutionary past in the light of present concerns

Lapindo Brantas’ involvement in the Surabaya Post has restricted the way journalists report on the mudflow

Indonesian doctors have been persecuted for providing safe abortions for almost a century

Recent attacks on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender meetings reveal the growing influence of Islamist groups and highlight unequal protection of citizenship rights

A Christian church is asserting its democratic rights by suing the mayor of Depok

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

Indonesian migrant workers without visas - or sometimes even passports - rely on the help of middlemen to get past immigration checkpoints into East Malaysia

As this edition shows, the choices faced by those who leave Indonesia for work are anything but simple

Against the odds, Indonesian domestic workers have achieved real change in Hong Kong

Recent book bannings mark a return to the repressive practices of the New Order

The tumultuous events of 1965 thwarted Liong Tjie Tjong’s writing aspirations

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

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