Jan-Mar 2008

Tourism in question

Tourism in question
In our new edition, Inside Indonesia explores different perspectives on tourism - Emma Baulch 

Post-bomb lessons
Strategic planning for disaster remains a low priority for the central government, despite the lessons learned in the aftermath of the Bali bombings - Dina Wipsar Andari

Food for the future
Organic farming takes root in post-bomb Bali - Graeme MacRae

Eco-tourism for whom?
Bunaken National Marine Park is promoted as an ideal mix of tourism and conservation, but not all local people agree - Leila Sievanen

Living like kings
Working-class Singaporeans travel to Indonesia’s Riau Islands in search of a fantasy built around sex - Michele Ford and Lenore Lyons

Singapore, not sawit
Tourism campaigns in East Kalimantan fall short of provincial middle class aspirations - Laurens Bakker

Suharto’s last erection 
Nationalism and every-day tourism - Geoff Mulherin

Rich, Asian and all-natural
Indonesia’s wealthy partake of a booming spa tourism industry, joining a pan-Asian community of well-to-do consumers of the ‘non-west’ -Bart Barendregt

Weekly Articles

Book reviews
Indonesia in the Soeharto years - Reviewed by Katharine McGregor
Christianity, Islam and nationalism in Indonesia - Reviewed by Annie Feith
Art as politics - Reviewed by Elizabeth Morrell

‘Go home, tourist!’
In Kuta, a local surfer has found that it is worthwhile to share waves with tourists - Alex Leonard

Bali’s wild side
Managing conservation, tourism and the needs of local communities in Bali Barat National Park - Louise O’Flynn

Angel sparks controversy
Journalists strike after West Java’s most famous newspaper ‘withdraws’ poem - Julian Millie

Review: Masters of terror
Indonesia’s Military and Violence in East Timor - Editors: Richard Tanter, Desmond Ball and Gerry van Klinken. Reviewed by Damian Grenfell

Voices from the muddy void
Living with the Lapindo disaster - Sarah Rennie

Review: The Indonesian Presidency
The Shift from Personal towards Constitutional Rule - Angus McIntyre

Radio Pikonane
Connecting Papua’s Central Highlands - Tessa Piper

Review: Democratising Indonesia
The Challenges of Civil Society in the Era of Reformasi - Mikaela Nyman

Classroom culture shock
An Australian teacher trainer learns a lesson (or two) in East Java - Louise Blair

Review: Women Shaping Islam
Reading the Qur’an in Indonesia - Pieternella van Doorn-Harder

Miracle solution or imminent disaster?
Jatropha biofuel production in Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara - Jacqueline Vel

Review: Desire - divine and demonic
Balinese mysticism in the paintings of I Ketut Budiana and I Gusti Nyoman Mirdiana - Michele Stephen

How will Indonesians remember Suharto?
Newspaper obituaries, from Sabang to Merauke - Compiled and translated by Rahadian Permadi, Gerry van Klinken, and Lis Jackson

Obituary - Mohammad Jusuf Ronodipuro
30 September 1919–27 January 2008 - Yosef Djakababa

Deals and denial
Who is really responsible for Indonesia's drug epidemic - Laine Berman

Sand rafts
Along the Opak River in Pundong, near Bantul, Yogyakarta, locals trade their sweat for a pile of sand - Danu Primanto

The passing of a dictator
Arief Budiman reflects on Suharto and his legacy - Rahadian Permadi

Modelling syariah in Aceh
A conference in Banda Aceh reveals divergent opinions about what model of Islamic law Aceh should adopt - Jemma Parsons

Suharto (8 June 1921- 27 January 2008)
A career soldier who commanded a country - John Roosa

Disabled megalopolitan
Jakarta’s disabled are striving for a better deal - Bunga Sirait

Politics of symbolism
Unionists express their disgust at local government’s failure to look after the interests of workers - Iskarmon Basir

Mohammad Sadli, 1923 – 2008
The passing of the technocrats - Richard Robison

Postcards from a wasteland
Despite being a scene of destruction and heartache, there is a strange beauty in the new landscape created in the wake of the Sidoarjo mud disaster - Siobhan Campbell

Un-natural disaster
An unstoppable flow of mud from an explosion in a gas well in Sidoarjo, East Java, has unleashed a plethora of political issues - Jim Schiller