Business as usual

Until Gus Dur can bring military business activities under control, they won't go 'back to barracks'

Fireside chat about AIDS

How do you reach illiterate young people at risk from HIV/AIDS? These volunteers take them camping.

In this issue

Democracy: How's it going?

Inside Jepara

Tensions between state, society and business

No longer so 'special'

Keating's 'special' relationship with Jakarta was undemocratic. After East Timor, Howard is right not to rush back.

Scenes from an occupation

Review: A lone Australian filmmaker records East Timor's history-making year of 1999

Sulami explains why

An extract from Sulami's speech at YPKP's first anniversary

The kampung bookshelf

An innovative idea to stimulate reading in the urban village

The slow birth of democracy

Two years after Suharto, authoritarian values remain strong. But new groups are emerging to challenge them.

Wahid, IMF and the people

A young activist jailed under Suharto is stirring more opposition to Wahid too

Where is Wiji Thukul?

The dreadful silence of an outspoken poet

Tapol troubles

When will they end?

A hero passes on

An obituary

Box - The Togian Islands

KATE NAPTHALI falls in love with the Togians, and discovers that health and education are major needs
wife eks tapol1

Despised delight

The Suharto Government's political prisoners have only very rarely been allowed to speak. Here, for the first time, we have an autobiographical story written by a woman, the wife of an ex-tapol, the mother of his child.

Page 65 of 66