Human Rights

Terror in Tandes
Two villagers from the rural fringe of Surabaya recall the most frightening night of their lives
Accomplices in atrocity
The mass killings of 1965-66 in Indonesia were international, not just local, events - and the US played an important role
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
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
Land, ethnicity and politics
Direct local elections have led to new developments in the struggle for land rights in East Kalimantan
The right to choose
Indonesian activists keep fighting to have abortion decriminalised
A disaster, but not genocide
Migration has caused many problems in Papua, but it is not part of a genocidal master plan
Not just a piece of paper
The state’s requirements for marriage registration disadvantage poor rural women
A man on a mission
From the highlands of Papua to exile in England, Benny Wenda is a leader of his people
Patrolling sexuality
The authorities and the media promote vigilantism in Aceh
Children of the enemy
A child abducted during the Indonesian occupation returns to her former home