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Jul 27, 2024 Last Updated 4:51 AM, Jul 27, 2024

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Human Rights

Legacy of conflict

Bugis IDPs have travelled as warriors, farmers, fishers and traders

Uniform jilbab

The Islamic headscarf is now compulsory in many high schools

Accusations of blasphemy

Are recent fatwa evidence that moderate Islam is a myth?

Lost daughters

Underage women in the commercial sex trade

Unfinished Business

Labour on the net

From workers' rights to democracy

From workers’ rights to democracy

A cultural carnival?

Observing social change in Papua

Whimsical protest

Transforming rubbish into political art

We can do anything

Workers with soul take their message to the kampung

From migrant worker to union organiser

A farmer’s daughter takes control and makes a difference

The fight for women's rights

It’s been a long struggle trying to get unions to listen to women

Beyond the factory

Fauzi Abdullah reflects on more than a quarter of a century of organising

Union conflict

Greater freedom to organise also means more opportunity for division

Workers in politics

Why is organised labour missing from the democracy movement?

Corporate social responsibility?

Just a public relations exercise that undermines workers’ rights

United we stand?

Indonesia’s labour movement needs to consolidate the gains of 1998

Papuan fantasies

Advocates for Papuans need to examine their motives and prejudices.

Brother killing brother

The East Timorese resistance movement also committed crimes.

Facing the past

Overwhelming data makes the East Timor report rock solid

A conservative turn

Liberal Islamic groups have prompted a backlash.

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