Oct-Dec 2003

Crisis

Everlasting woes
The economy will not recover under current policies - Roysepta Abimanyu
Alliances against globalisation
New alliances are formed against the IMF and foreign debt - Prijo Wasono
Women in trade unions
No big gains for women workers - Sarah Gardner

Solidarity

Organising Australia - Indonesia solidarity
Street campaigning is crucial to solidarity - Pip Hinman
Australia's engagement with East Timor
East Timor still gets a bad deal from Australia - Vannessa Hearman

Inside Indonesia

Political engagement
Inside Indonesia must go beyond sympathetic reporting and now engage politically with the struggle against neo-liberalism and militarism - Max Lane
Twenty candles for Inside Indonesia
How ever did we get through 20 years? And what does the future hold? - Gerry van Klinken

History Today

17 August 1945
The revolution begun in 1945 must be completed - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The struggle over history
Pramoedya Ananta Toer questions the dominant understanding of Indonesia's historical path - Adrian Vickers

Politics

Anti-insurgency logic in Aceh
Military policy of separating civilians from guerillas generates more resistance - Edward Aspinall
What is the TNI's Aceh agenda?
The TNI wants more than just the defeat of GAM - Carmel Budiardjo

Culture

Moving beyond mutual ignorance
Cultural engagement is yet to reach its full potential - Suzan Piper
NGO theatre in the post New Order
Collaboration between artists and activists is producing new initiatives - Lauren Bain
Women's voices in the arts
Women?s movement activists and artists unite - Max Lane

Regulars

Editorial
Crisis and the politics of engagement - Max Lane
Newsbriefs
Globalisation and Indonesia on the Net
Dissident websites work toward new agendas for the future - Max Lane
Review - Writing at sexuality's margins
A novel by a Yogyakarta writer breaks new ground in discussing sexuality - Duncan Graham