S. N. Vasuki - Though Indonesia's parliamentary elections are five months away, major political groupings have already launched an aggressive…

Agence France-Presse in Jakarta - The main Muslim political party has threatened to withdraw from this year's general election, saying campaign…

Michael Richardson, Manado – In a country where official statistics show Muslims forming 85 percent of the 200 million population, a striking…

Michael Richardson, Jakarta – Strong economic growth forecast for Indonesia in 1997 along with a projected increase in exports and lower inflation…

Jakarta – The head of Nadhlatul Ulama [NU, Association of Muslim Scholars)] Abdurrahman Wahid openly and during the Bhinneka Tunggal Ika Dialogue…

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Rather than produce an exhaustive…

The government announced yesterday it is to increase the minimum wage level in all 27 provinces by an average of 10.07 percent from April 1.

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…

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…

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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