Mar - Jun 1996

In this issue
New editor
Inside Indonesia has a new editor

POLITICS & HUMAN RIGHTS

Clash of interests
Cabinet tensions come to the surface - Gerry van Klinken
Human what?
Interview with Marzuki Darusman and Arief Budiman - Krishna Sen
Military human rights manual in Irian Jaya
Evidence of Abri concern about its own human rights abuses
Antithesis of justice
New security treaty offers East Timor nothing - Arthur King

SOCIAL CONDITIONS & THE ECONOMY

Fishing in Australian waters
Appeal for a better deal from Australia - Jill Elliott
Airport rats
A bad experience at Jakarta airport - Agustini Putranto
Children at work
Numbers are huge but official action small - Sharon Bessell
Regulate or abolish?
Interview on child labour with Arist Sirait
Myth of the effective little NGO
Making idealism work is hard - Nori Andriyani

CULTURE

Gay identities
Being homosexual in Indonesia - Dede Oetomo
Waiting for Ngaben
Kuta Beach needs more than a cleanup - Robert Goodfellow

REVIEWS

Robert Cribb & Colin Browns Modern Indonesia: a history since 1945
Seno Gumira Ajidarma, Eyewitness: Protest stories from Indonesia
- Ron Witton
Oei Tjoe Tats Memoar - Melbourne correspondent
Richard Chauvels Nationalists, soldiers, & separatists
The Ambonese Islands from colonialism to revolt, 1880-1950 - Ron Witton

RESOURCES

Newsbriefs
Summary reports on current affairs
Indonesia on the net
Gerry van Klinken
Indonesian media in Australia
Ron Witton
Bookshop

Cover: Arist Merdeka Sirait, co- founder of the Indonesian child rights body KOMPAK, during a visit to Melbourne late 1995 - Wendy Miller