Human Rights

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 mass killings of 1965-66 in Indonesia were international, not just local, events - and the US played an important role

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

The exhumation of mass graves from 1965-66 is a fraught and dangerous business

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

Two villagers from the rural fringe of Surabaya recall the most frightening night of their lives

Personal reflections on an ongoing challenge

Meaningful dialogue about the future of Papua requires that Indonesians and Papuans honestly address the past

Reflecting on the Act of Free Choice and the integration of West Papua into Indonesia

Indonesia’s claim to sovereignty over West Papua rests upon an unsound legal basis

Indonesian labour activists are mourning the passing of a great man

Regional autonomy and spatial planning in Bandung benefits the elite

Direct local elections have led to new developments in the struggle for land rights in East Kalimantan

Central Java farmers refuse to get stuck in cement

Indonesian activists keep fighting to have abortion decriminalised

A response to Jim Elmslie and Stuart Upton

Migration has caused many problems in Papua, but it is not part of a genocidal master plan

Papuan claims of genocide deserve to be taken seriously

The state’s requirements for marriage registration disadvantage poor rural women