Jarrod Woolley – Watching a woman come out of mourning for the first time in 31 years was one of the most moving moments in husband and wife filmmaking team Luigi Acquisto and Stella Za

Asawin Suebsaeng – The Act of Killing is that rare documentary – one that might actually change things.

John Aglionby – Florindo Araujo is certain that Sander Thoenes was still alive when he last saw the Financial Times journalist.

Lea Jellinek – This is a brilliant book, a must read for anybody wanting to understand the Asian city. In Indonesia, kampung dwellers make up over half of the urban population.

Stephen Applebaum – This year's Berlin film festival hosted movies by well-known directors including Richard Linklater, Steven Soderbergh, Noah Baumbach, Michael Winterbottom and Ken Lo

Larry Rohter – Early in "The Act of Killing", Joshua Oppenheimer's startling new documentary about mass murder and impunity in Indonesia, a death squad leader named Anwar Congo, dapper

John DeFore, New York – Presenting a surprising and privileged viewpoint on the climax of East Timor's long struggle for independence, Alex Meillier's "Alias Ruby Blade" introduces us t

Gerry van Klinken – The most extraordinary achievement of the New Order might have been the tenacity of its ideology.

Robert Cribb – Filmed over several years in the North Sumatra capital, Medan, The Act of Killing is a sprawling work that encompasses three distinct, though related, stories.

John Roosa – At times one comes close to feeling sorry for Pak Wanandi. So little in his life worked out as planned.

If the story of East Timor is one of success, of a small country claiming its independence over the incredibly stacked odds of an oppressive regime, it it also the backdrop of the extra

"The Act of Killing," a critically acclaimed documentary in which a pair of gangsters re-enact their roles in the 1965 Communist purges in Indonesia, will be honored on Sunday with two

Imanuddin Razak, Jakarta – Different people take different paths on the road to prominence or success.

Katrin Figge – In Indonesia, lesbian women, as well as gay men, bisexuals and transgender individuals, often face intolerance and violence from religious fundamentalist groups like the

Wendy Frew – Historians often say the past is a foreign country but in East Timor it's a thread that runs through the fabric of daily life.

Will Sinclair – It was the kind of event that Lady Gaga would have surely supported.

Olin Monteiro – After "Jakarta Maghrib" and the horror omnibus "Hi5teria," which is still playing in cinemas, get ready for "Sanubari Jakarta" ("Jakarta Deep Down").

East Timor's first feature film revisits the tiny nation's tortured struggle for independence, writes Natalie Craig.

Lisa Siregar – The new movie "Sang Penari" ("The Dancer") is only the third Indonesian film to chronicle one of the country's most violent, unspoken periods: the anti-communist purge th

[The Circle of Silence: A Personal Testimony before, during, and after Balibo Author: Shirley Shackleton, Publisher: Pier 9, 2010, Pages: 390.]

Not many people can claim that they were literally part of history.

Veronika Kusumaryanti, Jakarta – Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, is well-known for its moderate brand of Islam.

Jakarta – For decades, the song Genjer-genjer sent shivers down the spines of those who heard it, especially listeners born in the 1980s.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – A new book is challenging the long-held claim that Soeharto was the initiator of the historic March 1, 1949, offensive to retake Yogyakarta from the Dutch

Ezki Suyanto – At one point during Aceh's nearly 35-year battle for autonomy, a women approached an officer at a military post in the village of Trio.

New film breaks Indonesian media ban on images of West Papuan rebel camps

Belinda Lopez – In Blok AA1 of the Christian cemetery in Kebayoran Lama, an engraved headstone marks the resting place of young journalists shot by the Indonesian military.

[My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with a Radical Islamist. By Sadanand Dhume. Reviewed by Ioannis Gatsiounis.]

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – Society still strongly refuses to accept the lifestyle choices of gay men in Indonesia, causing many to lead double lives, a US scholar says.

The pen is sharper than a blade. This was an adagium used by social observer and woman activist Debra H.

Lisa Siregar – A feature-length documentary that was shown at the Boston International Film Festival over the weekend is an intergenerational depiction of the 1965-66 anti-Communist pur

[Timor Timur, Menit Terakhir – Catatan Seorang Wartawan (East Timor, The Last Minute – A Journalist's Notebook). C.M. Rien Koentari, Mizan Pustaka, 2008. 438 pages]

Jakarta – Unanswered questions about East Timor's break for independence in 1999 were brought to the forefront with the Thursday launch of East Timor, One Final Minute – a journalist's

[Review essay by Dr Clinton Fernandes, UNSW@ADFA The UN in East Timor: Building Timor Leste, a Fragile State, by Dr Juan Federer, Charles Darwin University Press, 2004.]

[Unfinished Nation: Indonesia Before and After Suharto by Max Lane Verso, HK$223. Reviewed by Tom Fawthrop.]

Lisa Macdonald, Sydney – Tim Anderson's new documentary on the East Timor-Cuba health cooperation program is an inspiration.

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – The Holocaust did happen and was historically well-documented by historians and its survivors with their published journals and testimonies.

[Resistance: A Childhood Fighting for East Timor By Naldo Rei University of Queensland Press, 338pp, $34.95. Review by Sian Powell.]

[Sukarno and the Indonesian Coup: The Untold Story by Helen-Louise Hunter. Praeger Security International (May 30, 2007). ISBN-10: 0275974383. Price US$75, 216 pages.

[Indonesia: Democracy and the Promise of Good Governance. Editors: Ross H. McLeod, Andrew MacIntyre. Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS). 207 pages, 2007.]

[Shakedown. By Paul Cleary. Allen & Unwin, 304pp, $29.95.]

[History in Uniform: Military Ideology and the Construction of Indonesia's past. Katherine McGregor. National University of Singapore Press, 2007.]

[Shakedown: Australia's grab for Timor oil. By Paul Cleary. Allen & Unwin, 2007. 336 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Vannessa Hearman.]

[East Timor: Beyond Independence. Edited by Damien Kingsbury and Michael Leach Monash University Press, 2007. 302 pages, $36.95. Reviewed by Jon Lamb.]

[John Roosa, Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement and Suharto's Coup d'Etat in Indonesia. 2007, University of Wisconsin Press, 329 pages.

[Dreamseekers: Indonesian Women as Domestic Workers in Asia by Dewi Anggraeni. Equinox, Jakarta (2006) pp. 250.]

[Negligent Neighbour: New Zealand's Complicity in the Invasion and Occupation of Timor-Leste by Maire Leadbeater, 234 pages, Craig Potton Publishing.]

Christine Kearney – Ugly. Rapacious. Bruising and governed by the narrowest definitions of national interest.

Jakarta – May 1998. Students from throughout the country spilled into the hall and occupied the national parliament building.

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