While others hope environmentally sensitive tourism will help the Togian Islands, KATE NAPTHALI wants to beef up traditional industries instead.
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Poem from prison
From Sajak-sajak cinta dari balik terali
(Love poems from behind bars)
by Bambang Isti Nugroho,
published by Penerbit Widya Mandala, Yogyakarta, 1994.
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The walking ghosts of West Java
PETER HANCOCK finds that women in a rural Nike factory are considerably worse off than those who work in other factories.
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Amungme dilemma
The Amung way: the subsistence strategies, the knowledge and the dilemma of the Tsinga Valley people in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, PhD thesis, University of Hawaii; Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1995, 509 pages.
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Preventing AIDS
The epidemic is spreading more slowly than once feared, but OCTAVERY KAMIL still wants better resources for prevention work.
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Fading signal
STANLEY fears slashing Radio Australia's Indonesian service will harm Australian diplomacy.
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Gone fishing
AHMAD SOFIAN explores the lives of young people on hundreds of isolated fishing platforms in the Malacca Straits
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Rock'n'Roll radicals
DAVID HILL and KRISHNA SEN scour the music shops. They find that foreign music is now as Indonesian as batik. From Hindi film to 'Indie' punk rock, foreign musical genres are being indigenised, and imbued with Indonesian political meaning.
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Tolerant or opportunist?
Greg Barton and Greg Fealy (eds), Nahdlatul Ulama, traditional Islam and modernity in Indonesia, Clayton: Monash University Asia Institute (http://www.monash.edu.a u/mai), 1996, 294+xxvi pp, Rrp AU$29.95. Reviewed by NELLY VAN DOORN
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Army observed
Robert Lowry, The Armed Forces of Indonesia, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1996, 283 pp.
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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