Human Rights

BP’s massive LNG project is due to begin operations in late 2008, despite social and environmental costs

The arts scene has changed radically since 1998, but some of the old uncertainties remain

Indonesia’s tangled public information laws are keeping the press in check

A photo essay about families of the disappeared

Volunteers bring alternative education to marginalised communities

With no internal wars to fight, Yudhoyono can afford to reform the military

Journalists strike after West Java’s most famous newspaper ‘withdraws’ poem.

Connecting Papua’s Central Highlands

A conference in Banda Aceh reveals divergent opinions about what model of Islamic law Aceh should adopt

Unionists express their disgust at local government’s failure to look after the interests of workers

Displaced East Timorese children go hungry in Indonesian West Timor

But her husband won’t come to the party.

The rise, fall, and re-branding of a celebrity preacher

Women are challenging the stereotypes that have long defined Indonesian unionists.

About cooking, studying Java, and other serious pleasures

Intellectual, Chinese, atheist, gay - and wholly Indonesian

Inspired by television and Muchtar Pakpahan, a traditional fisherman decides it’s time to act.

Officially, 2.4 million Indonesian children work in factories or on the streets, instead of being at school. Unofficially, the number could be 10 million. SHARON BESSELL talks with some working children, and asks what is being done.