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Mar 18, 2025 Last Updated 7:38 AM, Feb 24, 2025

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The looming AIDS epidemic

Intravenous drug use is exacerbating the spread of the HIV virus

Lecture me not

Helping to boost English teaching seemed a splendid idea, but then Indonesian realities intervened

A shared vision

Portraits of Islamic women from different centuries and different organisations

Forty years on

With Suharto gone, the anniversary of the 1965 coup attempt is more controversial than ever

Kampung Kamal

Half a century after Herb Feith first lived in Kamal, Nikolas Feith Tan retraces his grandfather’s steps

Partnership or pretence

Who should call the shots – international donors or local NGOs?

The activists' dilemma

Many are ambivalent about international aid

Where it hurts in Papua

An Indonesian NGO finds injustices in unexpected places

The price of peace

The price of peace

Reintegration funds have caused problems as well as solving them.

Rebuilding lives

An Australian aid worker reflects on post-tsunami reconstruction.

Living in peace

Living in peace

The village of Oelua proves that Indonesians can live with difference.

How to stop understanding

Blanket travel warnings just don’t make sense

Friends on the net

Networking sites are popular with young Indonesians

Here's looking at you, kids

Here's looking at you, kids

Here’s looking at you, kids

Generation 98

Djenar Maesa Ayu – one of Indonesia’s exciting new female authors

Lost daughters

Underage women in the commercial sex trade

Caring for people with AIDS

Universal access to treatment is not just a dream

The AIDS awareness clinic

HIV prevention in West Jakarta’s red light district

Anti-malarials or anti-Christ?

Health promotion in remote Tello islands

Speaking of sex

Ignoring teen sexuality only increases health risks

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