Nine students were arrested last week after 50 students commandeered a public bus to attack a rival gang. Police confiscated sickles,…

On 27 January, student demonstrators held a free speech forum, a street march and rallied at the local parliament (DPRD) over remarks…

We the members of the East Timor House of Representatives, on behalf of our constituents of the people of East Timor, wish to express our grave…

Rather than produce an exhaustive list of the multiplicity of events occurred last year or try to place them in rigorous order of importance, the…

Charlotte Clayton – Jose Ramos-Horta is the Fretilin activist and self styled Foreign Minister of a nonexisting Republic.

On December 11…

Greg Earl, Jakarta – Indonesia is facing a major credibility challenge to its economic assistance package with President Soeharto's son yesterday…

The folly of pushing ahead with a huge rice conversion project in Central Kalimantan without any environmental impact assessment, is becoming…

Once, Indonesia's President Suharto was considered a demigod by his people; a leader whose power over his country of more than 17,000 islands…

Jakarta – After enduring 21 years of brutal occupation at the hands of the Indonesian military, the East Timorese people deserve the long-…

James Balowski – Despite the ongoing crackdown against PRD (People's Democratic Party) members and other pro-democracy activists, when John Howard…

The rapid development of Indonesia's pulp and paper industry will put yet more pressure on the country's already severely depleted forests.

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Hundreds of thousands of hectares of pristine tropical peat forests in Central Kalimantan are about to be destroyed for a huge rice development…

In our last issue we described how Indonesia, and especially Kalimantan's gold belt has become a honeypot for Canadian companies. They are hoping…

Contents

I. Summary
II. Policy recommendations
III. The…

Garuda Indonesian Airline offices in Europe and Australia, are starting to become targets of protests against the Suharto regime, after the regime…

The long-running dispute between the Bentian people of East Kalimantan and the logging company PT Kahold Utama remains unresolved. The dispute…

Jakarta – The head of NU Abdurrahman Wahid said yesterday that he is not convinced that a number of Maduran's went to Kalimantan to "…

In West Kalimantan too, indigenous people are struggling to defend their customary land against commercial interests.

Early in 1995 a…

Max Lane – It's surprising that any observer of Indonesian society and politics could accept the official line that Indonesia's approach to the…

By Noam Chomsky - January 1995

In January of 1995, Noam Chomsky paid a visit to Australia and gave a number of lectures. This is an…

Rudy Habibie is arguably Indonesia's most influential citizen, after President Suharto, of course. Although officially he only holds the humble…

This article originally appeared in Links - International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Issue…

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto received a substantial endorsement on Tuesday as the influential figure, Erick…

M. Faiz Zaki, Jakarta – The pros and cons of implementing 12 percent VAT by January 1, 2025, were responded to by the Chair of the National…

West Papua – On 19 April 2025, Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) members reportedly executed an unarmed indigenous Papuan named Mr Yulli…

Ananda Ridho Sulistya, Jakarta – Indonesian Minister of Environment Hanif Faisol has stated that West Java has lost approximately 1.2 million…