Review: Ending the silence

Soe Tjen Marching’s book The End of Silence: Accounts of the 1965 Genocide in Indonesia brings this past trauma into the present.

Review: Identity and pleasure, on screen

Identity and Pleasure: The Politics of Indonesian Screen Culture invites us to embark on a visual journey of difficult episodes in Indonesian history

Essay: Masked but not hidden

A small museum in Java is preserving a storytelling tradition, and the thoughts and feelings behind it

When a history seminar becomes toxic

Attacks on a meeting of survivors of 1965 and their supporters at the offices of the Legal Aid Institute in Jakarta in September 2017 do not bode well for human rights in Indonesia. SASKIA E WIERINGA provides a first-hand account of the events.

Facing history

A witness account of the 2015 International People’s Tribunal on 1965

The Floating School

A mobile school in South Sulawesi offers new horizons to young islanders
Two Acehnese young women hold up colourful protest signs demanding justice for past human rights violations.

Gambling with truth

Aceh’s Commission for Truth and Reconciliation has an important, though delicate, mission ahead

HIV-positive mothers left behind

Married women endure the highest rate of new HIV infection in Indonesia
A sign next to a dirt road reads in Indonesian, ‘Welcome to the territory of the Kiyu customary forest under Constitutional Court Decree No. 35/PUU-X/2012. THIS IS OUR CUSTOMARY FOREST, NOT STATE FOREST.’

Comes with the territory

Compromises must be made in the quest for indigeneity among the Dayak Meratus

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