Oct - Dec 2000

Culture

Naked truth
Young artists rebel against the political crisis - M Dwi Marianto
Letter from Makassar
Artists rebuild community identity - Halim HD
Confused?
Directions in post-New Order theatre - Lauren Bain
Punks for peace
Underground music - the voice of young people - Jo Pickles
Of pigs, puppets and protest
Radical Yogyakarta artists get among the people - Heidi Arbuckle
Skin signatures
Tattoos are the fad of today's teenagers - Megan Baker
Meet Semsar
An interview with an artist and activist - Yvonne Owens with Semsar Siahaan
The Theft of Sita
A joint Australian-Indonesian performance bursts boundaries - Robin Laurie

Politics and Human Rights

View from the top
Exclusive interview with the president - Greg Barton with Abdurrahman Wahid
Making Indonesia work for the people
Chusnul Mar'iyah thrives on controversy - Peter King
Busy girl
Chusnul Mar'iyah and the NGO scene - Peter King
Women and the war in Aceh
Women want to silence all the guns - Suraiya Kamaruzzaman
A different freedom
Islamic rebellion in Aceh and Mindanao is not so irrational - Jacqueline Aquino Siapno
Blood on the map
A conference on recent violence in Indonesia - Jemma Purdey

Society and Economy

Land for the landless
Why 'democrats' in Jakarta aren't interested in land reform - Dianto Bachriadi
'Run my child'
Mukti-Mukti sings protest songs about land - Anton Lucas

Travel

One Crater
Sulphur miners risk their lives on an active volcano - Ciaran Harman

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