Oct-Dec 2001

Politics and Human Rights

Ethnic fascism in Borneo
Old elites in Central Kalimantan discover new and dangerous strategies - Gerry van Klinken
Laskar Jihad
A spiritual home for the lost, this militant sect is used by dangerous elites for their own ends - IRIP News Service
Mother of the nation
For now, reformasi is dead. But Mega didn't kill it - Edward Aspinall
Radical or reformist?
How Islamic will the new movements make Indonesia? - Bernhard Platzdasch
The return of 'Shock therapy'
Overseas friends stand by persecuted Acehnese human rights workers - Signe Poulsen

Rewriting history

Whitlam knew
Indonesian military intelligence kept Australia fully informed (and complicit) in its 1975 East Timor invasion plans - Paul Monk
Out of the black hole
After the New Order, the lid on Indonesia's past is beginning to lift - Hilmar Farid
The first Asian boat people
Strange things began to happen when Indonesian refugees came to Australia during World War II - Jan Lingard
Romo Mangun
Tribute to a multi-talented, national figure - Catherine Mills
For kicks
The history of football is a history of Indonesia itself - Freek Colombijn
A soldier's historian
New Order generals needed new history books. Nugroho Notosusanto was their man. - Kate McGregor
The Suharto Museum
What gifts did Aussie prime ministers bestow on President Suharto? - Pam Allen
Merdeka!
Indonesian poems selected by Harry Aveling
Rebel rises from the dead
Sulawesians believe that Qahhar, their rebel hero, has risen again - Andi Faisal Bakti
Untold stories
On the other side of 1965 lay a vibrant Indonesia worth remembering - Ann Laura Stoler

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