Oct-Dec 1996

POLITICS & HUMAN RIGHTS

Megawati: 'Why not a woman president?'
Exclusive interview - Sailendri
What happened before the riots?
The battle between the government and Megawati- Ed Aspinall
A day with Indonesia's radical student organisation
SMID's role in East Timor's embassy fence jumping - Vanessa Hearman
The student movement
A critical reflection - Ariel Heryanto
How might the Suharto era conclude?
A post-Suharto democracy is not certain - Michael van Langenberg
Change in Indonesia, chance for East Timor
Transition could be window of opportunity for Timor - Coki Naipospos
Alternative press challenges information blockade
Unlicensed publications satisfy demand for news - Stanley

SOCIAL CONDITIONS & THE ECONOMY

Information revolution
TV and the Net open Indonesia to the globe - Mark Crawford
Satya Wacana University: an expensive lesson
Campus strife ruins a once great institution - Budi Kurniawan

CULTURE

Punks, rastas & headbangers: Bali's Generation X
Heavy metal in Bali - Emma Baulch
Diany Sinung: from poverty to painting
A successful artist talks about women - Gloria Frydman

ENVIRONMENT

Politics and peat: the one million hectare sawah project
Peat swamp in Kalimantan to become rice fields - IRIP News Service

REVIEWS

Ian MacFarling, The dual function of the Indonesian Armed Forces
Jim McIntosh
Joan Hardjono & Charles Warner, In love with a nation: Molly Bondan and Indonesia
Ron Witton
Astri Wright, Soul spirit and mountain: preoccupations of contemporary Indonesian painters
Alison Taylor

RESOURCES

In this issue
Newsbriefs
Summary reports on current affairs
Indonesia on the net
Gerry van Klinken
Bookshop