Apr - Jun 2009

East Timor ten years after the referendum

East Timor ten years after the referendum
A decade on, East Timor is still linked to Indonesia - Hedda Haugen Askland and Thushara Dibley

The politics of remembering and forgetting
The people of East Timor are negotiating different conceptions of reconciliation in their daily lives - Lia Kent

Children of the enemy
A child abducted during the Indonesian occupation returns to her former home - Helene van Klinken

Trapped in the legacy of the past
Conflict between Timorese youth gangs and martial arts groups hark back to the Indonesian occupation - James Scambary

A problematic division
Managing the border between West and East Timor has been an ongoing challenge - David Gutteling

Graphic resistance
Dissent and struggle are persistent themes of images adorning walls across East Timor - Chris Parkinson

Letting go of Indonesian
The choice of Tetum and Portuguese as national languages presents challenges to the new nation - Marie Quinn

Getting an education
Links to Indonesian schools and universities remain strong in East Timor - Angie Bexley

A hybrid popular culture
Indonesian pop music and television still have a significant influence in East Timor - Annie Sloman

Moving with the times

Moving with the times
An update on dance and music in the reformasi era - Monika Swasti Winarnita

Surviving conflict
Aceh’s performing arts have blossomed despite the conflict and the tsunami - Margaret Kartomi

Dancing the nation in migration
Indonesian women in Perth perform a ‘uniting’ dance - Monika Swasti Winarnita

Gestures of power and grace
As Minang dance shows, the guiding rules of culture are often unspoken - Paul Mason

A second revolution?
Dangdut music continues to be a vital part of Indonesian popular culture - Sandra Bader

Heritage and paradox
Wayang Golek is proclaimed a masterpiece, but what is its future? - Sarah Anaïs Andrieu

Weekly Articles

A man on a mission
From the highlands of Papua to exile in England, Benny Wenda is a leader of his people - Jennifer Robinson

D-day for anti-corruption reform
Draft legislation is a prescription potentially worse than the ailment - Jeremy Kingsley

The Anxieties of Mobility
Migration and tourism in the Indonesian borderlands - Johan A. Lindquist

The election as a Karya Agung ritual
Listening to the grassroots explain the 2009 general election in Bali - Bodrek Arsana

Winning a battle, losing the war
Drug users in Indonesia are made vulnerable by current drug laws - Nick Perry

An unsolved puzzle
A new book on Christianity in Indonesia fails to throw light on the startling prominence of women in the church in Minahasa - Susan Blackburn

Patrolling sexuality
The authorities and the media promote vigilantism in Aceh - Sarah J Newman

Water woes
Private sector participation in Jakarta’s water supply has left many citizens high and dry - H Angga Indraswara