Papua’s rural lowlands are being transformed by an encroaching global economy, but what happens to the people there is an open question
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Legislating against the supernatural
Indonesia’s parliament is cracking down on sorcery
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Cutting trees, not traditions
The demand for sustainable timber is colliding with the needs of Central Java farmers
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Reviews: Flipping the national story of 1965
Recent ground-breaking publications, an internationally award-winning film and a major conference are opening up new truths about Indonesia’s past
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Review: From the dark side
Jusuf Wanandi’s memoir allows glimpses into the mindset of Suharto-era officialdom
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Review: When perpetrators speak
Joshua Oppenheimer’s groundbreaking new film raises disturbing questions about why perpetrators of the 1965-66 mass killings still enjoy impunity for their actions
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An interview with Joshua Oppenheimer
The filmmaker explains that The Act of Killing exposes the imagination of terror
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Review: An act of manipulation?
Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing is a bold, disturbing and ultimately unsatisfactory exploration of the place of violence in modern Indonesia
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'Truth takes a while, justice even longer'
In 2012 significant new information exposed critical truths about the 1965 massacres in Indonesia, but there remain major obstacles to recovery and reconciliation
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Inside Indonesia: Conception and birth
One of the founders of Inside Indonesia reflects on the origins and earliest days of the magazine
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More than six decades after being inspired as an undergraduate in Sydney, Ron Witton retraces his Indonesian language teacher's journey back to Suriname