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Eager to work

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

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

Oppressed and they know it

Oppressed and they know it
Indonesian fishers in Taiwan are beginning to fight back

Organising for migrant worker rights

Organising for migrant worker rights
Non-governmental organisations continue to fill the gap in the absence of viable alternatives

Leaving Indonesia

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

Learning to lead

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

Censorship makes a comeback

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

Driving under the New Order

Driving under the New Order
The tumultuous events of 1965 thwarted Liong Tjie Tjong’s writing aspirations

Hunted communists

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

Accomplices in atrocity

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

Survival through slavery

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

Sensitive truths

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

I'm still here

I'm still here
Forty-five years later, survivors are telling their stories about their suffering in detention 

The Papua dilemma

The Papua dilemma
Personal reflections on an ongoing challenge

Negotiating the past and looking to the future

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

West Papua 40 years on

West Papua 40 years on
Reflecting on the Act of Free Choice and the integration of West Papua into Indonesia

A violation of international law

A violation of international law
Indonesia’s claim to sovereignty over West Papua rests upon an unsound legal basis

Fauzi Abdullah (1949-2009)

Fauzi Abdullah (1949-2009)
Indonesian labour activists are mourning the passing of a great man

Too precious to mine

Too precious to mine
Central Java farmers refuse to get stuck in cement

Land, ethnicity and politics

Land, ethnicity and politics
Direct local elections have led to new developments in the struggle for land rights in East Kalimantan

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